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Soprano Marjorie Leake has wonderfully risen to the task in recent high visibility engagements in New York City, when in 2010 she sang the role of Chrysothemis with One World Symphony in their Manhattan production of Richard Strauss' Elektra, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of that opera's premiere, under the baton of music director Sung Jin Hong. As her return engagement, she just recently appeared again with One World Symphony, this time assuming the title role in Samuel Barber’s Vanessa.
Opera companies where she has performed include the Central City
Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, The New Orleans Opera Association, Ash
Lawn-Highland Summer Festival, Cincinnati Opera and the Zürich
Opera. While a member of the International Opera Center in Zürich,
she appeared in concert throughout Switzerland and Germany and sang
the roles of Fidalma in Il Matrimonio Segreto and Die Eule in
Das Schlaue Füchslein. In addition to her duties with the
Opera Center, she performed as a soloist with the Zürich
Bach
Choir.
With the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra of New Orleans,
Marjorie was featured as soprano soloist in Mozart’s Great Mass
in C Minor, and Bernstein’s Songfest. In New York, she
has been presented in recital at St. Paul’s Chapel as part of the
Trinity Noonday Concerts. She also performed with several arts/opera
outreach organizations including Young Audiences of Massachusetts in
Boston, New Orleans Opera's "Metropelican Opera" and the Cincinnati
Opera's ECCO program. As a resident artist with the Cincinnati
Opera, she sang the roles of The Mother in Amahl and the Night
Visitors and Mercedes in Carmen.
Marjorie has sung the title role in Suor Angelica with New
Jersey’s Garden State Opera and the role of Nedda in
I
Pagliacci with the Henry Street Opera in New York City. A
native of New Orleans, Marjorie is a graduate of Tulane University
and received her Masters degree from The New England Conservatory of
Music. Marjorie currently lives in New York where she studies with
Bill Schuman.
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