Antonio Pappano, billed as a bass (but surely a tenor leggiero), joins Rolando Villazón on his latest recording.
'A' for effort.
Rolando Villazon
15 February 2014
12 February 2014
Rolando on telly again
Straight after finishing his recent run as Don Ottavio at the Vienna State Opera, Rolando Villazón dashed off to Prague to shoot a TV documentary about the premiere of Don Giovanni. The BBC are expected to air it in April or May.
Of his recent Vienna performance, the Kurier said "Villazón's a fighter who compensates for any vocal shortcomings with such charisma and commitment that he can shape even a pallid character like Don Ottavio. And the audience loves Villazón for it."
27 December 2013
08 May 2013
Villazon on Verdi
On BBC4 on Friday 10 May at 7.30pm for one whole hour, Rolando Villazón probes The Genius of Verdi.
Let's hope it's as entertaining as his last BBC documentary, What Makes a Great Tenor.
07 May 2013
Rolando Villazon gets chopped in half
Get half price tickets for Rolando at the Royal Festival Hall on 15 May with a Time Out offer.
The discount is only valid on the bottom three price bands (no front stalls), and you don't get to pick your seat. Prices after discount run from £21 to £34.
Time Out also have a half price offer for ENO's Wozzeck (dress circle and upper circle seats only).
18 December 2012
La boheme is back
La bohème - Royal Opera House, 17 December 2012
When Rodolfo sounds more consumptive than Mimì, you’ve got a problem. Post-surgery, Rolando Villazón has had his ups and downs, but he was singing much better in Salzburg this summer than he could manage last night in the 999th revival of John Copley's La bohème. The notes were (mostly) there; the volume wasn’t. Despite Mark Elder’s considerate restraint, the orchestra often washed over him, and he bottled a few key phrases, not to mention their money notes. I can only hope for Rolando’s sake it was just an off night, perhaps a touch of the respiratory lurgy that seemed to afflict half the audience.
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