This December, Isabel Leonard joins guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas for a series of special concerts in California and New York. The pair perform their intimate recital featuring operatic arias, Argentinian folk songs, and Spanish songs on December 1st at The Baker-Baum Concert Hall in La Jolla and December 3rd at The Colburn School’s Zipper Hall in Los Angeles. The recital will then tour to Alice Tulley Hall in New York on December 9th as part of the Lincoln Center’s “The Other Side of the Stars”, a series dedicated to showcasing the artistry and personality of the Met Opera’s leading soloists.

See below for the full program of these concerts:

 Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

“Près des remparts de Séville…Tais toi” (Seguidilla) from Carmen

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

“Voi che sapete” from The Marriage of Figaro

Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)

Couplets de l’aveu (“Tu n’es pas beau, Tu n’es pas riche”) from La Périchole

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Canzonetta Spagnuola

Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909)

Recuerdos de la Alhambra (solo guitar)

Manuel de Falla (1876 – 1946)

Siete canciones populares españolas (selection)

El paño moruno

Asturiana

Nana

Canción

Polo

Intermission

Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)

Asturias (solo guitar)

Federico García-Lorca (1998-1936)

Canciones Españolas Antiguas (selection)

La Tarara

Nana de Sevilla

Sevillanas del s. XVIII

Roland Dyens (1955-2016)

Tango en Skäi (solo guitar)

Carlos Gardel (1890-1935)

El día que me quieras (tango)

Ariel Ramírez (1921-2010)

Alfonsina y el Mar (zamba)

Alvaro Carrillo (1921-1969)

Sabor a mí (bolero)