I don't like to fill up my schedule. It's easy to do, but then that year arrives, and you find that you have no time, so you are desperately trying to cancel something. I have to think of my family.

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• Juan Diego Florez:

  Sometimes at my performances, I see Peruvian flags in the audience. I've never seen, when an Italia

• Juan Diego Florez:

  Some people might hate someone who is successful, but in Peru, they love it! It makes them feel the

• Juan Diego Florez:

  In Peru, there is no theatre that produces an annual opera season, and though there is one orchestr

• Juan Diego Florez:

  With El Sistema, you can create orchestras everywhere; then they can decide whether they want to be

• Juan Diego Florez:

  My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don't earn any money

• Juan Diego Florez:

  I don't push my voice; I try to keep a good technique, a natural way of singing, to sing from the b

• Juan Diego Florez:

  I created a foundation for poor children called Sinfonia por el Peru, where they play in orchestras

• Juan Diego Florez:

  I now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Mid

• Juan Diego Florez:

  I think spontaneous and free reactions are the most natural.

• Juan Diego Florez:

  In my concerts, people love when I sing a Latin encore with guitar.