Anthony León
About this Artist
American-born Cuban and Colombian tenor Anthony León has rapidly emerged as one of today’s leading young opera singers. León was a finalist for the Rising Star award at the 2024 International Opera Awards and a winner of the 2024 Richard Tucker Career Grant. He was a 2023 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition winner and received First Prize and the Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Zarzuela Prize at Operalia, 2022. Additionally, he was awarded a Career Development Grant from The Sullivan Foundation.
In 2025/26, Léon makes a house and role debut at the Teatro Regio Torino singing Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, a role he also sings for his house debut at Glyndebourne. He makes his house debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Ferrando in Così fan tutte and returns to Los Angeles Opera for his role debut as Fenton in Falstaff. On the concert stage he sings Estévez’s Cantata Criolla with the LA Phil and Gustavo Dudamel and Handel’s Messiah with the Toronto Symphony.
In 2024/25, León sang Nadir in Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles for his debut at the Berlin Staatsoper, Lysander in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Ferrando at LA Opera. León also appeared at Cologne Opera and the Aix-en-Provence Festival and made debuts with the Chicago Symphony and the LA Phil. He was The Consumer in the world premiere of Ellen Reid’s opera The Shell Trial at Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam.
León was a member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program at LA Opera and an Apprentice Artist at Santa Fe Opera. He holds a Bachelor of Music from La Sierra University and a Master of Music degree concentrating in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he was awarded the Wendy Shattuck ’75 Presidential Scholarship in Vocal Studies, studying under Bradley Williams.