If you’re a certain type of opera lover — a guy, say, or maybe a girl — you may want to sit in the front row for Los Angeles Opera’s new production of Massenet’s “Manon.” You see there’s this very ...

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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.

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Director Robert Dornhelm’s movie version of Puccini’s most beloved opera, “La Boheme,” is a handsome piece of work, using lavish sets and costumes to bring bohemian Paris of the ...

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, ...

Giacomo Puccini, "La Boheme" (Deutsche Grammophon): With at least a dozen recordings of Puccini's "La Boheme" readily available from Amazon.com, why another? The answer lies in the commercial ...

Villazón the Director This image released by the Metropolitan Opera shows soprano Nadine Sierra, standing, rehearsing with director Rolando Villazón for his new production of Bellini’s “La Sonnambula" ...

Star tenor Rolando Villazon has canceled his May 2010 premiere of "Carmen" in Vienna as he recovers from surgery to remove a cyst on his larynx. Villazon was to have appeared alongside soprano Anna ...

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 ...