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Canadian Contralto 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 Cavalleria Rusticana, Eugene Onegin, Le Nozze di Figaro and Hansel and Gretel with Vancouver Opera, recitals with pianists Leslie Dala and Richard Epp, Handel’s Messiah, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Vancouver Bach Choir, appearances in the Vancouver Opera Chamber Music Festival and the VSO School of Music Choral Masterworks, and productions of Luisa Miller, Suor Angelica, Cendrillon, and Aida in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia. Upcoming engagements include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Vancouver Bach Choir and West Coast Symphony Orchestra, and recitals in British Columbia and Ontario.

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 Orchestra, and the UBC Symphony Orchestra, and as a recitalist throughout British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario.

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calendar performances

2022/2021 Seasons

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Oct 2022

Beethoven

Symphony No. 9

West Coast Symphony Orchestra

Vancouver

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Feb 2022

Cavalleria Rusticana

Vancouver Opera

Vancouver

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Oct 2021

Into the Shimmering

Müsewest Concerts

Vancouver

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Oct 2021

Erste Begegnung

Vancouver Opera Chamber Music Series

Vacouver

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March 2020

Beethoven

Symphony No. 9

Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony

Vancouver

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Feb 2020

Music for Queen Caroline

Players and Singers

Vancouver

Poster for the opera Eugene Opegin, featuring a man and a woman. The man is dressed in a coat with a fur lapel. He is shaded darkly, and his eyebrows are bright orange. The woman's skin is painted white like marble. She has yellow flowers in her haiir and she is holding an orange envelope, matching the orange shade of the man's eyebrows.

Dec 2019

Handel

The Messiah

Choral Connection

St. Thomas, ON

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Jun 2019

Beethoven

Symphony No.9

Vancouver Bach Choir

Vancouver

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Jun 2019

BWV 147

VSO School of Music Choral Masterworks

Vancouver

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May 2019

Debussy

Trois Chansons de Bilitis

Vancouver Opera Chamber Music Festival

Vancouver

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Mar 2019

Massenet

Cendrillon

Windsor Symphony

Windsor

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May 2018

Shostakovich

Op. 79

Vancouver Opera Chamber Music Festival

Vancouver

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Apr 2018

Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin

Vancouver Opera

Vancouver

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Feb 2018

Mahler

Symphony No. 8

Vancouver Bach Choir

Vancouver

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Nov 2017

Verdi

Messa da Requiem

Vancouver Bach Choir

Vancouver

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Apr 2017

Mozart

Le Nozze di Figaro

Vancouver Opera

Vancouver

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Nov 2016

Humperdinck

Hansel and Gretel

Vancouver Opera

Vancouver

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past performances

in repertoire

From Opera to Musical Theatre: Leah Giselle Field Repertoire

    • Mrs. Herring - Albert Herring
    • Lucretia - The Rape of Lucretia
    • Hippolyta - A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • Eugenia - Miracle Flight 571
    • Little Buttercup - HMS Pinafore
    • Cesare, Cornelia - Giuilio Cesare
    • Gertude, Witch - Hansel and Gretel
    • Jennie - Higglety Pigglety Pop!
    • Old Prioress - Dialogues des Carmélites
    • Suzuki - Madama Butterfly
    • La Zia Principessa - Suor Angelica
    • Federica - Luisa Miller
    • Emilia - Otello
    • Amneris - Aida
    • Marthe - Faust
    • Mama Lucia - Cavalleria Rusticana
    • Madame de la Haltière - Cendrillon
    • Rosette - Manon
    • Marcellina - Le Nozze di Figaro
    • Dritte Dame - Die Zauberflöte
    • Julie Riel - Louis Riel
    • Herodias - Salome
    • Erda, Flosshilde - Das Rheingold
    • Mary - Der fliegende Holländer
    • Larina - Eugene Onegin
    • Vier Lieder
    • Fünf Lieder
    • Spring Rhapsody
    • La Mort d’Ophélie
    • Six Maritime Folksongs
    • Amor - Cabaret Songs, Volume 1
    • Op. 61
    • Sapphische Ode, Op. 94, no.4
    • Winter Words in a Dark Love Song
    • Sea Pictures
    • I Never Saw Another Butterfly
    • Silent Noon
    • The House of Life
    • Songs of Travel
    • Nuit d’étoiles
    • Trois Chansons de Bilitis
    • L’âme en bourgeon
    • Extase
    • Mandoline
    • Claire de Lune
    • Chanson D’Amour
    • Après un Reve
    • Forever
    • Night
    • Songs to the Dark Virgin
    • Travel's End
    • Rêverie
    • Le Rossignol des lillas
    • A Chloris
    • Tel Jour, Telle Nuit
    • La Courte Paille
    • Je ne t'aime pas
    • Die Lorelei, S. 273
    • Fünf Rückert-Lieder
    • Drei Duette auf Texte von Heinrich Heine
    • Op. 63
    • Als Luise die Briefe- K. 520
    • Oiseaux, si Tous les Ans- K.284d
    • Dans un Bois Solitaire- K.295b
    • Wanderers Nachtlied II
    • Suleika I
    • An die Musik
    • Der Tod und das Mädchen
    • Die Abgeblühte Linde
    • 3 Gedichte aus Rückerts Liebesfrühling
    • Erste Begegnung
    • Die Lotosblume
    • Widmung
    • Frauenliebe und Leben
    • 3 Gedichte aus Rückerts Liebesfrühling
    • Op. 4, no. 3, 4, and 6
    • Op. 14, no. 1, 2, and 11
    • Op. 21, no. 5
    • Deux Melodies Hebraïques
    • Rachav ha yam (The water is wide)
    • From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79
    • Requiem for Judith
    • Mass in B Minor
    • Magnificat
    • BWV 82
    • BWV 147
    • Choral Fantasy
    • Symphony No. 9
    • Requiem
    • Messiah
    • Symphony No. 8
    • St. Paul, Op. 36
    • Vesprae Solemnes
    • Messa da Requiem
    • Madame Thernardier
    • Mrs. Lovett
    • Witch
  • Mrs. Herring - Albert Herring
  • Lucretia - The Rape of Lucretia

press and news

The part of Mama Lucia is little more than a series of cameos, but Leah Giselle Field acquitted herself admirably.

- David Gordon Duke. Review: Vancouver Opera’s good fortune continues with Cavalleria rusticana, February 2022

Leah Giselle Field’s mezzo stood out as the most suitable for cutting through the big sound of the orchestra and large choir.

- Sam Darling. An Enduring Beethoven’s Ninth with the Vancouver Academy of Music, March 2020

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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Review Vancouver

Hansel & Gretal

Shamefully, the name Engelbert Humperdinck is more readily associated with the Las Vegas crooner than the nineteenth century German composer. Notwithstanding, the older Humperdinck…

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Vancouver Classical Music

Joyous Mahler

Performing Mahler’s Eighth Symphony represents a profound challenge to any ensemble, and it a very special event when it is undertaken. The VSO under Bramwell Tovey proved relatively…

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Vancouver Classical Music

Superb Onegin

Eugene Onegin is the most loved of Russian operas. Based on a novel in verse by Pushkin— Russia’s own Shakespeare—Tchaikovsky’s presentation plays down some of the author’s satire and shifts the focus away from the…

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