Between 23 October and 11 November, 2008 Juan Diego Flórez will be at Covent Garden Opera House performing the lead tenor role Corradino in Matilde Di Shabran by Gioachino Rossini. It was with brilliant bel canto singing in 1996 in the same "Matilde di Shabran" in Pesaro - Rossini's birthplace - that JDF first came to fame and "then shot to worldwide stardom"