Over the past few years Rolando Villazón has explored many different avenues. The popular tenor recorded albums of Mexican folk music, dedicated himself to film music and discovered the baroque composer Monteverdi afresh. However, today’s concert programme presents the singer returning yet again to the roots of his art. Villazón and Verdi – truly a classic combination. And the public thank him most profusely. 

Rolando Villazón Tenor 
Guerassim Voronkov Conductor
Czech National Symphony Orchestra

Rolando Villazón takes the audience into the magical, dramatic and serene opera world of Giuseppe Verdi.

Giuseppe Verdi

Ouverture to the opera "Nabucco"
"Io l’ho perduta", aria from the opera "Don Carlo"
Preludio to the opera "I masnadieri"
"Eccomi prigioniero!", aria from the opera "Il corsaro"
"Il mistero" ("Se tranquillo a te daccanto"), orchestral song, arranged by Luciano Berio
Ouverture to the opera "Luisa Miller"
"Quando le sere al placido", Rodolfo's aria from the opera aus der Oper "Luisa Miller"

Preludio to the opera "Otello"
"Ciel, che feci!...Ciel pietoso", Riccardo's aria from the opera "Oberto"
Balletti from the opera "Macbeth"
"Ah, la paterna mano", Macduff's aria from the opera "Macbeth"
Ouverture to the opera "I Vespri Siciliani"
"Deh, pietoso, oh Addolorata", orchestral song, arranged by Luciano Berio
"L’esule", orchestral song, arranged by Luciano Berio  

A collaboration of Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Universal Music Arts & Entertainment

Finishing time approx.: 10.00 pm