Jorge Bolet in Lima 1983

El Comercio (Lima, Perú), 23 July 1983

Jorge Bolet's second visit (after 1982) to Peru and the The City of Kings, Ciudad de los Reyes. Monday 25 July 1983 in the Auditorio Santa Ursula, Lima. He had arrived in Lima on Monday 18th at 5:20am. There were orchestral rehearsals on 20 and 22. This was a dangerous time to be in Peru.

​Sendero Luminoso, a notorious terrorist organisation, was orchestrating a brutal campaign for against the country.

23 July 1983 (Saturday) in Arequipa, Peru, the second most populated city of the country, and birthplace of Peruvian author and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025)

Schumann, Fantasiestücke

Brahms, Handel variations

Liszt, Petrarch Sonnets & Hungarian Rhapsody No.12

Jorge then flew back to the capital on the 24th.

25 July 1983

Auditorio Santa Úrsula, Lima, Peru

C. Franck, Symphonic Variations

Rachmaninoff, Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op.18

Orquesta Sinfónica de la Escuela de Música/ Peruvian conductor Armando Sánchez Málaga

The auditorium was on Av. Santo Toribio 150, in the upmarket suburb of San Isidro.

Jorge then travelled to Brazil, but he was back in Lima for a recital on Wednesday, 3 August 1983: Schumann, Brahms, Liszt (same as Arequipa, 23rd)