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Mathieu Levan

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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About Anthony

American-born Cuban and Colombian tenor, Anthony León, is a young up-and-comer quickly developing an international performing career. His voice has been lauded by Stage and Cinema as possessing “beauty, freedom of tone, and outstanding breath control.” Anthony has received some of the most prestigious honors in the opera industry including being a finalist for the Rising Star award at the 2024 International Opera Awards and a winner of the 2024 Richard Tucker Career Grant. He has also won the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition winner and received the First Prize and the Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Zarzuela Prize at Operalia, 2022, the most important opera competition in the world. Additionally, he has been awarded a Career Development Grant from the Sullivan Foundation. Other accolades include being featured in Opera News magazine and being named “Best up-and-comer” in the Inland Empire Magazine’s “Best of the Best 2019” list, among other important awards.

Anthony has made many important debuts in stages and theaters around the world. Most recent engagements in the 2024 season include debuting Nadir in Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles at Cologne Opera, singing Telemaco in Il ritorno d’Ulisse at the Aix-en-Provence festival, and making debuts with symphony orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony at the Ravinia Festival and the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl with Maestro Gustavo Dudamel. In 2025, he will perform at LA Opera as Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan Tutte and will make his house debut at the Berlin Staatsoper singing Nadir in Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles.

Anthony is based in California, USA

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024
Los Angeles Philharmonic - Hollywood Bowl - Beethoven 9
Mar 2025
LA Opera - Così fan tutte - Ferrando
Apr 2025
Berlin Staatsoper - Les pêcheurs de perles - Nadir

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Selected Repertoire

ARGENTO Postcard from Morocco (Mr Owen)
BIZETCarmen (Le Remendado)   •   The Pearl Fishers (Nadir)
BRITTENThe Rape of Lucretia (Male Chorus)   •   A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lysander)
DEBUSSYImpressions of Pelléas (Pelléas)
DONIZETTILucia di Lammermoor (Normanno)   •   Don Pasquale (Ernesto)   •   L’elisir d’amore (Nemorino)
GILBERT & SULIVANThe Pirates of Penzance (Frederic)
HUMPERDINCKHänsel und Gretel (The Witch)
MONTEVERDIIl ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Giove)
MOZARTDon Giovanni (Don Ottavio)   •   Le nozze di Figaro (Don Curzio)   •   Il re pastore (Agenore)   •   Die Zauberflöte (Tamino)
POULENCDialogue des Carmélites (Le Chevalier de la Force)
PUCCINIla Tosca (Spoletta)
RAVELL’enfant et les sortilèges (Teapot/Arithmetic/Tree Frog)
ROSSINIIl barbiere di siviglia (Count Almaviva)
VERDIOtello (Roderigo)   •   Falstaff (Fenton)

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  • MOZART - Don Giovanni

    Los Angeles Opera, LA
    Sep 2023

    • Rising star Anthony León’s role debut as Don Ottavio was spectacular. In his rendition of “Il Mio Tesoro” (“My Treasure”), a veritable vocal obstacle course, he flawlessly executed every point with a remarkable level of sophistication and grace. His light lyric tenor instrument showed beauty, freedom of tone, and outstanding breath control. León, an LA Opera young artist, has recently won grand prizes in the two of the most prestigious global opera competitions, Operalia and the Metropolitan Opera Laffont competition. While León’s repertoire has so far been wide-ranging (from Baroque to Verdi), the right role choices could launch him into becoming one of the finest lyric tenors tenors of our time, leaving the heavier Verdi and Puccini roles for later in his career.