Leonardo Neiva
tenor
Tenor Leonardo Neiva is a member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble, one of the world’s leading opera houses. He is an artist known for his stage presence and vocal versatility, and he has performed at major theaters throughout Latin America.
Since his professional debut at the age of 23, he has received acclaim from both audiences and critics. He won the Bidu Sayão international singing competition and has since been recognized as a versatile artist with excellent stage skills, capable of interpreting wide-ranging repertoire.
After starring in the musical Les Misérables in Brazil and Mexico, he received the XII Carlos Gomes Award for Best Male Singer in 2009 for his performances in the operas Samson et Dalila (High Priest) and Dido and Aeneas (Aeneas), and the symphonic poem Kullervo by Jean Sibelius. In 2013, he achieved great success with Roger Waters’s rock musical Ça Ira.
Some of his notable works include Falstaff (Ford) with OSESP; Les pêcheurs de perles (Zurga), Pagliacci (Silvio), and Thaïs (Athanael) at the Municipal Theater of Santiago, Chile; Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) at the debut of the Brazilian Opera Company; Wozzeck and Carmina Burana for the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon; Dialogues des Carmélites (Marquis de La Force), Tristan und Isolde (Kurwenal), and Hänsel und Gretel (Father) at the Amazonas Opera Festival; Ariadne auf Naxos (Music Teacher), Götterdämmerung (Gunther), and the title role in Don Giovanni for the Municipal Theater of São Paulo; La bohème at the Palácio das Artes in Belo Horizonte; and Roméo et Juliette (Mercutio) at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro.
In 2013, he participated in the Brazilian premiere of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, creating the role of Bottom with great success. He recently made his debut in France in Wagner’s opera Rienzi at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, directed by the veteran Jorge Lavelli. This production was internationally released on DVD by the OPUS ARTE label. He has also recorded Villa-Lobos’s Symphony No. 10, “Ameríndia,” with OSESP under the baton of Isaac Karabtchevsky.
Additionally, he is an expert in musical theater and in 2018, he starred in the musical The Phantom of the Opera in Brazil.
