Juan Diego Flórez
Juan Diego Flórez ( born January 13, 1973 in Lima, Peru ) is a Peruvian- Austrian opera singer. He is regarded as the leading representative of the rare and difficult light Rossini tenor of the present.
Career
His father Rubén was a Peruvian folk singer. Juan Diego Flórez began his musical training in Lima ( Conservatorio Nacional de Lima). His principal teachers were the mentor and manager Ernesto Palacio, himself a renowned Rossini tenor, and Andrés de Santa Maria Gonzales, himself a disciple of Jeno Sipos, Rene Jacobs and Dennis Hall. This engaged him as a tenor in the choir Coro Nacional del Peru in Lima, where he remained for three years.
He continued his studies at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia in 1993 continued. In 1994 he was invited by his manager Palacio to participate in a modern opera in Italy. In 1996 he made his operatic debut in Matilde di Shabran at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, where his expressive and flexible voice impressed the world.
Flórez sings at the major opera houses of the world (eg, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Semperoper ) and is a regular guest at the Festival in Pesaro. He also performs regularly.
His repertoire includes the great tenor roles of Rossini (La Cenerentola, The Barber of Seville, etc.), Donizetti (La fille du régiment ) and Bellini (I Capuleti ei Montecchi ) and further French parts of the lyrical subject.
Since 23 April 2007 he is married to German actress Julia Trappe. The civil ceremony took place in Vienna. The church wedding was held on 5 April 2008 in the Cathedral of Lima.
Discography (selection)
- Rossini: Arias & Duets ( duet partner of Vesselina Kasarova under Arthur Fagen, RCA: 1999 )
- Donizetti: Alahor in Granata (conductor Josep Pons, CD; Almaviva, 1999)
- Rossini: Semiramide ( with Edita Gruberova and Ildebrando D' Arcangelo under Marcello Panni, Nightingale: 2002)
- Rossini: Arias ( under Riccardo Chailly, Decca: 2002 )
- Una furtiva Lagrima ( under Riccardo Frizza, DECCA: 2003 )
- Great Tenor Arias (Carlo Rizzi, DECCA: 2004 )
- Rossini: Le Comte Ory ( under Jesús López Cobos, DGG: 2004 )
- Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia ( with Edita Gruberova conducted by Ralf Weikert, Nightingale: 2004)
- Rossini: Matilde di Shabran (Conductor Riccardo Frizza, CD: live recording from 2004, Decca, 2006)
- Sentimiento latino ( DECCA: 2006 )
- Arias for Rubini ( under Roberto Abbado, DECCA: 2007 )
- Bellini: La sonnambula (Conductor: Alessandro de Marchi, CD, Decca 2008)
- Bel canto spectacular ( under Daniel Oren; DECCA: 2008)
- Rossini: La Cenerentola ( under Patrick Summers, Joyce DiDonato as Cenerentola with, DECCA: 2009, DVD)
- Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice (Conductor Lopez- Cobos, CD, live recording from 2008, Decca, 2010)
Awards
- Abbiati Price ( Premio Abbiati ) by Italian music critics (1999)
- Rossini d' Oro in Pesaro ( 2000)
- Aureliano Pertile - price
- Francesco Tamagno price
- L'Opera Award Price
- Bellini 's Prize
- Kammersänger the Vienna State Opera (2012 )