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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re a certain type of opera lover — a guy, say, or maybe a girl — you may want to sit in the front row for Los Angeles Opera’s new production of Massenet’s “Manon.” You see there’s this very ...

Giacomo Puccini, "La Boheme" (Deutsche Grammophon): With at least a dozen recordings of Puccini's "La Boheme" readily available from Amazon.com, why another? The answer lies in the commercial ...

Rolando Villazón Directs Opera at the World's Top Houses While Still Singing NEW YORK (AP) — Tenor Rolando Villazón was singing the title role in Massenet's “Werther” in 2006 at Nice, France, when he ...

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.