L'Amour: Juan Diego Flórez

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the voice, despite having recently bulked out a little, essentially remains a bright, light (and sometimes a little tight) lyric intrument, famously flexible and free at the top but still with... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2014 More…

Release Date: 3rd Mar 2014
Catalogue No: 4785948
Label: Decca
Length: 67 minutes

Excerpt, Boieldieu: La Dame Blanche

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Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Recorded: 2013-07-16
Recording Venue: Teatro Manzoni, Bologna

"A quel plaisir d’être soldat "

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Bizet: La jolie fille de Perth - Adapted Chris Hazell / Act 2

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Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Recorded: 2013-07-16
Recording Venue: Teatro Manzoni, Bologna

"Elle est là ...A la voix d'un amant fidèle"

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Donizetti: La Favorita - Critical Edition Rebecca Harris-Warrick / Act 1

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Juan Diego Flórez (tenor), Sergey Artamonov (bass)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Recorded: 2013-07-16
Recording Venue: Teatro Manzoni, Bologna

"Parle, mon fils - Un ange, une femme inconnue, à genoux, priait "

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Berlioz: Les Troyens / Act 4

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Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Recorded: 2013-07-16
Recording Venue: Teatro Manzoni, Bologna

"O blonde Cérès"

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Adam: Le Postillon de Lonjumeau / Act 1

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Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Recorded: 2013-07-16
Recording Venue: Teatro Manzoni, Bologna

"Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire d'un jeune et galant postillon"

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Delibes: Lakmé / Act 1

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Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Recorded: 2013-07-16
Recording Venue: Teatro Manzoni, Bologna

"Prendre le dessin d'un bijou... Fantaisie aux divins mensonges"

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Massenet: Werther / Act 1

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Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Recorded: 2013-07-16
Recording Venue: Teatro Manzoni, Bologna

"O Nature, pleine de grâce"

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Massenet: Werther / Act 3

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Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Recorded: 2013-07-16
Recording Venue: Teatro Manzoni, Bologna

"Toute mon âme est là! Pourquoi me réveiller, ô souffle de printemps?"

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Thomas, Ambroise: Mignon / Act 1

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Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Recorded: 2013-07-16
Recording Venue: Teatro Manzoni, Bologna

"Oui je veux par le monde promener librement mon humeur vagabonde!"

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Excerpt, Boieldieu: La Dame Blanche

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Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Recorded: 2013-07-16
Recording Venue: Teatro Manzoni, Bologna

"Maintenant, observons … Viens, gentille dame "

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Offenbach: La belle Hélène / Act 1

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Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Recorded: 2013-07-16
Recording Venue: Teatro Manzoni, Bologna

"Au Mont Ida, trois déesses"

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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette / Act 2

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Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Recorded: 2013-07-16
Recording Venue: Teatro Manzoni, Bologna

"L'amour! L'amour! ...Ah! lève-toi, soleil!"

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Lalo: Le Roi d'Ys / Act 3

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Juan Diego Flórez (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Roberto Abbado
Recorded: 2013-07-16
Recording Venue: Teatro Manzoni, Bologna

"Puisqu'on ne peut flêchir ces jalouses gardiennes - vainement ma bien aimée"

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Marking a departure for the Peruvian bel canto superstar, this new recording offers a personal survey of the French operatic repertoire from Donizetti to the romantic outpourings of Gounod and Massenet, including Massenet’s ‘Pourquoi me Reveiller’ from Werther.

This is a disc that not only plays to Flórez’s strengths – virtuosic and high-lying – but also shows a new side to the popular singer, featuring repertoire which he has rarely sung on stage

The first solo album in four years by one of the classical world’s biggest stars reveals a voice which has become richer, rounder and more mellow; the choice of repertoire draws further new colours from this ever-stylish tenor.

Reviews

June 2014

the voice, despite having recently bulked out a little, essentially remains a bright, light (and sometimes a little tight) lyric intrument, famously flexible and free at the top but still with a somewhat limited timbral range...As such, the more wistful, gentle numbers...struck me as the most enjoyable.

December 2014

The care he has taken over French enunciation is evident not just in a generally idiomatic delivery of the text placing him on a different level from several of his French-singing Latin American tenor contemporaries

6th April 2014

his singing of these great French tenor roles recalls the tenore di grazia style of the great Tito Schipa...As Florez begins to tackle such romantic parts on stage, he will find more light and shade, and a more generous use of voix mixte (a blend of chest and head voice), but the results are exciting here.

31st March 2014

Throughout, Flórez is in glowing voice, his clarity and precision of technique as impeccable as ever. In the past, he has occasionally seemed like a relentlessly efficient vocal machine; here, however, he paints enough subtlety of shading and mood to leave such criticism unjustified – evidence of a true artist as well as a star performer.

7th March 2014

The brilliant tone and breath control remain; but Flórez is human after all, and he’s been singing his lungs out round the world for more than 15 years. All he needed, perhaps, was a few extra retakes...everything is beguiling, dressed in succulent accompaniments from Roberto Abbado and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna orchestra. You just have to watch for the voice’s quirks.

Opera Now

no one could deny that Flórez has a remarkable instrument and he surmounts all of the vocal hurdles with ease as one would expect...his voice is getting slightly richer, almost darker, without losing its flexibility or range. So far so good; but it doesn’t sound very stylish or as though he’s overly enjoying himself here.

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