Soprano Leela Subramaniam has sung with some of the world’s most prestigious houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Gärtnerplatz Theater, Theater Basel, Irish National Opera, LA Opera, and Carnegie Hall. A winner of the Bjorn Eklund Scholarship, she was a member of the Bavarian State Opera studio as a young artist, a 1st prize winner of the Joan Taub Ades Competition, as well as a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Competition, Tenor Viñas Competition, Giulio Gari Foundation, and the Zinka Milanov International Competition. Passionate about new music, Leela has performed in five world premieres.  
 
In the upcoming season, Ms. Subramaniam will be performing the title role in the world premiere of Minnesota Opera’s The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Kamala Sankaram and in recital with the Da Camera Society. Most recently she performed selections of Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna) and Candide (Cunegonde) with the New World Symphony and Angels Vocal Arts, as a soloist with the Debussy Trio and South Bay Chamber Music Society, the Governess in Britten's Turn of the Screw with Opera UCLA and Long Beach Opera, Beethoven’s Mass in C with the La Jolla Symphony, and the world premiere of Joaquin Lichtle's Sogno della Fenice in Schoenberg Hall. In previous seasons, Ms. Subramaniam performed the title role in Handel’s first opera Rodrigo, Pauline Oliveros’ Bye Bye Butterfly with Long Beach Opera, Veronica in the world premiere of Richard Danielpour’s The Grand Hotel Tartarus, and made her role debut as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro with Portland Opera. She is an Applied Lecturer in Voice at Mount Saint Mary's, where she teaches lessons and performance masterclasses.