The Beverly Sills Artist Award 2024 has gone to Leah Hawkins, a graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
Last season she sang the principal role of Louise/Betty in the Met premiere of Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.
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