Juan Diego Flórez – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonWhen Juan Diego Flórez first appeared in the Rosenblatt Recitals series in 2001, he sang at St John's, Smith Square, in London. He has subsequently stepped up to the much larger Royal Festival Hall, and now to the vast Albert Hall – a trajectory reflecting the Peruvian tenor's increasingly wide audience appeal. Judging by his reception from a near-capacity crowd, superstar status cannot be far off.Yet he showed little desire to make his programme overtly populist, a s...

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