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    Juan Diego Florez is a renowned Peruvian lyric tenor born in 1973 in Lima, Peru. He began his singing career performing covers and as a substitute singer, before entering the National Conservatory of Music in Peru. After furthering his studies at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, his 1996 performance in "Ricciardo e Zoraide" brought him international acclaim. He has since performed at major opera houses around the world and received numerous awards, with Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo expressing admiration for him as the best light tenor.

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    Juan Diego Florez is a renowned Peruvian lyric tenor born in 1973 in Lima, Peru. He began his singing career performing covers and as a substitute singer, before entering the National Conservatory of Music in Peru. After furthering his studies at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, his 1996 performance in "Ricciardo e Zoraide" brought him international acclaim. He has since performed at major opera houses around the world and received numerous awards, with Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo expressing admiration for him as the best light tenor.

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    Juan Diego Florez is a renowned Peruvian lyric tenor born in 1973 in Lima, Peru. He began his singing career performing covers and as a substitute singer, before entering the National Conservatory of Music in Peru. After furthering his studies at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, his 1996 performance in "Ricciardo e Zoraide" brought him international acclaim. He has since performed at major opera houses around the world and received numerous awards, with Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo expressing admiration for him as the best light tenor.

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    BIOGRAPHY OF JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ

    Juan Diego Florez is a peruvian lyric tenor. He was born in 1973 in Lima
    Peru. His father is Ruben Flores Pinedo, a singer and guitarist of peruvian
    folk music, and his mother is Maria Teresa Salom.
    He began singing covers and as a substitute for other singers. In 1990,
    thanks to the support of his music teacher, Genaro Chumpitaz, he entered
    to the National Conservatory of Music an also he formed part of the National
    Choir of Peru.
    After some years he moved to the USA to study song at the Curtis Institute
    in Philadelphia. In 1996, he was hired to sing Ricciardo e Zoraide where
    his performance was masterful and immediately caught the attention of
    critics. Afther that, he was invited to perform at the Theatre Scala of Milan,
    the Royal Opera House in London, Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan
    Opera House in New York.
    In 2000, he received the Abbiati Award as the best singer of the year and
    also hes won numerous awards in subsequent years. Since 2001 hes
    released four CDs under the Decca label, with solo recitals. Since 2003 the
    great lyric tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo have expressed
    their admiration for Juan Diego Flores as the best light tenor.
    On April 5, 2008 he married Julia Trappe in the Cathedral of Lima in Peru. A
    year later, his first son Leandro was born in New York.

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