Rolando Villazón
CHF
About The Programme
Rolando Villazón’s name is synonymous with passion and temperament! A man full of feeling and enthusiasm, an interpreter who can communicate that passion without any didacticism, one of the most significant singers of our time, a fascinating performer who makes us believe what he sings – in short: an artistic personality who simply always gives his all.
Rolando Villazón experienced his big breakthrough with his brilliant partner Anna Netrebko in Salzburg’s “Traviata” in 2005 – a production that has long since entered the annals of music history. In Andermatt, this exceptional artist can be experienced with a very personal homage to the world of opera: Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Paolo Tosti and others will fill the Andermatt Concert Hall with dramatic, heart-breaking, lovelorn and hopeful melodies.
Villazón, the soulful, star tenor for whom culture is “the soul of society”, found an extraordinary simile for opera in an interview with the cultural journalist Jakob Buhre: the letter. “The singers and musicians are the ink and the pen; the media, record companies and opera houses are the envelope, post office and paper; and there is a recipient, namely the audience. Some expect this letter and always hope to receive more of them. Others don’t even know that these letters still exist. But once they’ve received one, they get this fantastic thing: nourishment for the soul”.
Come and open this “letter” with us, and enjoy the soul food that Rolando Villazón provides when he sings arias from German and Italian operas as well as Neapolitan folk songs, together with the Swiss Orchestra under the direction of Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer. Together, they will transform the podium of the Andermatt Concert Hall into an operatic stage.
Lineup
SWISS ORCHESTRA
LENA-LISA WÜSTENDÖRFER, conductor
ROLANDO VILLAZÓN, tenor
programme
Works by Mozart, Verdi, Tosti and others
Opéra de Monte-Carlo
Monaco
How to get there
BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT
From Montecarlo train station to Foss 10 minutes
Bus lines 1, 5 and 6 to the Casino stop
Bus line 2 to Monte-Carlo or “Office du Tourisme”
BY CAR
Casino Parking
barrier-free access
All rooms have barrier-free access and specially reserved places for people with reduced mobility.
Garderobe
A free and secure cloakroom is available.
evening ticket office
Doors open / late entry
Discount
Through his uniquely compelling performances in leading opera houses and with orchestras around the world, Rolando Villazón has firmly established himself as one of the music world’s most critically acclaimed and beloved stars and as one of the leading tenors of our time. Rolando Villazón is among the most versatile artists of today, maintaining successful careers as a stage director, novelist, and TV personality next to his on-stage career.
Born in Mexico City, he began his musical studies at the national conservatory of his home country before joining the junior programmes at the opera houses in Pittsburgh and at the San Francisco Opera. Rolando Villazón quickly made a name for himself on the international music scene after winning several prizes at Plácido Domingo’s “Operalia” competition in 1999 (including the Zarzuela Prize and the Audience Prize). This was followed in the same year by his European debut as Des Grieux in Massenet’s “Manon” in Genoa and debuts as Alfredo in “La Traviata” at the Opéra de Paris and as Macduff in Verdi’s “Macbeth” at the Berlin State Opera. Since then, Rolando Villazón has been a regular guest at the State Operas of Berlin, Munich and Vienna, La Scala Milan, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera New York and the Salzburg Festival, working with leading orchestras and renowned conductors such as Daniel Barenboim and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In 2011 Rolando Villazón made his debut as a director in Lyon and since then has directed for the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, the Vienna Volksoper and the Semperoper in Dresden.
In the 2021-22 season he is returning to the Metropolitan Opera in New York for the role of Papageno in Mozart’s “Magic Flute” and is touring throughout Europe with the harpist Xavier de Maistre and their recital programme “Serenata Latina”, with performances at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Musikverein in Graz, the Konzerthaus in Freiburg and the Liederhalle in Stuttgart. Rolando Villazón celebrated his 50th birthday with a high-profile benefit gala concert on 21 February 2022 at the Haus für Mozart in Salzburg. He will end the current season by directing “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” at both the Salzburg Whitsun Festival and the 2022 Salzburg Festival.
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