“He’s got everything I encourage my students to aspire to,” Marilyn Horne said to me a few weeks ago during the intermission of a recital by the young Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez in Oberlin College’s acoustically wonderful Finney Chapel. “His understanding of musical style is impeccable. His sound is glorious. And he really connects. Read More
For some time, the most elusive and prized species of opera singer has been Pavarotti redux. Plácido Domingo remains the dramatic tenor par excellence. But for all the ballyhoo that has attended the careers of such rising young tenors as Roberto Alagna and José Cura, nobody has yet come along with the combination of qualities Read More
On a gray afternoon on Feb. 4, Juan Diego Flórez, the 29-year-old
Peruvian tenor who’s just debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Almaviva in
Gioacchino Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia ,
arrived at Il Violino running and panting, 15 minutes late. He pushed the
restaurant’s doors with both hands and a shake of the head and Read More
