Biography
Soprano
Leah Hawkins
Leah Hawkins is the recipient of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024 Beverly Sills Artist Award and a graduate of their Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Additional honors include the Dallas Symphony’s Women in Classical Music Career Advancement Award and a Richard Tucker Foundation Career Grant.
Highlights of Hawkins’s 2024–25 season include returns to the Metropolitan Opera to cover Leonora in Il trovatore and Arizona Opera for her title role debut in Aïda. On the concert stage, she returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, debuts with the Apollo Orchestra in a concert of Verdi arias, and returns to the Park Avenue Armory for a self-curated recital entitled C’est ainsi que tu es (That is How You Are). Future engagements include debuts with La Monnaie and Dallas Opera, along with further returns to the Met and Philadelphia Orchestra. She makes her San Francisco Symphony debut with this program.
Last season, Hawkins appeared at the Met in Verdi’s Requiem, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Other engagements included Louise/Betty in Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X with both the Met and Seattle Opera. This past spring, she made her role and house debut at Dutch National Opera as Giorgetta in Il tabarro. On the concert stage, she performed Dvořák’s Requiem with American Symphony at Carnegie Hall.
Highlights of Hawkins’s 2024–25 season include returns to the Metropolitan Opera to cover Leonora in Il trovatore and Arizona Opera for her title role debut in Aïda. On the concert stage, she returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, debuts with the Apollo Orchestra in a concert of Verdi arias, and returns to the Park Avenue Armory for a self-curated recital entitled C’est ainsi que tu es (That is How You Are). Future engagements include debuts with La Monnaie and Dallas Opera, along with further returns to the Met and Philadelphia Orchestra. She makes her San Francisco Symphony debut with this program.
Last season, Hawkins appeared at the Met in Verdi’s Requiem, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Other engagements included Louise/Betty in Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X with both the Met and Seattle Opera. This past spring, she made her role and house debut at Dutch National Opera as Giorgetta in Il tabarro. On the concert stage, she performed Dvořák’s Requiem with American Symphony at Carnegie Hall.
