Latest News: Classical, Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
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Recording of the Week,
Mozart's La clemenza di Tito from Yannick Nézet-Séguin 13th July 2018Marina Rebeka and Joyce DiDonato strike sparks off one another as Vitellia and Sesto in a terrific new recording of Mozart's final opera, with Rolando Villazón as the idealistic emperor against whom they conspire.
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Recording of the Week,
Jules Massenet - Werther & Don Quichotte 12th March 2012Rolando Villazón brings apposite wildness and fragility to Goethe’s tortured poet, with Antonio Pappano presiding over a visceral, near-Italianate performance from the Covent Garden orchestra, whilst Ferruccio Furlanetto is heart-breaking as the ‘knight of the doleful countenance’ from the Mariinsky.
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Recording of the Week,
A La Bohème for all 5th May 2008Anna Netrebko is the Parisian seamstress with the cold hands and Rolando Villazón is the poet who finds her door-key on this new recording from Bertrand de Billy and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.