Leah Partridge
Vocalists
— Soprano
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Manager: William G. Guerri
Management Territory: Worldwide
Partridge was most effective in Cleopatra's big set pieces, bringing great expressive depth and shading to 'Piangero la sorte mia', and, especially, a spacious, heart-breaking 'Se pieta, di me non senti' that reduced the vast Ziff audience to silence. —Lawrence A. Johnson - Miami Herald
Her slender figure elegantly costumed, the shining soprano Leah Partridge made it through the killer role of Constanze with clarity, accuracy and poise. —Opera Magazine
Partridge's soprano is an instrument of lithe flexibility and warm beauty. —Detroit Free Press
About
American soprano Leah Partridge has received consistent praise for her virtuosic technique and dramatic insight. She has made some of the great bel canto roles her own, and her career already includes many performances of the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Violetta in La Traviata, and Gilda in Rigoletto.
Ms. Partridge begins the 2009–2010 as Adina in L’elisir d’amore with Atlanta Opera and performs a recital for the Macon Concert Association. She returns to the Metropolitan Opera for productions of La fille du regiment, Il Barbiere di Siviglia . . . , and Hamlet and makes her company debut as Violetta Valéry in La traviata with Opera Company of Philadelphia.
Ms. Partridge opened the 2008–2009 season at Deutsche Oper Berlin singing Gilda in Rigoletto. She traveled to Washington, DC, to sing the title role in Maria Padilla with Washington Concert Opera followed by a return to the Metropolitan Opera where she was heard as La Charmeuse in Thaïs. She returned to Florida Grand Opera in the title role of Lakmé as well as a Superstar Series concert with Marcello Giordani. She finished the season with performances of Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Opera North.
In the 2007-08 season Leah Partridge made her Metropolitan Opera debut singing the First Niece in a new production of Britten’s Peter Grimes. Ms. Partridge returned to Detroit to sing Roxane in the world premiere of David DiChiera’s Cyrano with Michigan Opera Theatre and appeared in concert with the Macon Symphony Orchestra in a program featuring Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915 and a selection of operatic arias. She also performed Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with the Augusta Symphony Orchestra. After celebrated performances of Amina in Bellini’s La Sonnambula in the 2006-07 season, Ms. Partridge returned to Florida Grand Opera as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare. She concluded the season with a concert in Dresden.
