Accompanied by pianist Vincenzo Scalera, the 33-year-old coloratura tenor will sing a program of Mozart, Rossini, Rosa Mercedes Ayarza de Morales, Faur_, Massenet, Bizet, and Donizetti. "Judging from what I heard at Oberlin," wrote Charles Michener in The New York Observer, "it will be an electrifying event."

Fl‹rez might even treat the Carnegie audience to one of the encores he sang in Ohio: the famous (or notorious) showpiece "Ah! Mes amis ... Pour mon ê¢me" from Donizetti's La Fille du regiment — in which, Michener wrote, he "popped off its nine high Cs with an effortlessness that would have made Pavarotti gasp."