Recording The Leader

December featured a series of recording sessions for an upcoming CD release, including one devoted to The Leader, a chamber opera based on a short one-act play by Eugène Ionesco. The recording featured much of the original cast from the Opera in the Heights premiere in February 2020 (immediately before the pandemic closed all performances!). Conducted by Eiki Isomura and starring Mark Diamond (baritone) as the Announcer, Megan Berti (mezzo-soprano) as the Female Admirer and Aidan Smerud (bass-baritone) at the Male Admirer.