Tenor

Rolando Villazón

Gala Concert

Biography

Through his uniquely compelling performances, Rolando Villazón has firmly established himself among the music world’s most critically acclaimed and beloved stars and as one of the leading artistic voices of our day. Celebrated and loved by critics and audiences alike, Villazón's versatility is unique: in addition to his 25 years in an elite international performance career, he is also a stage director, novelist, artistic director and television/radio presenter. 

In the 2025-26 season, Rolando Villazón can be heard at the Vienna State Opera as Pelléas in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and as Eisenstein in Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich. Villazón makes his directing debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, staging a new production of La sonnambula. He further directs a new production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte for the Salzburg Mozart Week Festival and returns to the Deutsche Oper Berlin to direct a new production of Rossini‘s L’Italiana in Algeri. 

On the concert stage, Villazón celebrates Mozart’s 270th anniversary with a nine-city European tour alongside PRJCT Amsterdam and Maarten Engeltjes, reunites with lautten compagney BERLIN to present their programme Viaggio dell’anima and performs with the Kammerakademie Potsdam and François Leleux and in recitals with piano and with harpist Xavier de Maistre. 

 May 2026