"I don't think he's yet ready, and if he'll ever be ready for that new job of directing an opera."
Reliable local bloggeur Les pêcheurs de perles delivers a scathing assessment of Rolando Villazón's directorial debut in Lyon last night.
Globe-trotting grumpster Rupert Christiansen of the Telegraph concurs: "I doubt directing will be Villazón’s future any more than it was Callas’s."
