Juan Diego Flórez reviews
Massenet: Werther
Juan Diego Flórez, Anna Stéphany et al; Chor der Oper Zürich; Philharmonia Zürich/Cornelius Meister; dir. Tatjana Gürbaca (Accentus; DVD)
Gluck: Orphée et Euridice
Juan Diego Flórez, Christiane Karg, Fatma Said; Hofesh Shechter Company; Chorus & Orchestra of Teatro Alla Scala/Michele Mariotti; dir. John Fulljames (Belvedere, DVD)
Rossini: Ricciardo e Zoraide
Coro del Teatro Ventido Basso; Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI/Giacomo Sagripanti, et al (C Major / DVD)
Juan Diego Flórez performs extracts from operas by Mozart
Notwithstanding the publicity around this recording, Juan Diego Flórez’s Mozart CD marks no dramatic development in his artistic profile. It’s not, in fact,his first-ever Mozart recording (in Decca’s starry 1998 Mitridate he took part as Marzio); nor is it his first-ever venture into 18th century Classical opera (his 1996 La Scala debut was in Gluck’s Armide, and during the last decade he’s championed widely Gluck’s Orphée).