Great Voices: Juan Diego Flórez - Schedule, Program & Tickets

PERFORMERS

Juan Diego Flórez, Tenor
& Band

PROGRAMM

Eine musikalische Reise durch Lateinamerika mit
Tomás Mendéz
Cucurrucucú paloma (1954)
Joseíto Fernández
Guantanamera
Chabuca Granda
José Antonio (1957)
Consuelo Velázquez
Bésame mucho
und anderen Liedern

Great Voices
Latin American popular music in the highest brilliance with one of the world's best tenors of our time. Juan Diego Flórez dedicates a full concert to the music he grew up with in his native Peru. It will be a very personal, touching as well as passionate song festival when Flórez sings, for example, compositions by Chabuca Granda, which his father Rubén, a Peruvian-Creole singer, recorded for the record and sang together with him. "My dad was the best performer of their songs because he told their content like no one else," he noted, and was endorsed by Granda himself, who ennobled his father as her favorite cover singer. That in Flórez 'South American homeland, the boundaries between electric and underground music are much more fluid than in Europe, prove not only the sovereign between these spheres oscillating performer, but also many program numbers such as the Mexican love song Bésame mucho, which neither the Beatles escaped Elvis Presley and quoted a theme by the "E-composer" Enrique Granados. As Flórez proves, the route from canons performed in bars to opera can be consistent. For one evening, celebrate the musical return to these roots!