New York- New York (AP) – tenor Rolando Willison sang the main role in the Werther Massenet in 2006 in Nice, France, when he began to think about how he would direct the opera.
“I said:“ Oh, this last act is very complicated. He shot and continues to sing for 40 minutes. ” So what would I do? “He remembered. “And I began to invent, creating to entertain the production.”
After almost two decades, Villyazon makes its Capital Opera Bellinini’s debut directed in La Sonnambula, which opened on Monday evening with the outstanding composition of Nadine Sierra, Xabier and Alexander Vinogradov.
“He is very sensitive to the singers,” Sierra said. “Maybe some directors, because they are not singers or they were never singers, it is difficult for them to have a certain psychological struggle with which some singers, we are dealing on stage. We want to make our characters as believable as human possible, thanks to the actions that we show, but sometimes it is difficult to do, because you also need to sing high notes. ”
Villazón grew up in Mexico City, in 1999 won the competition at Placido Domingo and made his debut in the same year in Manon Massenet in Genoa, Italy. He made his debut in Met in La Traviata in Verdi in 2003 and received broad news when Alfredo sang with Violetta Netrebko in strict production of Willy Deer at the 2005 Salzburg festival.
Vocal problems that arose in 2007, which led to the abolition of its schedule, and it Surgery in 2009 to remove a cyst from its vocal ligamentsHe developed an alarm in 2015, and in 2018 he had another operation to confuse acid reflux.
“Two things coincided when I stopped singing during the year in 2009 – and I wrote my first novel and prepared my production, but both did not happen because I was resting,” he said. “I would finish my romance? I don't know. But for sure the direction for sure, this would happen. ”
When Willonon conceived his “Werther”, he shared her with AleN Lanceron, then the head of the record label Tenor, Virgin Classics. Richard Jones, director Willizon, helped him find the theater. After refusing Berlin, Willizon defeated Serge Dorni, the then general director in Lyon, and now the head of the Bavarian state of the opera.
Werther Villazón made his debut in 2011, and the next year he shot L'Elisir D'More in Baden-Baden, Germany, and also sang Nemorino.
He continued the director of the Ammerka, the “Doniso” of the Pasquis and “and” and “and“ Jaanxi ”and Yaubarber” and “Igature” and “Girl” Devinini.
Its Sonnambula is unfolding in the Ice Village of the Alps in the same set before projections and was first seen in the Parisian theaters of the Elizai in 2021, and then in Nice in 2022 and in Dresden, Germany, in 2023. He was supposed to go to the meter in 2023-24, but was sent due to the fact that the budget.
“In the rehearsals of the production, he was always on stage with them,” said General Director Peter Gelb. “Usually the directors are in a room with singers, but they spend a lot of time watching a remote place. He was more in trenches with singers than most directors. “
Villazón rejects the happy end of Donizetti and Librettist Feliche Romani. Instead of Amina wakes up from a lunatic stomach in ecstasy, when she finds out that Elvino would marry her, she will return his ring to him and run away into an independent future. He set up a direction for New York, cutting off the dancing perfumes, Aminu hallucinators from three to one, adding a globe, a telescope and a newspaper as gifts from Count Rodolfo to show the worldly curiosity that she is looking for.
“In essence, the concept that I thought about it, the concept of a closed society, the patriarchal, is probably very religious, where there is a strange woman adopted by the widow,” said Villazon. “She is obliged to follow the rules and adapt to how the community behaves for the good of the community, but she still feels this call of wildlife.”
Sierra and Anduaga sang these roles in the production of Barbara -Golutcha, who opened in Madrid in December 2022 and went to Barcelona in April last year, and then arrived in New York to work with Villoson,
“He really understands our situation,” said Anduga. “He does not want to do something strange or strange with the body, because he knows that all movements are important, but singing is the most important thing.”
Vilyazon learned from his experience with a chain of the best directors, including deer, Jones, Robert Karsen, Klaus Gut, Christophe Loy and Bart Cher.
“Richard Jones told me:“ You ask for something three times, ”recalls Villason. “If the contractor does not do this, he or he cannot do it or is not able to do it. In any case, you will not get what you ask, so move on and think about something else. ”
