Leah Finn

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Opera San José

2025 - Present
San José, CA

Performer/Cover

2025 - Present
Covering the role of Dorabella in their 2025 production of Così fan tutte.
San Francisco, CA, USA

Teaching Artist

2024 - Present
Perform the roles of Cenerentola in La Cenerentola and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia in their educational productions. We rehearse with the students and perform in a performance for their peers and teachers.

Opera Parallèle

2025 - 2025
San Francisco, CA

Assistant Director

2025 - 2025
Assistant director for the world premiere of David Hanlon and Stephanie Fleischmann's The Pigeon Keeper.
Wooster, Ohio

Resident Young Artist

2025 - 2025
Resident Young Artist during the summer 2025 season at Ohio Light Opera Compay in the ensemble of Carousel, Brigadoon, Tip-Toes, and Patience as well as the role of Effie in Nöel Coward's Bitter Sweet.
Napa, CA, USA

Manetti Shrem Opera Fellow

2024 - 2024
Mezzo-soprano in the Manetti Shrem Opera Program for summer 2024. Performed scenes in the orchestrated scenes concert: Rosina in Rossini's Barber of Seville - "Contro un cor che accende muore" Mallika in Delibes' Lakmé - The Flower Duet
San Francisco, CA

Performer

2024 - 2021
Graduated with a Master's of Music in Voice (2021-2023) and Professional Studies Certificate (2024) under the tutelage of Catherine Cook. Performed the mainstage opera roles of Annio in La Clemenza di Tito, The Secretary in The Consul by Menotti, L'écureuil/la chatte in L'enfant et les sortilèges by Ravel, Zanetto in Zanetto by Mascagni, and the Taller Daughter in Missy Mazzoli's Proving Up. Performed in the Historical Performance operas under the direction of Corey Jamason in the title roles of Handel's Flavio and Serse. Also performed with the musical theatre ensemble and performed in three different cabaret shows. Served as the opera graduate assistant where I assistant directed and stage managed multiple opera productions and worked as a production student assistant where I assisted in both front-of-house and back-of-house capacities and helped with program writing in the box office.
Harrisonburg, Virginia

Student

2017 - 2021
Graduated witha Bachelor's of Music degree in vocal performance and music theatre. Performed in the mainstage productions of Jade Boucher in Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking, Siebel (cover) in Gounod's Faust, Leila in Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe, 2nd Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, and Kate in Gilbert and Sullivan's PIrates of Penzance.

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Leah Finn

Leah Finn is an emerging mezzo-soprano from Virginia Beach, Virginia currently based in San Francisco, California. Most recently, she performed as a Resident Young Artist at The Ohio Light Opera, where she sang and danced in 46 performances in the ensembles of Carousel, Brigadoon, Patience, Gershwin's Tip-Toes, and as Effie in Noël Coward's Bitter Sweet.  In 2024, she was a Manetti Shrem Opera Fellow with Festival Napa Valley.  Some favorite credits include Taller Daughter in Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's Proving Up, Cenerentola in La Cenerentola, Serse in Handel’s Serse, Zanetto in Mascagni’s Zanetto, Annio in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito, The Secretary in Menotti's The Consul, Flavio in Handel’s Flavio, Zweite Dame in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, and Jade Boucher in Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking. She is also featured in the documentary Flicka, which tells the story of the life and career of legendary mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade. 

Upcoming performances include covering Dorabella in Così fan tutte with ​​​​​Opera San José and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with San Francisco Opera Guild. She will also be singing as a soloist in Manuel de Falla's El sombrero de tres picos with the Santa Rosa Symphony. 

When not performing, Leah is also passionate about directing and choreographing. Most recently, she assistant directed director Brian Staufenbiel with the world premiere of David Hanlon and Stephanie Fleischmann's The Pigeon Keeper ​​​​​Opera Parallèle. She has also assistant-directed and assistant-choreographed multiple productions with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and James Madison University, including Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon with director Sergey Khalikulov and Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance with director Don Rierson. 

She frequently collaborates with her twin sister Camryn Finn. Together they have performed the Taller Daughter and Littler Daughter in Missy Mazzoli's Proving Up, 1st and 2nd Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, and Hansel and Gretel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. 

She holds a Professional Studies Certificate and a Master's in Voice from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Catherine Cook. She graduated with a Bachelor's in Voice and Music Theatre from James Madison University.

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