Joseph Canuto Leon

Originally from Des Moines, Joseph has continued his career throughout the United States, singing with Florida Grand Opera, The Dallas Opera, Charlottesville Opera, Painted Sky Opera, American Baroque Opera, Opera on the James, Opera in the Rock, Opera in Concert, AVA Russian Opera Workshop, and Diversitá Opera,

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La Traviata

Giorgio

Peach State Opera

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Florida Grand Opera

Studio Artist, 2023-2024

Chautauqua Opera

Young Artist, Hansel and Gretel, 2024

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(He/Him) Originally from Des Moines, Joseph has continued his career throughout the United States, singing with Florida Grand Opera, The Dallas Opera, Charlottesville Opera, Painted Sky Opera, American Baroque Opera, Opera on the James, Opera in the Rock, Opera in Concert, AVA Russian Opera Workshop, and Diversitá Opera,

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La Traviata

Giorgio

Peach State Opera

Carmen

Moralès

Florida Grand Opera

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I Pagliacci

Tonio

Florida Grand Opera

La bohème

Marcello

Florida Grand Opera

La bohème

Schaunard

Florida Grand Opera

Love and Longing by the Lake

Young Man , Pepito

Chautauqua Opera

Hänsel und Gretel

Father

Chautauqua Opera

La Traviata

Giorgio

Jarrar Brea Duo

Hänsel und Gretel

Father

Wichita Grand Opera

Rodelinda

Garibaldo

American Baroque Opera Company

Das Rheingold

Donner

The Dallas Opera

Ein Deutches Requiem

Baritone Soloist

Des Moines Choral Society

La bohème

Schaunard/Marcello

Painted Sky Opera

La Traviata

Barone Douphol/ Giorgio Germont

Florida Grand Opera

Alcyone

Phorbas/Neptune

American Baroque Opera Company

Acis and Galatea

Polyphemus

American Baroque Opera Company

L'elisir d'amore

Belcore

The Dallas Opera

Le nozze di Figaro

Count Almaviva

TCU – Texas Christian University

The Sound of Music

Admiral Von Schreiber

Charlottesville Opera

The Merry Widow

Baron Zeta

Charlottesville Opera

L'elisir d'amore

Belcore

The Dallas Opera

La Traviata

Marchese

Opera In The Rock

Eugene Onegin

Onegin

Russian Opera Workshop

Hänsel und Gretel

Father

Diversitá Opera Arts Company

El Barbero de Sevilla

Ricardo Martin

Opera in Concert

La Traviata

Marchese

Opera on the James

Biography

Joseph Canuto Leon

Praised for his “Outstanding Singing” and “Big, bass-y baritone” by The Dallas Morning News, dramatic baritone Joseph Canuto Leon is an emerging artist beginning to make strides in the classical voice world. Originally from Des Moines, Joseph has been featured with Florida Grand Opera, The Dallas Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Charlottesville Opera, Wichita Grand Opera, American Baroque Opera Company, Painted Sky Opera, Peach State Opera and Opera on the James.

Major roles in Joseph’s repertoire include Giorgio Germont (La traviata), Tonio (I Pagliacci), Ford (Falstaff), Marcello and Schaunard (La bohème), Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Il conte d’Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), The Father (Hansel and Gretel), Donner (Das Rheingold), Baron Zeta (The Merry Widow), Garibaldo (Rodelinda), Polyphemus (Acis and Galatea), and Belcore (The Dallas Opera’s abridged production of The Elixir of Love).

Joseph is a graduate of the University of North Texas (MM 2017) and Iowa State University (BM 2013) and is a voice student of baritone Michael Chioldi. His professional training came as a member of the Young Artist Programs of Florida Grand Opera (2023-2024), The Dallas Opera (2021-2023), Chautauqua Opera (2024), Charlottesville Opera (2022), Opera on the James (2019), and the Russian Opera Workshop at AVA (2020).

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"Two of the singers were outstanding...Joseph Canuto Leon’s Polyphemus lurched and blustered splendidly, with a big bass-ish baritone."

— Dallas Morning News

"Joseph Canuto Leon brought a domineering menace to Baron Douphol.... The relationship between Violetta and Baron Douphol was front and center from the opera's beginning rather than a reaction to abandoning Alfredo "

— South Florida Classical Review

"A pleasant surprise was the high-profile Schaunard of studio artist Joseph Canuto Leon. Thanks in part to Cooksey's canny and keen-eyed staging, Leon made Schaunard's early-on description of his successful day seem like a mini-aria - even though the other three men were singing in background counterpoint, and this character doesn't have an extended solo. "

— Opera News

"The addition of Leon later in the quartet amped up the enjoyment of the scene. Their voices meshed together beautifully to create a powerful echoing sound. The believability did not stop there, for the entirety of the piece the characters were committed and all brought a sense of unity and realness to teach scene. "

— Operawire

"Joseph Canuto Leon brought a smooth baritone as the fiance Ricardo"

— Texas Classical Review

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