Peruvian-born tenor Juan Diego Flórez, 35, sang "La Fille du Régiment" at the Metropolitan Opera last week, and was cheered wildly after the showpiece aria "Ah! Mes Amis," with its nine high C's. He ...

Tenor Javier Camarena set a record last night with his encore of “Ah, mes amis!” as Tonio in the season's first performance of Donizetti's LA FILLE DU REGIMENT. It was the first time that anyone was ...

NEW YORK, April 23 (UPI) -- Peruvian operatic tenor Juan Diego Florez this week performed the first solo encore in 14 years at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. Florez decided to perform the encore ...

Not since the early seventies, when Luciano Pavarotti knocked opera’s nine most famous high notes into the Met balcony to become King of the High C’s, has a tenor done justice to the role of Tonio in ...

I’ve said before that the up-where-the-air-is-rare kind of arts need stars as much as TV and movies do. Stars generate excitement and interest; they raise, or at least solidify, standards (well, ...

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