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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Nov. 21, 2013 photo released by the Metropolitan Opera shows Rolando Villazon Lenski in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin," at the ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) – It's an opera singer's nightmare: Suddenly, in mid-performance, the voice fails to respond — and instead of a high note, the audience hears a painful croak. To Rolando Villazon, it ...

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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 is very ...

“I said, ‘oh, this last act is very difficult. He shot himself and keeps singing for 40 minutes.' And so, what would I do?” he recalled. “And I started inventing, creating for fun a staging.” Nearly ...