I suppose I should have known. Within two chords the continuo player’s music stand had collapsed with a loud thud. As with the falling picture in Der Freischütz, the misbehaving inanimate object was a ...

IT IS encouraging to report that this disc of Handel arias finds Rolando Villazon in top form. Handel, a composer new to him, suits the Mexican tenor's florid, focused tone and his extraordinary vocal ...

Rolando Villazón: Clowning around in Handel, but singing with irresistible charm and immediacy All of which burnished the aura and presentation of his concert last night of Handel opera arias with the ...

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 ...