González & Encina Oyón

In her Festival debut, the Paris-trained Guatemalan soprano Adriana González and the pianist and conductor Iñaki Encina Oyón present a program centered on the composer Isaac Albéniz, exploring the different languages through which this author from Camprodon approached the world of song. In the first part, they will address Spanish with Albéniz's Rimas de Bécquer, based on the poems of this Romantic author, in dialogue with Ferran Obradors' Canciones clásicas españolas, before moving on to the Italian language, performing the Baladas in contrast with Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's Opus 12. In the second part, both explore Albéniz's French facet, here in dialogue with the compositions of the husband-and-wife team Robert Dussaut and Hélène Covatti—composers whom this duo has brought back from oblivion, dedicating one of their albums to them. Finally, Granados completes this program that began with Spanish song. González thus presents herself in a recital in Barcelona following her splendid debut in the role of Mimì at the Liceu.