Three-time Grammy Award–winning artist Isabel Leonard has established herself as one of the most in demand performers as a star on the world’s leading stages and screens. The 2023 – 2024 season sees Ms. Leonard’s debut with the Bayersiche Staatsoper as Angelina in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s production of La Cenerentola, and a return to Los Angeles Opera to sing the roles of Donna Elvira in the Kasper Holton production of Don Giovanni as well as her signature role of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia. She also returns to Houston Grand Opera for her role debut as Maria in Francesca Zamebllo’s production of The Sound of Music, and to Washington National Opera to reprise her appearance as the title character in Offenbach’s La Périchole. Concert work includes opening the Dallas Symphony’s season in a special gala performance with Emanuel Aix, an appearance hosting Palm Beach Opera’s season gala, and a live recording of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with Gustavo Gimeno conducting the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Additional concert appearances include Ravel’s Schéhérazade with both the New World Symphony and longtime collaborator Stéphane Denève and with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, and an 11-city concert tour with renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. Ms. Leonard also appears in recital with Pablo Sáinz Villegas at the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, reprising their program of songs in Spanish.

The 2022 – 2023 season saw Ms. Leonard’s house debut at Teatro alla Scala as Miranda in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest, as well as her house debut at Houston Grand Opera to sing Charlotte in Werther, conducted by Robert Spano. Continuing her long-time collaboration with Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra music director Stéphane Denève, she appears as Marguerite in a concert performance of Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust, and appeared in a tour of South America for concerts at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Orquestra Acadêmica Mozarteum Brasileiro, in São Paulo, and at Teatro Positivo in Curitiba, Brazil. Ms. Leonard also performed a concert of arias with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal at the 56,000 seat Parque Olympique. In the recital hall, Ms. Leonard partners with Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas for performances with Lincoln Center Presents the Metropolitan Opera at Alice Tully Hall, LA Opera at the Colburn School, San Diego Opera at the La Jolla Music Society, the Harris Theatre in Chicago, and the Conservatorìo de Música de Puerto Rico. Ms. Leonard also joined renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli on a five-city concert tour in arenas across the United States.

Eleri Ward is a New York City–based actor, singer, songwriter, and musician. In 2021, she recorded and produced her full length indie-folk Sondheim album, A Perfect Little Death, in her closet. After gaining a viral TikTok following, it was released by Ghostlight Records and has been hailed as “a harmonious marriage of musical theater and indie folk music, with hauntingly beautiful arrangements” by Forbes and “an incandescent new record, something genuinely new” by American Theater Magazine. Coming off a triumphant national summer tour opening for global superstar Josh Groban, she released Keep A Tender Distance, the sublimely introspective follow-up to A Perfect Little Death, in 2022. According to the New York Times, “Ward plumbs this deep well in a way that feels so intuitively right, it’s remarkable no one has done it before.” Since then, Eleri has complete multiple legs of her own solo tour, celebrating her Sondheim albums, including her live album Acoustic Sondheim: Live from Brooklyn released in 2023, as well as having made her Off-Broadway debut in Only Gold at MCC Theater and performed in many concerts including MCC’s Miscast and the Williamstown Theatre Festival Cabaret. She studied songwriting at Berklee College of Music before transferring and graduating from the Boston Conservatory with a BFA in musical theater with an emphasis in songwriting and acting, and has since consistently explored the lines between theater and music through her unique interpretive lens. www.eleriward.com @eleriward

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