Brook Collin

Fresh from yesterday's John Fulljames new creation premiere of Donna del Lago at the Royal Opera House comes Rupert Christiansen's evaluation, originated "bellissimo canto". Treating the ostentatious expressive ornamentation of Rossini's Highlander-lite, happy ending opera was Juan Diego Flórez and Joyce DiDonato

The sun shines out-of Joyce DiDonato’s style, and her ravishingly beautiful Elena caps the show with an elegant consideration of the lilting “Tanti affetti”. The formally remarkable Juan Florez Marietta is all fire and enthusiasm as Uberto, incandescent in runs and roulades, determined in his generation of rock-steady top Bs and Cs. Your house went mad with delight for them both.

In his London property debut was thirty-three year old Italian conductor Michele Mariotti, who saddles with Flórez this May for a Graham Vick-guided Guillaume Tell at his family's Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival.

This honor, that anually honors musicians who've used their craft to enhance their state of the world, identifies his are president of Sinfonía por el Perú,a foundation that encourages the formation of children's orchestras in one of the most vulnerable areas of the nation.

In less than three years, Sinfonía por el Perú has more than 13 stores throught the nation, together with a luthier athelier and the Symphonic Youngsters Orchestra, and more than 2.000 children benefitting from this program.

Other Crystal Award recipients in the Annual Meeting 2014 contain Matt Damon (actor, cofounder Water.org, USA), Lorin Maazel (conductor, Munich Philarmonic Orchestra), and Shirin Neshat (performer, USA).

Juan Diego Flórez was born in Lima, Peru, on January 13, 1973 where his dad, Rubén Flórez, was a noted musician and singer of Peruvian well-known and criolla music. In an interview in the Peruvian magazine Ojo, Flórez recounted his early days when his mother managed a nightclub with live music and he worked as an alternative artist when the primary attraction called in sick. "It was a tremendous experience for me, since the majority of those who were regulars at the bar were of a specific age, therefore I must be prepared to play something from huayños to Elvis Presley music and, within my head, that offered.