Justino Díaz
Birthday
1940/01/29 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Also know as
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Biography
Justino Díaz (born January 29, 1940) is a Puerto Rican operatic bass-baritone. In 1963, Díaz won an annual contest held at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, becoming the first Puerto Rican to obtain such an honor and as a consequence, made his Metropolitan debut in October 1963 in Verdi's Rigoletto as Monterone. Díaz was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the capital of the island, but lived and was raised in the town of Cataño. He attended Robinson Elementary School where, at the age of 8, he st...Read more
Acting
(1977) Rigoletto
as Sparafucile
(2002) Callas Forever
as Scarpia
(1988) Meyerbeer: L'Africaine
as Nélusko
(2015) La familia Figueroa: una dinastía musical
as Himself
(1992) Rafael Hernández, jibarito del mundo
as Himself
(1967) Bizet Carmen
as Escamillo
(1986) Otello
as Iago
(2017) The Opera House
as Self (archive footage)
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
(1971) Great Performances
as Oroveso