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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