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Rolando Villazon

Treasures of Bel Canto

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Tour Dates

11/15/2019 - Hamburgische Staatsoper / Hamburg, Germany
11/17/2019 - Hamburgische Staatsoper / Hamburg, Germany
11/20/2019 - Hamburgische Staatsoper / Hamburg, Germany
11/23/2019 - Hamburgische Staatsoper / Hamburg, Germany
01/27/2020 - Mozart Wohnhaus / Salzburg, Austria
02/28/2020 - Anhaltisches Theater / Dessau-Roslau, Germany
03/18/2020 - Stadthalle / Reutlingen, Germany
03/19/2020 - Philharmonie / Luxembourg, Luxembourg
03/25/2020 - Palau de la M?sica Catalana / Barcelona, Spain
04/02/2020 - Kimmel Center / Philadelphia, PA
04/03/2020 - Carnegie Hall / New York, NY
04/04/2020 - Kimmel Center / Philadelphia, PA
04/05/2020 - Kimmel Center / Philadelphia, PA
04/28/2020 - Philharmonie / Cologne, Germany
05/02/2020 - Konzerthaus / Vienna, Austria
05/05/2020 - Musikverein fur Steiemark / Graz, Austria
1 Ma rendi pur content  
2 Malinconia, ninfa gentile  
3 Vaga luna, che inargenti  
4 Torna, vezzosa Fillide  
5 Deh, pietoso, o Addolorata  
6 Non t accostare all urna  
7 Il poveretto  
8 Il mistero  
9 L amor funesto  
10 Una lagrima (Preghiera)  
11 Il sospiro  
12 La M?re et l Enfant  
13 L esule  
14 La danza  
15 La lontananza  
16 Tirana pour deux voix  
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Italian music in the 19th century is most often summed up in a single word: opera. Yet, for all its importance, opera was only the magnificent tip of the iceberg of Italian musical life. Instrumental, orchestral and, in particular, sacred music all abounded in Ottocento Italy.  The fours composers featured in this all-new recital are all known mostly for their operatic output, yet each was also an accomplished writer of songs, a fact that Rolando Villazón has chosen to highlight.

Rolando Villazón calls the songs simply "these little treasures". The Mexican-born tenor has sung several 19th-century Italian art songs over the years in his many recitals with piano, just as other great tenors have done down the ages. But in 2012 Villazón decided that they could be the building blocks of something rather bigger. "I saw there was a project for me here, of songs that are well-known and songs that I didn't know at the time, and that are not well-known at all except to specialist scholars. I just started searching."

  • Rolando Villazon headlines The Metropolitan Operas The Magic Flute / OperaWire
    Posted At: December 12, 2021
    OperaWire's Francisco Salazar writes….The Metropolitan Opera is set to celebrate the holiday season with its family-friendly version of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” for nine performances. The opera, which opened on Dec. 10, 2021, is set to run until Jan. 5, 2022. The English-language adaptation of the classic fairy tale, performed in a 115-minute abridged version is directed by Julie Taymor.The production wil...

  • Rolando Villazon hits Austrian and German stages in 2020 / The Berlin Spectator
    Posted At: December 28, 2019

    Rolando Villazón is one of the most famous tenors of his generation. Villazón is scheduled to hit as many as five Austrian and German stages in 2020. The opera he will be performing in is Claudio Monteverdi's ‘L'Orfeo'. Opera lovers in Germany have every reason to rejoice. The French-Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón will be bringing ‘L'Orfeo' to Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig, D&u...

  • Rolando Villazon is set to make 'Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod' debut / OPERAWire
    Posted At: June 7, 2019

    Rolando Villazón is set to make his Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod debut at the festival's Classical Gala on Jul. 2, 2019. The star tenor is honored to be following in the footsteps of Luciano Pavarotti, who "first sang [on the Llangollen stage] with his father's choir from Modena in Italy in 1955 before returning in triumph 40 years later as an international superstar." Howe...

  • 5th of 7 Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Rolando Villazon - Mozart operas for DG, now out / ClassicsToday
    Posted At: August 20, 2018

    This is the fifth in Yannick Nézet-Séguin's and Rolando Villazon's undertakings of seven Mozart operas to be laid down for DG. The Don G was terrific, the Cosi and Abduction filled with fine moments, and the Nozze mediocre. Nézet-Séguin's approach has been consistent–a wise mixture of traditional Mozart playing that would not be out of place on a Colin Davis or Karl B&ou...

  • Villazon, Abdrazakov, Nezet-Seguin in a thrilling choice of dramatic and comic duets / WFMT 'Featured New Release'
    Posted At: November 11, 2017

    Two of the world's top opera stars – Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón and Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov – are joined by dynamic young Canadian maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, future music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, for a thrilling choice of dramatic and comic duets. The program features music from great 19th-century Italian and French operas, including th...

  • Rolando Villazon - Treasures of Bel Canto / WFMT: New Release Of the Week
    Posted At: November 22, 2015

    Italian music in the 19th century is most often summed up in a single word: opera. Yet, for all its importance, opera was only the magnificent tip of the iceberg of Italian musical life. Instrumental, orchestral and, in particular, sacred music all abounded in Ottocento Italy.  The fours composers featured in this all-new recital are all known mostly for their operatic output, yet each was also an a...

  • Rolando Villazon plays Cadogan Hall: London / The Guardian review
    Posted At: May 7, 2014

    Sometimes one heads to a concert alert with uncertainty about the event. For example, here was one of the big-name lyric tenor charmers popping up in the relative intimacy of Cadogan Hall, in a programme of Mozart, not the Italian warhorses. And he was singing not even mainstream operatic Mozart, but concert arias that mostly remain on the margins of the repertoire. Yet if Rolando Villazó...
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