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Argentine export: in Buenos Aires, Marcelo Alvarez was considered just another country boy from Cordoba. He left Argentina behind, and today he's one of the hottest tenors on the international scene.(Interview)

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Marcelo Alvarez is a tenor to be watched--vocally gifted, theatrically intense, handsome, Latin, opinionated, ambitious and business-oriented to boot. Born in Cordoba, Argentina, some 400 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, Alvarez did not leave his hometown--or see an opera--until the age of thirty. At that point, he left behind his job selling furniture for what has become, in a surprisingly short time, a blooming international career. He has done in less than ten years what few others do in twenty-five. Who knows what he can do in ten more?

Alvarez made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1998, as Alfredo in the new Franco Zeffirelli production of La Traviata, and ...

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