Browse: DVD Video, Rolando Villazón (tenor)
Verdi: Don Carlo
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Five-act version, sung in Italian
Rolando Villazon (Don Carlo), Marina Poplavskaya (Elisabetta di Valois), Simon Keenlyside (Rodrigo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Philip II), Sonia Ganassi (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Grand Inquisitor)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Nicholas Hytner
the love-torn relationship of the titular prince and the fiancée stolen from him by his father the king is sensitively staged and played: Rolando Villazon (in less uncertain voice than reportedly... — More…
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Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Rolando Villazón (Ulysse), Magdalena Kožená (Pénélope), Katherine Watson (Junon), Kresimir Spicer (Eumée), Anne-Catherine Gillet (L’Amour/Minerve), Maarten Engeltjes (La Fragilité humaine/ Pisandre), Callum Thorpe (Le Temps/Antinoüs)
Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
Clément’s ‘pop vision’ of the opera muddles historical periods and genres in an attempt to convey the work’s timeless universality…Among the chaos, Magdalena Kožená retains her dignity, pouring... — More…
Massenet: Manon
Natalie Dessay (Manon), Rolando Villazon (Le Chevalier des Grieux), Samuel Ramey (Le Comte des Grieux), Manuel Lanza (Lescaut)
Orquesta Sinfónica e coro del Gran Teatre del Liceu, Victor Pablo Pérez
David Caviar's production of Massenet's masterpiece is strong on period flavour… It's strong, too, in the delineation and interaction of the two protagonists… Dessay's Manon shines, not only... — More…
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Rolando Villazón (Nemorino), Anna Netrebko (Adina), Leo Nucci (Belcore), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Dulcamara), Inna Los (Giannetta)
Orchester & Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Alfred Eschwé
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
María Bayo (Adina), Rolando Villazón (Nemorino), Jean-Luc Chaignaud (Belcore), Bruno Praticò (Dulcamara), Cristina Obregón (Giannetta)
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Daniele Callegari (musical director) & Mario Gas (stage director)
Rolando Villazón is here on top form, fleshing out the notes with alternate delicacy and vehemence and personifying the shy, frustrated hero with a Chaplinesque range of gesture and mannerism...María... — More…
Verdi: La Traviata
Anna Netrebko (Violetta), Rolando Villazón (Alfredo), Thomas Hampson (Germont), Helene Schneiderman (Flora), Diane Pilcher (Annina), Salvatore Cordella (Gastone), Paul Gay (Barone), Herman Wallén (Marchese), Luigi Roni (Grenvil)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlo Rizzi, Brian Large
One of the finest available versions of La traviata available on video. — More…
Verdi: Don Carlo
Recommended
Four-act version
Rolando Villazón (Don Carlo), Robert Lloyd (King Philip), Amanda Roocroft (Elisabeth), Violeta Urmana (Eboli), Dwayne Croft (Posa), Jaakko Ryhänen (Grand Inquisitor), Giorgio Giuseppini (Monk)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & De Nederlandse Opera Chorus, Riccardo Chailly, stage direction...
Decker's direction of the principals provides both intelligent insights into relationships along with many bêtises that surely go against the composer's intentions. …he certainly manages to... — More…
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Puccini: La Bohème
Anna Netrebko (Mimi), Rolando Villazón (Rodolfo), Nicole Cabell (Musetta), George van Bergen (Marcello), Adrian Eröd (Schaunard), Vitaly Kovalyov (Colline), Tiziano Brazzo (Benoît)
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand de Billy
…Bohème has attracted filmmakers since silent days, but never as convincingly as this. …Oscar-nominated director Robert Dornhelm lends the story a darker glow, with Bertrand de Billy's soft-centred... — More…
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Massenet: Manon
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Anna Netrebko (Manon), Rolando Villazón (Des Grieux), Alfredo Daza (Lescaut), Christof Fischesser (Le Comte des Grieux), Rémy Corazza (Guillot de Morfontaine), Arttu Kataja (De Brétigny), Hanan Alattar (Poussette)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Vincent Paterson
[Netrebko] is a real stage animal, constantly reacting to what is happening around her — More…
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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Rolando Villazón, Nino Machaidze, Mikhail Petrenko, Russell Braun, Cora Burggraaf, Falk Struckmann & Juan Francisco Gatell
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Yannick Nézet-Séguin