JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ
XXXII Opera Season
JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ
*POSTPONED*
Postponed due to the difficulties of mobility arising from the new regulations decreed by the central government and the Andalusian regional government in order to deal with the coronavirus health crisis.
The new date of the Peruvian tenor’s performance in Malaga will be announced in the near future.
Opera Recital
Programme
Gioachino Rossini
Oberture from L’italiana in Algeri
‘Deh! Tu m’assisti amore’, from Il signor Bruschino
‘Quell’alme pupile’, from La pietra del paragone
Vincenzo Bellini
Obertura de Capuletti e I Montechi
‘Meco all’altar di venere’, from Norma
Gaetano Donizetti
‘Tombe degli avi miei… Fra poco a me ricovero’, from Lucia di Lammermoor
Georges Bizet
Intermission of act 3 from Carmen
Édouard Lalo
‘Vainement, ma bien-aimée’, from Le Roi d’Ys
Jules Massenet
‘Pourquoi me révéiller’, from Werther
Charles Gounod
‘Ah, lève-toi soleil’, from Roméo et Juliette
Pietro Mascagni
Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Giacomo Puccini
‘Che gelida manina’, from La bohème
Programme subject to change
Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Nikolas Nägele
1.30 h (w/out intermission)
photo ©Gregor Hohenberg
Considered one the greatest talents of opera, with a career that includes performances in the world’s major theatres, Juan Diego Flórez (Lima, 1973) generates ecstatic reactions with his refined vocal technique and dazzling and endless resources. Since the age of 23, when he substituted the legendary American tenor Bruce Ford as Corradino in Matilde di Shabran at the 1966 Rossini Festival in Pésaro, the world’s most important theatres compete to have the Peruvian singer at their venues.
His innumerable awards and acknowledgements include the Abbiati Prize awarded by Italian critics, Rossini ďOro, Tamagno Prize, Opus Klassik, Gran Cruz de la Orden del Sol –the highest distinction granted in Peru–, the title of “Kammersänger” granted by the Austrian Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the State Opera of Vienna, and being declared the best light lyric tenor of all times by Plácido Domingo.
His generosity, charisma and passion also inspire his multiple philanthropic activities.
Nikolas Nägele Conductor
Nikolas Nägele made his debut as Christian Thielemann’s assistant in Die Walküre (Wagner) at the 2017 Salzburg Easter Festival and, in 2018, at the Bayreuther Festspiele with Tristan und Isolde (Wagner). He has worked as choirmaster of Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he conducted productions of Die fledermaus (Strauss), Die zauberflöte (Mozart), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) and La traviata (Verdi).
He recently made his debut at the Teatro Communale di Bologna with a new production of L´Italiana in Algeri (Rossini) and at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro with Il viaggio a Reims. His most recent work includes Il matrimonio segreto (Cimarosa) at theTeatro Regio di Torino, Carmen (Bizet) at the Festival Alejandro Granda in Lima, as well symphonic concerts at the Teatro Petruzzeli di Bari and the Teatro Filharmonico di Verona.
Winner of the 2012 James Conlon Conducting Prize and the 2013 Aspen Festival Conducting Prize, in 2014 he was finalist in the 2nd International Sir Georg Solti Conducting Competition of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. .
