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Mezzo soprano Leah Giselle Field is noted for her versatility as a vocalist and the strength of her dramatic presence. A graduate of Vancouver Opera’s Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program, she is a Vancouver Opera Foundation Amatori bursary recipient and district winner and regional finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She holds degrees from the University of Western Ontario and the University of British Columbia.
Recent performances include Handel’s Messiah, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Vancouver Bach Choir, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, Eugene Onegin, Le Nozze di Figaro and Hansel and Gretel with Vancouver Opera, and productions of Luisa Miller, Suor Angelica, Cendrillon, and Aida in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia. Upcoming engagements include ... appearances in the Vancouver Opera Chamber Music Festival, with the VSO School of Music Choral Masterworks, and the Vancouver Bach Choir.
Leah has sung in North America, Europe, and China in opera, recital, and with orchestras and chamber ensembles. She has performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Sea to Sky Symphony, the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Toronto, the West Coast Symphony, and the UBC Symphony Orchestra, and as a recitalist throughout British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario.
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2019/2020 Season



May 2019
Debussy
Trois Chansons de Bilitis
Vancouver Opera Chamber Music Festival
Vancouver
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From Opera to Musical Theatre: Leah Giselle Field Repertoire
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- Mrs. Herring - Albert Herring
- Lucretia - The Rape of Lucretia
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- Eugenia - Miracle Flight 571
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- Gertude, Witch - Hansel and Gretel
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- Jennie - Higglety Pigglety Pop!
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- Cesare, Cornelia - Giuilio Cesare
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- Marcellina - Le Nozze di Figaro
- Dritte Dame - Die Zauberflöte
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- Suzuki - Madama Butterfly
- La Zia Principessa - Suor Angelica
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- Federica - Luisa Miller
- Emilia - Otello
- Amneris - Aida
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- Marthe - Faust
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- Madame de la Haltière - Cendrillon
- Rosette - Manon
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- Old Prioress - Dialogues des Carmélites
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- Julie Riel - Louis Riel
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- Herodias - Salome
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- Erda, Flosshilde - Das Rheingold
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- Larina - Eugene Onegin
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- Six Maritime Folksongs
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- Amor - Cabaret Songs, Volume 1
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- Winter Words in a Dark Love Song
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- Sea Pictures
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- I Never Saw Another Butterfly
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- Silent Noon
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- La Mort d’Ophélie
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- Nuit d’étoiles
- Trois Chansons de Bilitis
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- Extase
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- Mandoline
- Claire de Lune
- Chanson D’Amour
- Après un Reve
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- Rêverie
- Le Rossignol des lillas
- A Chloris
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- Als Luise die Briefe- K. 520
- Oiseaux, si Tous les Ans- K.284d
- Dans un Bois Solitaire- K.295b
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- Tel Jour, Telle Nuit
- La Courte Paille
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- Je ne t'aime pas
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- Op. 61
- Sapphische Ode, Op. 94, no.4
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- Die Lorelei, S. 273
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- Fünf Rückert-Lieder
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- Op. 63
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- Wanderers Nachtlied II
- Suleika I
- An die Musik
- Der Tod und das Mädchen
- Die Abgeblühte Linde
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- Erste Begegnung
- Die Lotosblume
- Widmung
- Frauenliebe und Leben
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- Deux Melodies Hebraïques
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- Rachav ha yam (The water is wide)
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- Op. 4, no. 3, 4, and 6
- Op. 14, no. 1, 2, and 11
- Op. 21, no. 5
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- From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79
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- Mass in B Minor
- Magnificat
- BWV 82
- BWV 147
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- Choral Fantasy
- Symphony No. 9
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- Requiem
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- Messiah
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- Symphony No. 8
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- St. Paul, Op. 36
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- Messa da Requiem
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- Madame Thernardier
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- Mrs.Lovett
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- Witch
Radiating both towering rage and icy removal, contralto Leah Giselle Field creates the complete emotional backdrop of the opera in her fifteen minute scena, the power of her dramatic presence matched only by her riveting singing.
- Siri Wayans, musicont.com
Leah Giselle Field’s sassiness and enthusiasm helps make the role of Marcellina likeable, quite a feat for a role that is overly bitchy in the first half of the show.
- vancityvince.com
Musically, the cast was excellent across the board- Leah Giselle Field and Peter Monaghan impressive as Gertrude and Peter, Field deploying a highly promising dramatic mezzo.
- bachtrack.com
The vocal highlights of the afternoon belonged to mezzo soprano Leah Giselle Field.
- VanWeekly.ca
Field is the consummate singing-actor
- musicvan.com
With soaring tone and spectacular low notes, mezzo soprano Leah Giselle Field is a singer to watch.
- VanWeekly.ca
Field’s sumptuous mezzo is a rare treat, harkening back to classic recordings of Maureen Forrester and Janet Baker.
- VanWeekly.ca
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leah_field@yahoo.co.uk