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, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When they’re not singing you get the feeling they’re like friendly cousins. But for the music’s sake the ...

With more lavish prerelease publicity than for almost any other recent opera set I can remember, this new Bohème, taken from a series of concert performances in the Gasteig in Munich in April last ...

Opera's latest dream couple - successors to Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna - are the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko and the Mexican tenor Rolando Villazon, a working team rather than husband and ...

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.

His label Deutsche Grammophon is taking advantage of the exponential hoik in profile to release Tenor, a new CD of operatic favourites, some culled from his back catalogue, interleaved with the odd ...

That was Anna Netrebko’s first reaction when she saw the score for Gaetano Donizetti’s tragic opera “Lucia di Lammermoor,” in which she’s currently starring at the Metropolitan Opera House, the next ...