BERLIN – Placido Domingo's eyes filled with water and his voice choked with emotion. He was singing ahead of the World Cup soccer final, and his frequent partner was ailing. It was exactly 16 years to ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 YORKNEW YORK — Director Robert Dornhelm’s movie version of Puccini’s most beloved opera, “La Boheme,” is a handsome piece of work, using lavish sets and costumes to bring bohemian Paris of the ...

Villazón the Director This image released by the Metropolitan Opera shows soprano Nadine Sierra, standing, rehearsing with director Rolando Villazón for his new production of Bellini’s “La Sonnambula" ...

NEW YORK – Tenor Rolando Villazón was singing the title role in Massenet's “Werther” in 2006 at Nice, France, when he started thinking about how he would direct the opera. “I said, ‘oh, this last act ...