By Richard Fairman [Financial Times, 10 May 2010]

With his star turn in Donizetti’s La Fille du régiment due for a repeat run at the Royal Opera House, Juan Diego Flórez is back in town. He will want to make sure his pealing runs of high Cs are polished up for the opening night and the Peruvian tenor’s warm-up routine included this solo recital with piano accompaniment on Friday.