Bio

Leena Chopra made her Seattle Opera debut as the Second Priestess in Gluck’s Iphigenia in Tauris. A former Seattle Opera Young Artist, Chopra’s credits include L’Amour and Clarine in Rameau’s Platée at Sante Fe Opera; Alexandra (Zan) in Marc Blitzstein’s Regina at the Kennedy Center; and Young Heidi in Follies and Mrs. Segstrom in A Little Night Music on Broadway. As a resident artist at Wolf Trap Opera, her roles included Echo in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, Oberto in Handel’s Alcina, and the Bernstein roles of Paquette in Candide and Maria in West Side Story. Other roles for this 2007 Lotte Lenya Competition winner include Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Ida in Johann Strauss Jr.’s Fledermaus, and Esperanza in Osvaldo Golijav’s Ainadamar with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.