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 ...

When tenor Xabier Anduaga first auditioned for Riccardo Frizza, the conductor recalls that “he opened his mouth, and after ...

Rolando Villazon has driven Los Angeles Opera audiences to near frenzy as a dashing Romeo, a passionate Alfredo and most recently a fate-driven Des Gieux. Friday, in the new Renee and Henry Segerstrom ...

The Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón, whose wife is a psychologist, likes to imagine himself in group therapy with the characters he portrays on stage. "Alfredo [in Verdi's La traviata] would say: 'Well ...

At a certain point, I thought maybe this is the end of my career, you know, a fast career that just burned out. Tenor Rolando Villazón had everything going for him. Just four years ago, the Mexican ...

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" in New York on Sept.

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...