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This fall, Rolando Villazón returns to the Vienna Staatsoper, debuting as Pelléas in Marco Arturo Marelli’s production of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. Composed in 1901, this stunning work is Debussy’s only completed opera, a Symbolist masterpiece imbued with deep meaning and a shimmering musical language. Marelli’s production sets the action in what resembles a flooded bunker, a…

Rolando Villazón returns to The Metropolitan Opera, this time acting as stage director for Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece, La Sonnambula. A co-production of The Met, Opéra de Nice Côte d’Azur, Semperoper Dresden, and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Villazón’s thoughtful vision retains the La Sonnambula’s original setting in the Swiss Alps, but uses its sleepwalking plot to explore…

On August 23, Rolando Villazón and his regular collaborator, Sarah Tysman, appear in recital at Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark. The two will present an expressive and vibrant exploration of the Italian songbook, tracing its evolution from the early masters to the Romanticism of Verdi and Puccini. 

The evening opens in the early 18th century with the music of Scarlatti,…

This August, Rolando Villazón appears in concert at several European venues, singing music that ranges from Baroque masterpieces to the drama of Verdi.

On August 2, Villazón joins the Capella Cracoviensis, led by Jan Tomasz Adamus, at the Bach Festival Swidnica. Capella Cracoviensis specializes in early music, Renaissance polyphonies, Polish Baroque, and classical chamber music, all played…

On July 20, Rolando Villazón travels to Wiesbaden for an open-air concert of at the Rheingau Musik Festival. The yearly festival takes place in Germany’s Rheingau wine region, running from late June to early September and offering over 150 events at historic venues like Kloster Eberbach Abbey, Schloss Johannisberg, Schloss Vollrads, and the Kurhaus Wiesbaden.

Villazón appears with the…

On July 5 and 6, Rolando Villazón joins the Bruckner Orchestra Linz for a genre-defying concert, part of the Salzkammergut Festwochen Gmunden. The concerts take place at the Ebensee Saltworks, a historic site and modern salt production facility that doubles as one of Central Europe’s most stunning concert halls.

Led by the BOL’s Chief Conductor, Markus Poschner, Villazón will join Linz…