Overview
Sponsored by Donna L. Kendall Foundation
Additional support from the Segerstrom Foundation
Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, guitar
Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano
BIZET: Près des remparts de Séville from Carmen
MOZART: Voi che sapete from Le nozze di Figaro
OFFENBACH: Tu n’es pas beau, tu n’es pas riche from La Périchole
ROSSINI: Canzonetta Spagnuola
TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra (solo guitar)
DE FALLA: Selections from Siete Canciones Populares Españolas
ALBÉNIZ: Asturias (solo guitar)
GARCÍA- LORCA: Canciones Españolas Antiguas
DYENS: Tango en Skäi (solo guitar)
GARDEL: El día que me quieras (tango)
RAMÍREZ: Alfonsina y el Mar (zamba)
CARRILLO: Sabor a mí (bolero)
Celebrate the Philharmonic Society of Orange County's 70th anniversary season at our Opening Night concert featuring the glamorous Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, alongside the classical guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, who Billboard calls “the soul of the Spanish guitar."
Pablo Sáinz-Villegas has become a worldwide sensation known as this generation’s great guitarist. He has been acclaimed by the international press as the successor of Andrés Segovia and an ambassador of Spanish culture in the world. As a passionate promoter of the development of new repertoire, he has made numerous world premieres including the first composition for guitar by five-time Academy Award-winner John Williams.
Isabel Leonard is an award-winning mezzo-soprano who has performed leading roles in every major opera house in the world including The Met Opera, La Scala, and Vienna State Opera; as well as in concert on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Salzburg Festival and The Kennedy Center. She was named recipient of the prestigious Richard Tucker Award and currently has three Grammy Awards for Michael Tilson Thomas’ From the Diary of Anne Frank on SFS Media, Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges on Decca, and The Tempest from The Metropolitan Opera on Deutsche Grammophon.
