Lima, 13 may (EFE).Lima, 13 may (EFE). — El cantante y guitarrista de música criolla Rubén Flórez, padre del tenor peruano Juan Diego Flórez, falleció hoy a los 76 años en Lima, informaron a Efe ...

Lima, 2 ene (EFE).Lima, 2 ene (EFE). — El tenor peruano Juan Diego Flórez se convirtió el 1 de enero en padre por segunda vez, al nacer en la ciudad italiana de Pesaro una bebé que ha llamado Lucía ...

NEW YORK — Rewarding a rare encore with an even rarer standing ovation in midperformance, a rapturous Metropolitan Opera audience hailed the company’s beguiling new production of Donizetti‘s comic gem ...

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 ...

In 2003, four years before his death, acclaimed Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti was asked who would be his successor. "If I had to name one, I would say Juan Diego Florez," he said, hailing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most opera singers practice scales just before a major live performance. Tenor Juan Diego Flórez assisted with the delivery of his first child. The 38-year old Peruvian tenor joined two mid-wives to ...

Peruvian-born tenor Juan Diego Flórez, 35, sang "La Fille du Régiment" at the Metropolitan Opera last week, and was cheered wildly after the showpiece aria "Ah! Mes Amis," with its nine high C's. He ...

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 ...

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 ...