During HGO's 2026-27 season, Isabel Leonard performs the role of Julie LaVerne in Show Boat.  Previously for the company, she performed the role of Angelina in Cinderella and served as director of HGO Family Day Presents Cinderella (2024), in addition to performing as Maria in The Sound of Music (2024) and Charlotte in Werther (2022). Elsewhere during the 2026-27 season, Leonard makes her house debut at Teatro Real in Madrid as Rosina in The Barber of Seville and performs as a soloist in the Metropolitan Opera's Diamond Jubilee Gala—60 Years at Lincoln Center. Highlights of the 2025-26 season included her role as Frida in El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego at the Metropolitan Opera. In repertoire that spans from Vivaldi to Mozart to Nico Muhly, Leonard has graced the stages of the Vienna State Opera, Paris Opera, Salzburg Festival, Bavarian State Opera, Carnegie Hall, Glyndebourne Festival, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Aix-en-Provence Festival, The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, LA Opera, and Santa Fe Opera in The Barber of Seville (Rosina), Cinderella (Angelina), The Marriage of Figaro (Cherubino), Così fan tutte (Dorabella), Don Giovanni (Zerlina/Donna Elvira), La clemenza di Tito (Sesto), Werther (Charlotte), Dialogues of the Carmelites (Blanche de la Force), Griselda (Costanza), La bohème (Musetta), Giulio Cesare (Sesto), and the title roles in Carmen, La Périchole, Cendrillon, Marnie, and Der Rosenkavalier. Leonard is a recipient of the Richard Tucker Award and a multiple GRAMMY Award winner, most recently for Best Classical Compendium for Michael Tilson Thomas's From the Diary of Anne Frank on SFS Media (2020), and for Best Opera Recording for L’enfant et les sortilèges on Decca (2016) and The Tempest (2014) from The Metropolitan Opera on Deutsche Grammophon. In 2023, Leonard appeared in the films She Came to Me and the Academy Award-nominated Maestro. She was Rice University Shepherd School of Music’s 2023-24 Aleko Endowed Masterclass Artist.