León de la Guardia

León de la Guardia was born in Viña del Mar, Chile, and currently lives in Vienna. He began his singing studies at the Conservatorio de Musica Isidor Handler in Viña del Mar. Early on in his studies, he decided to travel to Europe to pursue further education. Upon his arrival to Barcelona he joined the Cor Jove del Palau de la Musica Catalana and began taking private lessons. Since then, he has focused his studies on the Italian and French repertoire as a lyric Tenor, which gave him the opportunity to make his professional debut in Spain as Don José in Carmen. In this trajectory, he has portrayed roles such as Rodolfo, Pinkerton and Luigi in Puccini’s La Boheme, Madame Butterfly and Tabarro, Ismael in Verdi’s Nabucco, Arvino in I lombardi, as well as Alfredo in La Traviata and Macduff in M