Isabel Leonard as Ada in Cold Mountain
More reviews for Delos artist Isabel Leonard and the Santa Fe Opera World Premiere of Cold Mountain:
“SFO gives the work its grand luxe treatment—no stronger cast could be found. The role of Inman seems made for local hero Nathan Gunn, which it sort-of was. He embodies the tormented hero with pathetic energy and painful sympathy. Mezzo Isabel Leonard sings Ada, a soaring, intimately understood portrait of a lady. Their duets under the stars of Orion define and fulfill an improbable romance.” —John Stege, Santa Fe Reporter
“Isabel Leonard traced Ada’s journey from belle to brave with her soaring, radiant voice. She is a singer who has grown from coloratura to lyric-with-punch, and the Santa Fe Opera has been a crucial factor in that journey.” —Rodney Punt, San Francisco Classical Voice
Isabel Leonard: Preludios at the Opera
Isabel Leonard will be signing her new Preludios recording on August 15th at 6:30pm at the Santa Fe Opera Shop!
In Isabel Leonard’s first release on Delos, she explores the riches of Spanish song, in all its varied Iberian forms and styles that can be traced back as far as its millennium-old Moorish influences. The generous program encompasses pure folksongs, folk-influenced art songs, dances and popular theater songs by quite a few of Spain’s finest composers of the late-19th and 20th-centuries: Mompou, Falla, García Lorca, Sanjuán, Granados and Montsalvatge.
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