LEONARDO PASTORE is a unique voice amongst Argentina’s great tenors and a pioneering ambassador for the preservation of his country’s oldest vocal traditions. Leonardo was born in Buenos Aires where he began his professional tango career aged only ten, performing vintage songs by Gardel, Magaldi and Corsini at the famous Café Tortoni. This early immersion in tango’s nightlife allowed him to rub shoulders with many of the Capital’s tango elites, including some of the greatest ageing stars of tango’s golden era.

One such onlooker was the eminent tango singer Héctor de Rosas (one of Astor Piazzolla’s favourite singers and collaborators) who would go on to become Leonardo’s first formal singing teacher. Rosas was followed later by the soprano Nilda Hoffmann, with whom Leonardo learned classical technique. This led to an illustrious career performing some of bel canto’s greatest roles in operas such as Rigoletto, Tosca, La Boheme and La Traviata amongst many others, across Latin America’s principal opera houses and concert halls. Leonardo’s singing has been praised by Plácido Domingo, Alfredo Kraus and Teresa Berganza, with whom he has also taken numerous masterclasses.