Rolando Villazón reviews
Monteverdi: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria
Rolando Villazón et al; dir. Mariame Clément (Paris, 2017) Erato (DVD)
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
Rolando Villazón, Joyce DiDonato, Marina Rebeka, Regula Mühlemann, Tara Erraught, Adam Plachetka; RIAS Kammerchor; Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG)
Duets by Bizet, Boito, Donizetti, Verdi, Gounod, Lara and F. Hermann
This is boys having fun. And the CD is at its best when the composer is having fun too. So Rolando Villazón and Ildar Abdrazakov make the most of Donizetti’s Act I duet from L’eslisir d’amore, with Villazón a plaintive love-sick Nemorino and Abdrazakov a snake-like Dulcamara.