A recent winner of the 2010 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, soprano Leah Crocetto made her San Francisco Opera debut as Sister Dolcina (Suor Angelica) in the Company’s Fall 2009 production of Puccini’s Il Trittico. The second-year Adler Fellow recently appeared as Estelle in Hugo Weisgall’s The Stronger with San Francisco Opera Center and, as a 2008 member of the Merola Opera Program, performed scenes from Manon (singing the title role) and Don Pasquale (Norina). She has worked with Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony on the Verdi Requiem and will be the soprano soloist in the work with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic later this fall. Crocetto’s numerous awards include First Place, People’s Choice, and the Spanish Prize in the 2009 José Iturbi International Music Competition in Los Angeles; a 2009 San Francisco Foundation Artist’s Grant; a 2008 Shoshana Foundation Award; second place in the Florida Suncoast Opera Guild Competition; and first prize in the Bel Canto Foundation Competition.