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After two directorial productions and 21 appearances as a singer, Rolando Villazón returns to the Deutsche Oper Berlin this March, directing Rossini’s raucous bel canto comedy, L’Italiana in Algeri. 

Villazón’s L’Italiana isn’t set in Algeria or even Itay. The comedy is reimagined as a Mexican professional wrestling spectacle, featuring the high-flying acrobatics and dramatic…

This January, Rolando Villazón directs Mozart’s beloved Singspiel, Die Zauberflöte, as part of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation’s Mozartwoche.  Since 2019, Villazón has been responsible for the renowned Mozartwoche festival as Artistic Director, and in the summer of 2021, he took over the entire Artistic Direction of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation. Performances will take place at the…

Rolando Villazón rings in the new year with Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, bringing his “vocally assured” and “clownish, skillfully naive, but actually quite funny” (Der Opernfreund) portrayal of Gabriel von Eisenstein to audiences in Munich. Villazón joins an all-star cast in Barrie Kosky’s colorful, energetic production, praised as “a hit anchored somewhere between burlesque…

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,…