Winner of a Victoire de la musique classique in 2003, Franco-Mexican tenor
Rolando Villazón, born in Mexico in 1972, achieved international acclaim at the
Salzburg Festival in 2007 in La Traviata with Anna Netrebko. This dazzling start
to his career was interrupted by health problems over the following two seasons.
Rolando Villazón made a spectacular comeback in autumn 2010 with ¡México ! an
opus devoted to the popular Mexican repertoire. In 2013, he twice celebrates his
favorite composer Giuseppe Verdi with Deutsche Grammophon's Verdi and the older
Sings Verdi recordings for Vir...