Anthony León

“American-born Cuban and Colombian tenor, Anthony León, is a young up-and-comer quickly developing an international performing career. His voice has been lauded by Stage and Cinema as possessing “beauty, freedom of tone, and outstanding breath control.” Anthony has received some of the most prestigious honors in the opera industry including being a finalist for the Rising Star award at the 2024 International Opera Awards and a winner of the 2024 Richard Tucker Career Grant. He has also won the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition winner and received the First Prize and the Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Zarzuela Prize at Operalia, 2022, the most important opera competition in the world. Additionally, he has been awarded a Career Development Grant from the Sullivan Foundation. Other accolades include being featured in Opera News magazine and being named “Best up-and-comer” in the Inland Empire Magazine’s “Best of the Best 2019” list, among other important awards.

Anthony has made many important debuts in stages and theaters around the world. Most recent engagements in the 2024 season include debuting Nadir in Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles at Cologne Opera, singing Telemaco in Il ritorno d’Ulisse at the Aix-en-Provence festival, and making debuts with symphony orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony at the Ravinia Festival and the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl with Maestro Gustavo Dudamel. In 2025, he will perform at LA Opera as Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan Tutte and will make his house debut at the Berlin Staatsoper singing Nadir in Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles.”