Early in his career, he got his first big break with a last-minute Italian debut in a role he learned in just a few days. Now, Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flrez is recognized as one of the most admired ...

Juan Diego Flórez's encore of the character Don Ramiro's aria "Si, ritrovarla io giuro" from Act II of Rossini's opera La Cenerentola. The performance at the Metropolitan Opera took place on May 6, ...

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Since 1996, when he made a last-minute debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, when he was all of 23, Juan Diego Flórez has moved quickly into the front ranks of today’s opera stars. Now ...

So many people think opera is, you know, ultra-challenging, elitist, weirdly out of the mainstream, anything but popular entertainment. These people now have an assignment: March to War Memorial Opera ...

Perhaps it’s the challenge of matching a singer like DiDonato, or greater familiarity with the operatic rather than song repertoire. Perhaps it’s just that performing with colleagues takes some of the ...

Not because Florez is inferior or less famous or lacks the potential for superstardom (the marketing men have already gone into overdrive about him) but quite simply because he is a completely, ...

IN 1993, Juan Diego Florez came to New York, auditioning for a job. Short of cash, the young Peruvian tenor took his guitar and headed for the subway in Times Square – where he literally sang for his ...

For a long time, opera pundits were on the lookout for the Fourth Tenor. Juan Diego Florez, the Peruvian superstar, is not it. He’s a different animal entirely. With his light, ringing voice, he is ...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted splendidly as his tenure as the company’s music director began with a new, traditional staging of Verdi’s classic. By Anthony Tommasini For his debut as the company’s ...