Juan Diego Flórez

男高音歌唱家胡安·迪亞哥·弗洛雷茲（Juan Diego Flórez）1973年生于秘魯首都利馬，早年在當(dāng)?shù)貙W(xué)習(xí)音樂，后在美國費城的庫爾蒂斯學(xué)院完成學(xué)業(yè)。弗洛雷茲的首次正式演出是1996年在羅西尼的故鄉(xiāng)佩薩羅（意大利東部的一海濱小城）舉行的羅西尼歌劇節(jié)上，他的表現(xiàn)頗受好評，并引起了歌劇界的極大關(guān)注。此后，弗洛雷茲便作為一位冉冉升起的青年男高音歌唱家出現(xiàn)在歌劇舞臺上，他擅長演唱佩爾戈萊西、羅西尼、唐尼采蒂、威爾第、普契尼、洛塔等人的作品，并與多位當(dāng)代指揮家合作過，包括：穆蒂、鄭明勛、馬里內(nèi)爾、查理、杰爾梅第、羅塞特、里奇、西摩尼、帕帕諾、杰達、阿巴多。?
Juan Diego Flórez (born January 13, 1973 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas. On June 4, 2007, he received his country's highest decoration, the Gran Cruz de la Orden del Sol del Perú。
Juan Diego Flórez was born in Lima, Peru, on January 13, 1973 where his father, Rubén Flórez, was a noted guitarist and singer of Peruvian popular and criolla music. In an interview in the Peruvian newspaper Ojo, Flórez recounted his early days when his mother managed a pub with live music and he worked as a replacement singer whenever the main attraction called in sick. "It was a tremendous experience for me, since most of those who were regulars at the pub were of a certain age, so I had to be ready to sing anything from huay?os to Elvis Presley music and, in my mind, that served me a great deal because, in the final analysis, any music that is well structured—whether it is jazz, opera, or pop—is good music".
Initially intending to pursue a career in popular music, he entered the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Lima at the age of 17. His classical voice emerged in the course of his studies there under Maestro Andrés Santa María. During this time, he became a member of the Coro Nacional of Peru and sang as a soloist in Mozart's Coronation Mass and Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle.
He received a scholarship to the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia where he studied from 1993 to 1996 and began singing in student opera productions in the repertory that is still his specialty today, Rossini and the bel canto operas of Bellini and Donizetti. During this period, he also studied with Marilyn Horne at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. In 1994 the Peruvian tenor, Ernesto Palacio invited him to Italy to work on a recording of Vicente Martín y Soler's opera Il Tutore Burlato. He subsequently became Flórez's teacher, mentor and manager and has had a profound influence on his career.