“Leonard sang Blanche with an astonishing mixture of softness and backbone. She has steadily marched toward stardom at the Met, and the affinity between her and Nézet-Séguin is evolving into one of the company’s great artistic partnerships. Her voice is purest vicuña: warm, fine, and naturally colored. She can be slow to shed her poise or let anything mar the perfect weave of sound, but in her Blanche you could sense doubt doing battle with determination, a wild heart beating beneath the habit. Even if you’re not French, a nun, a Catholic, or even much of a believer, it’s easy to empathize with Blanche if you’ve ever felt the need to resist political power or the desire to retreat from the world’s cacophonous scrum.”

Vulture