Isabel Leonard Wins Metropolitan Opera’s Beverly Sills Award
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Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard has been named the recipient of the sixth annual Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers at the Metropolitan Opera.
The $50,000 award, the largest of its kind in the United States, is designated for extraordinarily gifted singers between the ages of 25 and 40 who have already appeared in featured solo roles at the Met.
Leonard’s credits at the Met include Roméo et Juliette, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Così fan tutte. In the 2011-12 season, she will sing Zerlina in a new production of Don Giovanni by Tony Award winner Michael Grandage and make her house role debut as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
Her previous honors include the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Award and the Marilyn Horne Foundation Award, and she was among the winners of the Giulio Gari Competition in 2005.
