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| About Juan Diego Fl�rez |
| Review in Spanish in El Pa�s of March 7, 2002, of a recital in Madrid, in which the tenor had a problem with phlegm. "'Las flemas se colocan en las cuerdas vocales y es como si raspasen', explic� Fl�rez." The critic's summation was: "No fue, ni mucho menos, el del Real un recital impecable, pero al menos el tenor dej� la sensaci�n de que vale la pena ir al fin del mundo por escucharle." |
| Juan Diego Fl�rez is the "tenor currently drawing the most buzz," says npr.com. |
| "Florez is the genuine article; he has a voice which is a God-given instrument of sublime beauty, his technique is astonishingly secure for so early a stage in his career, his particular vocal agility lends itself to brilliant show-stopping arias with stunning effect, he has a beguiling stage manner and noble bearing, is exceptionally handsome, and, most of all, he sings with wonderful taste and accuracy, phrasing the music with a refinement all to[o] rarely heard . . .," wrote Melanie Eskenazi in a review at musicweb.uk.net of a London performance. |
| "[I]n 'La Cenerentola,' Rossini's version of the [Cinderella] fairy tale, which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday night [September 28, 2002], Juan Diego Fl�rez, the 29-year-old Peruvian tenor, walked off with the show," wrote Anne Midgette in the New York Times of October 1, 2002. |
| "Sport is what I really love; and there, too, I take myself to the limit! I don't even care if I'm not fully fit: I push myself, particularly when I play soccer. And when I'm back in Peru, I love to surf! And not with a board: just with the body! It's a Peruvian specialty. You get right inside the waves. It's dangerous--and I love it."--Juan Diego Fl�rez as quoted in BBC Music Magazine of February 2003. |
| "Certainly there is no one around today who does this repertory better and no one I would rather hear in it," wrote Anne Midgette in the New York Times of Sunday April 6, 2003, in her review of the compact disc Una furtiva lagrima. |
| 1. Rita : Allegro io son (Donizetti) 2. L'Elisir d'amore - Una Furtiva lagrima (Donizetti) 3. I Capuletti ed i Montecchi - E serbato a questo acciaro (Bellini) 4. Don Pasquale - Povero Ernesto (Donizetti) 5. Don Pasquale - Com' e gentil �tornami a dir (Donizetti) 6. La Sonnambula - Tutto e sciolto (Bellini) 7. Elisabetta - Ah non sogno�.disperato (Donizetti) 8. I Puritani - A te, o cara �and Aria (Bellini) 9. La fille du r�giment - A mes amies (Donizetti |
| The DVD version (for United States and Canada) of a 2001 performance of Verdi's Falstaff with Juan Diego Fl�rez as Fenton and Barbara Frittoli as Alice was released on November 18, 2003, and can be ordered from amazon.com. The performance, at the small Teatro Verdi in Busseto, Italy, featured sets and costumes recreated from a performance of 1913. |
| On February 28, 2004, at 1:30 p.m. New York time, the Metropolitan Opera will broadcast over the radio a performance of Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri. The performance is to be conducted by James Levine, with a cast announced as the following: Isabella: Olga Borodina Lindoro: Juan Diego Fl�rez Taddeo: Earle Patriarco Haly: Mariusz Kwiecien Mustaf�: Ferruccio Furlanetto |
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| "The 31-year-old Peruvian is blessed with matinee idol good looks, a sweetly virile 'tenore di grazia,' technique to burn and a natural joy in singing that immediately connects with his listeners," wrote Stephanie von Buchau for a recital review in the Alameda Times-Star, January 2004. |
| "Is he the best tenor in the world?" asks Robert Jones about Juan Diego Fl�rez at charleston.net. |
| A Deutsche Grammophon recording of Rossini's Le Comte Ory with Juan Diego Fl�rez was released at amazon.co.uk on 13 September 2004. |
| Rossini - Il Barbiere Di Siviglia / Juan Diego Florez, Maria Bayo, Pietro Spagnoli, Ruggero Raimondi, Bruno Pratico, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Madrid Opera, is scheduled for release on DVD in the United States on November 15, 2005. amazon.com |
Juan Diego Fl�rez - Sentimiento Latino - El D�a Que Me Quieras (USA)
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