Leah Crocetto
Leah Crocetto began the 2022/23 season with her San Diego Symphony debut in Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem under the baton of Rafael Payare. She also returned to the Metropolitan Opera and Opera Australia as Aida.
She made her debut as the diabolical Odabella in Attila at the Teatro Petruzelli. She has performed in concert at the Butler School of Music in Austin, Texas, where she is currently a vocal arts instructor. Leah also toured with her newly formed Trio Momenti with bass-baritone Christian Pursell and pianist Ronny Michael Greenberg for their first concerts in San Francisco, Napa, and her hometown of Adrian, Michigan.
In the 2021/22 season Leah Crocetto made her Toledo Opera debut as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, Teatro Petruzzelli in the title role of Aida and Washington Concert Opera as Anna in Rossini's Maometto II. She also returned to Opera Australia where she reprised Leonora in Il trovatore at the Sydney Opera House and was later heard as Margherita in concert performances of Boïto's Mefistofele in Melbourne. To celebrate the return of live performances she appeared in concert at The Croswell in Adrian, Michigan, and gave a recital with her long-time partner, pianist Mark Markham, at the Lexington Bach Festival.
In the 2020/21 season, Leah Crocetto made her debut with Opera Australia, performing the title role in Davide Livermore's production of Aida. In the same season, her recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic was released by Deutsche Grammophon.
On the concert stage, Leah performed the lead role in Citizens of Song's 'Christmas from Afar' event with over 25 acts and approximately 400 artists from around the world. She was the featured artist in the Merola Opera Program's virtual benefit concert 'Un Gala in Maschera' in honour of Sheri Greenawald. She also held several teaching positions during the 2020/21 season, including at the University of Texas, Siena Heights University, Potomac Vocal Institute, and Washington National Opera.
Leah Crocetto has strong ties to the Italian opera repertoire of Verdi and Puccini. She made her European debut as Leonora in Il Trovatore at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, followed by debuts at the Arena di Verona and North Carolina Opera. Her first appearances were in Venice as Desdemona in Otello at the Teatro la Fenice. She reprised the role on her tour of Japan and for her house debut at Frankfurt Opera. She made her debut at the Israeli Opera as Luisa Miller, and as Suor Angelica and Liù in Turandot at San Francisco Opera and sang her first appearances as Anna in Rossini's Maometto II at the Santa Fe Opera in a new production by David Alden.
On the concert stage, Crocetto has sung Verdi's Requiem with Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, and with the Calgary Philharmonic, Columbus Symphony, and Albany Symphony Orchestra. She sang Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater in concert with the San Francisco Opera and Nicola Luisotti and Mahler's Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' at the Grand Tetons Music Festival with Donald Runnicles. She returned to her hometown for a gala concert of opera and music theatre with the Adrian Symphony Orchestra and performed in a gala opera concert with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. She appeared in a Schwabacher concert at the San Francisco Opera and sang Handel's 'Messiah' in Anchorage.
Career highlights include her debut in the title role as Aida, the title role of Luisa Miller, Liù in Turandot and Mimì in La bohème with San Francisco Opera; Aida and Madame Lidoine in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites with Washington National Opera; Aida with Seattle Opera; her debut as Alice Ford in Falstaff and Leonora in Il trovatore at Oper Frankfurt; her role and house debut as Mimì in La bohème and Tosca at Pittsburgh Opera; her role debut as Eleonora in the first US performances of Donizetti's L'assedio di Calais at the Glimmerglass Festival; Desdemona in Otello and her role debut as the title character in Rossini's Semiramide at the Opera National de Bordeaux; Anna in Maometto II with the Canadian Opera Company; Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Santa Fe Opera; Desdemona in Otello with English National Opera; and Elisabetta di Valois in a new production of Don Carlo at Opera Philadelphia.
Other concert highlights include Verdi's magnificent Requiem and Handel's Messiah with the National Symphony; Verdi's Requiem with the NTR Symphony, San Francisco Opera and the Rundfunkorchester Saarbrücken, Germany; a concert of Verdi's sacred works with the Orchestre National de France conducted by Daniele Gatti; a solo recital with pianist Mark Markham at the John F. Kennedy Center; her New York recital debut at Pace University with pianist Martin Katz; Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall; and concerts in Ann Arbor and her hometown of Adrian, Michigan.