Rolando Villazón
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedIldebrando D'Arcangelo (Don Giovanni), Luca Pisaroni (Leporello), Diana Damrau (Donna Anna), Joyce DiDonato (Donna Elvira), Rolando Villazón (Don Ottavio), Mojca Erdmann (Zerlina), Konstantin Wolff (Masetto), Vitalij Kowaljow (Commendatore)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
D'Arcangelo's full bass allows this Giovanni to register as a vocal heavyweight, a dominant male who's also an expert seducer...Nézet-Séguin supplies plenty of character, with effective tempos... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th September 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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Opera, December 2012, Recording of the Month
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Building a Library, July 2018, Recommended Recording
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedAnna Netrebko (Mimi), Rolando Villazón (Rodolfo), Nicole Cabell (Musetta), Boaz Daniel (Marcello), Stéphane Degout (Schaunard), Vitalij Kowaljow (Colline), Kevin Connors (Parpignol), Tiziano Bracci (Benoit/Alcindoro)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bertrand de Billy
As Rodolfo, Rolando Villazón is magnificent, by turns ardent and angry and there's a stream of bright golden tone in a ringing 'O soave fanciulla'. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Combattimento
Rolando Villazón, Patrizia Ciofi & Topi Lehtipuu
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
The atmosphere is electric. Villazón is pouring out Monteverdi’s beautiful lines of remorseful agony with spell-binding force. It’s his first foray into early music, but he tosses off the tricky... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Arias by Gounod and Massenet
RecommendedRolando Villazon (tenor), Natalie Dessay
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Evelino Pido
This is mostly well-planned and executed recital mixes favourites with extracts from operas that have remained rarities, even with the increased interest in late 19th-century repertory. It begins... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Winner - Recital
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte, RV 710
Rolando Villazón (Ercole), Patrizia Ciofi (Orizia), Diana Damrau (Martesia), Joyce DiDonato (Ippolita), Vivica Genaux (Antiope), Topi Lehtipuu (Telemone), Philippe Jaroussky (Alceste), Romina Basso (Teseo)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Réédition
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Klaus Florian Vogt (Tamino), Christiane Karg (Pamina), Rolando Villazón (Papageno), Regula Mühlemann (Papagena), Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro), Albina Shagimuratova (Königin der Nacht), Paul Schweinester (Monostatos)
RIAS Kammerchor, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Vogt shows no signs of lightening an oversized voice. In fact, it is impossible to guess that he isn’t a fresh young lyric tenor. By what vocal magic this was accomplished is beyond me, but... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Villazón)
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Anna Netrebko sings Verdi (standard CD edition)
RecommendedAnna Netrebko (soprano)
Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino, Gianandrea Noseda
In many ways, Netrebko justifies her decision to tackle Verdi. She provides singing of sufficient amplitude and power to encompass the needs of Elisabeth de Valois...[and] is at her most expressive... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th August 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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Abdrazakov’s fine bass voice draws out the best in reflective pieces such as ‘D’Egitto la sui lidi’ from Nabucco and ‘Che mai vegg’io’ from Ernani…But he sometimes tends to sing the melody rather... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year
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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
RecommendedRolando Villazón (Tito), Marina Rebeka (Vitellia), Joyce DiDonato (Sesto), Tara Erraught (Annio), Regula Mühlemann (Servilia), Adam Plachetka (Publio)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, RIAS Kammerchor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Apart from her gorgeous voice, DiDonato possesses a grace perfect for the role, soaring to expressive heights in her final six-minute aria…Marina Rebeka is DiDonato’s ideal vocal and dramatic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th July 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Opera Choice
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Handel Gold
RecommendedKiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Cecilia Bartoli, Plácido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Anne Sofie von Otter, Luciano Pavarotti, Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Joyce DiDonato, Russell Oberlin, Nigel Robson, Kathleen Ferrier, Bryn Terfel, Janet Baker, Magdalena Kozena, Grace...
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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