Leah Gordon
Leah Gordon completed her Master of Music in Performance with honours at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England. She participated in the Opera Programme at the Banff Centre for Performing Arts in Alberta, Canada, the St. Andrews-by-the-Sea Opera Programme in New Brunswick, Canada, the 38th International Music Opera Course at the Janáček Academy in Brno, Czech Republic and the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in Aldeburgh, England.
She was discovered at the age of 24 and gave her debut at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen. There she sang roles such as Musette, Adele, Zerlina, Frasquita, La Folie in Platée, Comtesse in Le Comte Ory, Inès in L'Africaine and the title role in Mercadante's Zaira.
At the Nuremberg State Theatre she has appeared in roles such as Pamina, Blondchen, Juliette in Tote Stadt, Folleville in Viaggio a Reims, Medora in Corsaro, Micaëla, Marie in Fille du régiment, Anaï in Moïse et Pharaon, Mathilde, Marguerite in Les Huguenots, Rachel in La Juive, Leïla, Donna Anna, Konstanze, Contessa in Nozze di Figaro and Elettra in Idomeneo.
Guest engagements have taken her to the Musiktheater Essen, Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, Nationaltheater Weimar, Opernhaus Wuppertal, Stadttheater Gießen, Theater Erfurt, Theater Kiel and Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern.
Recent and future engagements in the 2024/25 season include the 1st Lady in Die Zauberflöte at the Munich State Opera, in Magdeburg and Chemnitz, Elvira in Ernani and Elisabeth in Tannhäuser at the Heidenheim Opera Festival, Gertrud in Hänsel und Gretel in Coburg, Amelia in Ballo in Maschera and Liù in Chemnitz. Neues Land, neue Sprache in Dessau, Donna Anna and Eva in Meistersinger at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Elisabeth de Valois in Don Carlos in Liège, Saarbrücken, Bern and Basel. Desdemona in Cottbus, Rosalinde in the Cologne Philharmonie, a song recital in Verona, Fidelio Leonore and Santuzza at the Lech Classic Festival, Tannhäuser Elisabeth in Modena and Reggio Emilia, 9th Beethoven in Nuremberg, Ballo Amelia in Oldenburg. Ernani in Antwerp, Elisabetta in Don Carlo in Heidenheim and Turandot in Piacenza, Ravenna, and Modena.
She has sung recitals and concerts for the Aldeburgh Connection in Toronto and London, Dvorák's Stabat Mater with the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra, Handel's Israel in Egypt with Pax Christi Chorale in Toronto, Haydn's Creation with the Charlton Kings Choral Society London, and Handel's Messiah with the East Surrey Choral Society. She has performed as a soloist with Helmut Rilling at the International Bach Festival, with Christian Curnyn in Charpentier's Le Malade Imaginaire, with Harry Bicket in Purcell's Faery Queen and with Kevin Mallon's Aradia Ensemble in Charpentier's Messe de Minuit pour Noël and Te Deum, which was recorded on the Naxos label. She recorded Ernani with Marcus Bosch on the Coviello Classics label.