Un aura amorosa

Juan Diego Flórez was born in Lima, Peru, on January 13, 1973 where his father was a noted guitarist and singer of Peruvian popular and criolla music.
He received a scholarship to the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia where he studied from 1993 to 1996 and began singing in student opera productions in the repertory that is still his specialty today, Rossini and the belcanto operas of Bellini and Donizetti.
Flórez's first breakthrough and professional debut came in 1996, at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Rossini's birthplace. He made his debut at La Scala in the same year in Gluck's Armide. His Covent Garden debut followed in 1997 where he sang in a world premiere concert performance of Donizetti's Elisabetta. Debuts followed at the Vienna State Opera in 1999 as Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 2002, again as Count Almaviva.

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Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (Thus Do They All, or The School For Lovers) K. 588, is an Italian language opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed in 1790. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

Act 1. A coffeehouse. Ferrando, left alone, praises his love (aria: Un'aura amorosa—"A loving breath").

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