American Tenor Richard Leech has been celebrated around the globe for his iconic interpretations of the roles of the lyric tenor repertoire. He has sung with opera companies and symphonies from the Met to Chicago, LA, San Francisco, Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna, Paris, and Rome, as well as in Korea, China, Russia, and Brazil. He can be found on more than twenty opera and symphony recordings including his solo album, From the Heart, on the Telarc label. Leech is associate professor of voice and opera and also stage director of Mason Opera at George Mason University’s Sid and Reva Dewberry School of Music in Fairfax, VA.