Leah crocetto biography

She is a Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and was the First Place Winner, People's Choice and the Spanish Prize Winner.
American soprano Leah Crocetto continues to astonish audiences with her moving portrayals of opera's greatest heroines.
LC: I was born in South Carolina, and in my baby years we moved to Connecticut, where my family is from, and then on to Michigan.

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Leah Crocetto

The renowned American soprano returned last season to Washington National Opera (Desdemona/Otello) followed by performances at Palm Beach Opera (Liù/Turandot) and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Verdi Requiem). With Seattle Opera, she portrayed Leonora/Il trovatore and then debuted with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Verdi’s Requiem, which she has also sung with the major orchestras of Chicago, Los Angeles, Calgary, Columbus, and Albany. Crocetto’s eminence in Verdi has been confirmed by successes in Il trovatore (Bordeaux, Verona, Frankfurt), Otello (Frankfurt, Venice, also on the Teatro La Fenice’s tour of Japan), Luisa Miller (San Francisco, Tel Aviv), Aida (San Francisco, Seattle), and Falstaff (Frankfurt). She has also starred in bel canto repertoire, such as Maometto II (Santa Fe Opera), L’assedio di Calais (Glimmerglass Festival, U.S. premiere), Semiramide (Opéra National de Bordeaux) and Norma (North Carolina Opera). Among her successes in concert has been Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, notably with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and t

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Described by The New York Times as possessing an “agile coloratura technique and a feeling for the Italianate style… with warmth, full penetrating sound and tenderness,” American soprano Leah Crocetto continues to astonish audiences with her moving portrayals of opera’s greatest heroines.

The 2022/23 season for Ms. Crocetto began with her San Diego Symphony debut in Giuseppe Verdi’s breathtaking Requiem under the baton of Rafael Payare. She also returned to the Metropolitan Opera and Opera Australia as Aida, receiving critical acclaim from the Sydney Morning Herald raving, “Leah Crocetto as Aida has a voice of enveloping power and warmth” and Theatre Travels saying, “She is beautiful and effervescent in this role. Her rendition of “O, Patria mia” was soul-stirringly good.”

She made her debut as the fiendish role of Odabella in Attila at Teatro Petruzelli. In recital, she appeared at the Butler School of Music in Austin, Texas, where she is currently on faculty as a Lecturer in Vocal Arts. Leah also toured with her newly founded duo Momenti, featuring pianist Ronny Mi

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Leah Crocetto

Leah Crocetto is a grammy award winning, internationally acclaimed soprano. Recently, Ms Crocetto performed Leonora in a new production of Verdi’s il Trovatore for Opera Australia, as well as Margarita in Boito’s Mefistofele, alongside Ferruccio Furlanetto. She has performed many great opera works in some of the most prestigious opera houses across the globe, including Verdi’s Otello (Desdemona), Il Trovatore (Leonora), Don Carlo (Elizabetta), Aida (Aida), Luisa Miller (Luisa), Falstaff (Alice Ford), Puccini”s Tosca, La Boheme (Mimi), Turandot (Liu), Rossinni’s Maometto Secondo (Anna), Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites (Mdm Lidoine), Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Donna Anna), at such opera houses as The Metropolitan Opera, Opera Australia, San Francisco Opera, Opera Frankfurt, English National Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Washington National Opera, Fondazione di Petruzelli, Teatro La Fenice, Opera National de Bordeaux, Arena di Verona, Settle Opera, to name a few. Ms Crocetto is also no stranger to the concert stage, she h