Carnegie Hall

(NEW YORK, NY; December 23, 2025)—Multi-Grammy Award–winning singer Isabel Leonard has had a career that has brought her to leading opera houses and concert halls around the world. This season, she returns to her native New York, where she curates a four-concert Perspectives series, twenty years after her first appearances at Carnegie Hall.

Ms. Leonard kicks of her Perspectives on Thursday, January 15 at 8:00 p.m., when she welcomes fellow star of the Metropolitan Opera Ryan Speedo Green, and vocalist and actor Jordan Donica (Broadway’s Sunset Boulevard and Camelot, HBO’s The Gilded Age) to Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. Joined by collaborative pianist John Arida, they will perform wide-ranging repertoire drawn from the 1930s and ’40s songbooks of Bernstein, Berlin, Porter, Rodgers, Price, Copland, Weill, and more.

On Wednesday, February 4 at 8:00 p.m., she returns to Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Met Orchestra as soloist in Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Bernstein’s “Somewhere” from the iconic musical West Side Story as part of Carnegie Hall’s citywide festival United in Sound: America at 250.

Ms. Leonard appears alongside fellow Carnegie Hall Artist Trustees on Tuesday, May 5 at 7:00 p.m. for a spectacular gala performance to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Carnegie Hall’s “Concert of the Century.” The evening, to be conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin will also include performances by Emanuel Ax, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Feinstein, Renée Fleming, Evgeny Kissin, Lang Lang, Audra McDonald, and Daniil Trifonov with the NYO-USA All-Stars and Oratorio Society of New York. This historic concert will be heard by listeners around the world as part of the Carnegie Hall Live broadcast and digital series. Produced by WQXR and Carnegie Hall, and co-hosted by WQXR’s Jeff Spurgeon and WNYC’s John Schaefer, the concert will be broadcast on WQXR 105.9 FM in New York and streamed online at wqxr.org and carnegiehall.org/wqxr.

The final event of her Perspectives series on Tuesday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. will be An Evening with Isabel Leonard and Friends, a multifaceted program that incorporates Spanish song, opera, and dance. This Zankel Hall performance will include re-imaginings of some of Ms. Leonard’s most celebrated roles, choreography by flamenco dancer Sonia Olla, music performed by flamenco singer Ismael Fernández, and more.

About Isabel Leonard
Since making her 2007 debut as Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette, Isabel Leonard has remained one of the Metropolitan Opera’s most treasured artists. She was the 2011 recipient of the Beverly Sills Artist Award, established by Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman, and has appeared with the company in more than 150 performances, including as the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, the title roles of Cinderella, Carmen, and Nico Muhly’s Marnie, Blanche de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Charlotte in Werther, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, and Miranda in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest. She has also appeared in seven of the company’s Live in HD cinema transmissions.

Additional recent performance highlights include an appearance as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at LA Opera; the title role in Songbird, an adaptation of Offenbach’s La Périchole, at Washington National Opera; Maria in The Sound of Music at Houston Grand Opera; and the title role of La Cenerentola at the Bavarian State Opera.

A three-time Grammy Award winner (of five nominations) and recipient of the 2013 Richard Tucker Award, she has also appeared at La Scala, Dutch National Opera, Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Paris Opera, Salzburg Festival, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Glyndebourne Festival, Opera Philadelphia, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. She starred as Ada Monroe in the world premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain at the Santa Fe Opera in 2015. On the concert stage, she has performed with The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony, among others. Ms. Leonard currently serves as an Artist Trustee on Carnegie Hall’s Board of Trustees.

Program Information

Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Isabel Leonard and Friends
Isabel Leonard, Mezzo-Soprano
John Arida, Piano

with
Jordan Donica, Vocalist
Ryan Speedo Green, Bass-Baritone

The Songs of Bernstein, Berlin, and Beyond

AARON COPLAND "Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?" from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
SAMMY FAIN "I'll Be Seeing You" from Right This Way
KURT WEILL "My Ship" from Lady in the Dark
AARON COPLAND "Heart, We Will Forget Him!" from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
JEROME KERN "The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time (arr. Isabel Leonard and John Arida)
IRVING BERLIN "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)" from Annie Get Your Gun
AARON COPLAND "The Boatmen's Dance" from Old American Songs, Set 1
MARGARET BONDS "I, Too" from Three Dream Portraits
AARON COPLAND "The Dodger" from Old American Songs, Set 1
AARON COPLAND "Simple Gifts" from Old American Songs, Set 1
FLORENCE PRICE "Songs to the Dark Virgin"
LEONARD BERNSTEIN "New York, New York" from On the Town (arr. James Lowe)
RICHARD RODGERS "Many a New Day" from Oklahoma!
RICHARD RODGERS "If I Loved You" from Carousel
GEORGES BIZET "Dis Flower" from Carmen Jones (arr. Robert Russell Bennett)
FREDERICK LOEWE "Come to Me, Bend to Me" from Brigadoon
COLE PORTER "Where Is the Life That Late I Led?" from Kiss Me, Kate
RICHARD RODGERS "Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific
LEONARD BERNSTEIN "I'm a Person Too" from I Hate Music: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs
LEONARD BERNSTEIN "Lonely Town" from On the Town
KURT WEILL "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" from One Touch of Venus
MACK DAVID / AL HOFFMAN / JERRY LIVINGSTON "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" from Cinderella (arr. Isabel Leonard and John Arida)
LEONARD BERNSTEIN "Some Other Time" from On the Town

The Annual Joan and Sanford I. Weill Tribute Concert

Support for this program is provided by the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
The Met Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director and Conductor
Isabel Leonard, Vocalist

WILLIAM DAWSON Negro Folk Symphony
SAMUEL BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24
LEONARD BERNSTEIN "Somewhere" from West Side Story
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Fancy Free

Lead support for United in Sound: America at 250 is provided by Hope and Robert F. Smith and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Major Corporate Sponsor: Bank of America

Additional support provided by the Hearst Foundations.

Support for this program is provided by the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
50th Anniversary of the Concert of the Century
NYO-USA All-Stars
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
Renée Fleming, Soprano
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-Soprano
Isabel Leonard, Mezzo-Soprano
Audra McDonald, Vocalist
Michael Feinstein, Vocalist and Piano
Emanuel Ax, Piano
Evgeny Kissin, Piano
Lang Lang, Piano
Daniil Trifonov, Piano
Oratorio Society of New York
Kent Tritle, Director
Additional artists to be announced

A Gala Evening at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall celebrates the 50th anniversary of its “Concert of the Century” by presenting a once-in-a-lifetime, star-studded performance. Join us in commemorating one of the most legendary events in Carnegie Hall's history.
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Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Zankel Hall
An Evening with Isabel Leonard and Friends
Isabel Leonard, Vocalist
Ismael Fernández, Vocalist
Sonia Olla, Dancer
Pianist to be announced

The multilingual and multiple Grammy-winning Isabel Leonard leads a concert of Spanish song, opera, and dance. The program includes re-imaginings of some of Leonard’s most celebrated roles, choreography by and featuring flamenco dancer Sonia Olla, music performed by flamenco singer Ismael Fernández, and more.

Support for this program is provided by the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund.

This concert and the Pure Voice series are sponsored by the Jean & Jula Goldwurm Memorial Foundation in memory of Jula Goldwurm.

 

 

Ticket Information

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