Rolando Villazón
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Emilio Rolando Villazón Mauleón (b. February 22, 1972, in Mexico City) is a Mexican tenor. He is currently in international demand as an opera singer, and also maintains an active recording career. He has recorded three solo CDs with Virgin Classics and is additionally featured, along with Patrizia Ciofi and Topi Lehtipuu, on the upcoming CD recording of Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio Monteverdi, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm.
In August 2005, he sang a highly regarded Alfredo with Anna Netrebko as Violetta Valéry in Verdi's La Traviata at the Salzburg Festival, conducted by Carlo Rizzi and directed by Willy Decker.
In 2007, Mr Villazón will switch his recording company - he has already signed an exclusive long-term contract with Deutsche Grammophon. His final album under the Virgin Classics contract, an album of Zarzuelas under the baton of Plácido Domingo, is planned for release in Spring 2007. An album of operatic duets featuring Rolando Villazón and Anna Netrebko has recently been recorded with the Dresdener Staatskapelle under Nicola Luisotti for Deutsche Grammophon and is expected to be released in early 2007.
[edit] Discography
- Romeo y Julieta CD (2002), Radio Televisión Española
- Der Fliegende Holländer CD (2002), Teldec Classics
- Berlioz: La Révolution Grecque CD (2004), EMI Classics
- Italian Opera Arias CD (2004), Virgin Classics
- Gounod & Massenet Arias CD (2005), Virgin Classics
- Tristan und Isolde CDs and DVD (2005), EMI Classics
- Don Carlo 2 DVDs (2005), Opus Arte
- La Traviata CD (2005), Deutsche Grammophon
- Merry Christmas (Soundtrack) CD (2005), Virgin Classics
- Opera Recital CD; bonus edition with DVD (2006), Virgin Classics
- La Traviata DVD; premium 2-DVD edition (behind the scenes, rehearsals, introduction to the opera etc.) (2006), Salzburger Festspiele 2005, Deutsche Grammophon
- La Bohème DVD (2006), Bregenzer Festspiele 2002, ORF + Capriccio
- Monteverdi: Il Combattimento CD; bonus edition with DVD (2006), Virgin Classics
- Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore DVD (2006), Virgin Classics
- The Berlin Concert: Live from the Waldbühne DVD (2006), Deutsche Grammophon
- Gitano CD; bonus edition with DVD (February 2007), Virgin Classics
- Duets featuring Rolando Villazón and Anna Netrebko CD; bonus edition with DVD (March 2007), Deutsche Grammophon
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