Browse: Rolando Villazón (tenor)
This page lists all recordings performed by Rolando Villazón.
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Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedAnja Harteros (soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo), Rolando Villazon (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Pappano's conducting maintains a firm control of his forces, showing a sense of drama that includes an awareness of the importance of some crucial moments of silence. Pappano's soloists are... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Choral Award Winner
2 CDs
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Monteverdi: Combattimento
Rolando Villazón, Patrizia Ciofi & Topi Lehtipuu
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
The atmosphere is electric. Villazón is pouring out Monteverdi’s beautiful lines of remorseful agony with spell-binding force. It’s his first foray into early music, but he tosses off the tricky... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedAnna Netrebko (Mimi), Rolando Villazón (Rodolfo), Nicole Cabell (Musetta), Boaz Daniel (Marcello), Stéphane Degout (Schaunard), Vitalij Kowaljow (Colline), Kevin Connors (Parpignol), Tiziano Bracci (Benoit/Alcindoro)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bertrand de Billy
As Rodolfo, Rolando Villazón is magnificent, by turns ardent and angry and there's a stream of bright golden tone in a ringing 'O soave fanciulla'. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Klaus Florian Vogt (Tamino), Christiane Karg (Pamina), Rolando Villazón (Papageno), Regula Mühlemann (Papagena), Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro), Albina Shagimuratova (Königin der Nacht), Paul Schweinester (Monostatos)
RIAS Kammerchor, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Vogt shows no signs of lightening an oversized voice. In fact, it is impossible to guess that he isn’t a fresh young lyric tenor. By what vocal magic this was accomplished is beyond me, but except... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Villazón)
2 CDs
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedIldebrando D'Arcangelo (Don Giovanni), Luca Pisaroni (Leporello), Diana Damrau (Donna Anna), Joyce DiDonato (Donna Elvira), Rolando Villazón (Don Ottavio), Mojca Erdmann (Zerlina), Konstantin Wolff (Masetto), Vitalij Kowaljow (Commendatore)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
D'Arcangelo's full bass allows this Giovanni to register as a vocal heavyweight, a dominant male who's also an expert seducer...Nézet-Séguin supplies plenty of character, with effective tempos... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th September 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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Opera, December 2012, Recording of the Month
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Building a Library, July 2018, Recommended Recording
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Arias by Gounod and Massenet
RecommendedRolando Villazon (tenor), Natalie Dessay
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Evelino Pido
This is mostly well-planned and executed recital mixes favourites with extracts from operas that have remained rarities, even with the increased interest in late 19th-century repertory. It begins... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Winner - Recital
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Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte, RV 710
Rolando Villazón (Ercole), Patrizia Ciofi (Orizia), Diana Damrau (Martesia), Joyce DiDonato (Ippolita), Vivica Genaux (Antiope), Topi Lehtipuu (Telemone), Philippe Jaroussky (Alceste), Romina Basso (Teseo)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Réédition
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
RecommendedPlacido Domingo (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Mihoko Fujimura (Brangäne), René Pape (König Marke), Olaf Bär (Kurwenal), Jared Holt (Melot), Ian Bostridge (Hirt), Matthew Rose (Steuermann) & Rolando Villazon (Seemann)
Orchestra & Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
At its best this 'Tristan' is overwhelming, leaving the listener shaken — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2005, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Massenet: Werther
RecommendedRolando Villazon (Werther), Sophie Koch (Charlotte), Audun Iversen (Albert), Eri Nakamura (Sophie), Alain Vernhes (Le Bailli), Stuart Patterson (Schmidt), Darren Jeffrey (Johann), Anna Devin (Käthchen), Zhengzhong Zhou (Brühlmann)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,...
[Villazon] successfully negotiates the exposed or awkward passages. In the bigger singing of the third act...there's a touch of the old, devil-may-care Villazon...Even better is [Koch's Charlotte]...But... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th March 2012
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, July 2012, Recording of the Month
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Wagner: Das Rheingold Michael Volle (Wotan), Rolando Villazón (Loge), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Claudia Mahnke (Fricka), Vida Miknevičiūtė (Freia), Mika Kares (Fasolt), Peter Rose (Fafner)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Christian Thielemann, Dmitri Tcherniakov
