Opera's latest dream couple - successors to Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna - are the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko and the Mexican tenor Rolando Villazon, a working team rather than husband and ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When they’re not singing you get the feeling they’re like friendly cousins. But for the music’s sake the ...
With more lavish prerelease publicity than for almost any other recent opera set I can remember, this new Bohème, taken from a series of concert performances in the Gasteig in Munich in April last ...
Rollando VILLAZON is a white-hot Romeo. The electricity this zealous young Mexican tenor generates noticeably excited just about everyone in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night. Everyone, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by MET OPERA REVIEW By Anthony Tommasini Like the behemoth it is, the Metropolitan Opera moves slowly. Because seasons are planned years in advance, it ...
Maybe Rodolfo is right. Maybe Mimi is an incorrigible flirt. In most productions of Puccini's "La Boheme," we meet the seamstress Mimi demurely asking the poet Rodolfo to light her candle. Robert ...
NEW YORK -- It should have been the most glamorous of nights at the opera: the return of Russian superstar soprano Anna Netrebko, reunited with her longtime stage partner, tenor Rolando Villazon.
Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón is the star attraction in this superpower pairing with Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. The tenor's lustrous voice, dramatic projection and vaulting high notes shine in ...
Mexico City — ROLANDO VILLAZON HAS THE OPERA WORLD ON A STRING. The young Mexican tenor just completed a fairy tale year, with acclaimed debuts at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden in ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review | The Metropolitan Opera's 40th Anniversary Gala By Bernard Holland The Metropolitan Opera’s 40th-anniversary gala on Tuesday gave a ...
That was Anna Netrebko’s first reaction when she saw the score for Gaetano Donizetti’s tragic opera “Lucia di Lammermoor,” in which she’s currently starring at the Metropolitan Opera House, the next ...