Tenor Rolando Villazón offers his voice to Torreón

The target market covered up early on the Isauro Martínez Theater. With program in hand, the target market entered this venue inbuilt 1930 and started to fill the seats. It was once totally complete. The whole thing was once in a position to welcome the tenor Rolando Villazón (Mexico Town, 1972), who has returned to the rustic after 14 years of no longer surroundings foot on a Mexican degree. He selected Torreón to start his excursion, which was once his first time within the town, a debut in Los angeles Laguna in entrance of the frescoes and reliefs of the Spanish painter Salvador Tarazona.

The night featured an Opera Gala starring Villazón, accompanied via soprano Anabel de l. a. Mora and mezzo-soprano Itzeli del Rosario, in addition to the Camerata de Coahuila directed via maestro Ramón Colour. The development integrated arias via nice composers reminiscent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Charles Gounod, Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Jacques Offenbach, Gerónimo Giménez, Reveriano Soutullo, Juan Vert, Federico Moreno and Manuel Penella.

The 3rd name was once heard after 8:00 p.m. A degree adorned with sunflowers, as though it had been a portray via Vincent van Gogh, housed the orchestra’s musicians. Concertmaster Ismael Estevané joined this panorama of brass, strings, tune stands and ratings, adopted via maestro Colour. Then Mozart’s tune invaded the theatre with the overture to the opera The Marriage of Figaro (1786).

The following act was once the illusion of the nice visitor. Rolando Villazón was once won with applause, which resounded for greater than a minute. He replied with out pronouncing a phrase, however pronouncing the whole thing along with his gestures of gratitude and the method of his proper hand against his center. That was once the instant when his lips opened to let loose the aria ‘Voi che fausti’, from the opera The Shepherd King (1775).

Villazón sang this aria for the primary time on the Nationwide Conservatory of Track. Mozart is the composer she has carried out essentially the most in her occupation. Along with enlivening his ratings, she has learn his letters and biographers, visited the puts the place he walked or even wrote a unique impressed via him: Amadeus on a bicycle, which is why the start of the gala changed into totally Mozartian.

Anabel de l. a. Mora and Itzeli del Rosario took the degree to sing “Ah perdón il primo affetto” from Los angeles clemencia di Tito (1791), one of the most ultimate works that Mozart controlled to write down ahead of his loss of life. In addition they accompanied Villazón in an aria from Idomeneo (1781). Then, Verdi, Gounod and Rossini contributed to last the primary a part of the live performance.

Sooner than the intermission, Rolando Villazón took the microphone and spoke with the sincerity of his spirit: “I’m more than happy to be again in Mexico, after 14 years, and I’m more than happy to take action right here in Torreón, which is my debut, with nice emotion, with this glorious orchestra, with this glorious director and with my superb colleagues. I’m extremely joyful.”

After a wreck and true to his clown essence, Villazón juggled and spoke once more; he shared that the second one segment of the night would get started with the duet of Adina and Nemorino from the opera The Elixir of Love (1832), via Donizetti.

“Nemorino has simply been given wine and he thinks it is an elixir of affection, that Adina goes to fall in love with him when she beverages it. So he makes amusing of her, pronouncing ‘the next day to come you’ll be in love with me’. And he or she’s very inspired, as a result of ‘this fool who did not take note of me is now very certain of himself, what is going on?’ And that is the duet that is a bit of humorous.”

Villazón sought after to play Nemorino in his personal manner: “I sought after to play Nemorino from Laguna.” As an alternative of wine, his handheld a can of sunshine beer. For the instance he additionally wore the blouse of the Santos Laguna soccer group, and sang along Anabel de l. a. Mora wearing inexperienced and white.

The night persevered its sonorous adventure between arias from Offenbach’s Stories of Hoffmann, in addition to zarzuelas reminiscent of Los angeles boda de Luis Alonso and Los angeles tempranica, via Giménez; Los angeles del soto del Parral, via Soutullo and Vert; Luisa Fernanda, via Moreno Torroba and El gato montés, via Penella.

Alternatively, Villazón was once transparent that the live performance needed to transcend the programme, as though it had been a Debussy sea. He introduced Torreón no longer only one or two, however as much as six further items. One of the vital memorable moments came about in ‘Libiamo ne’lieti calici’, the well-known aria from Los angeles traviata, the Verdi opera, the place the target market started to observe the rhythm of the tune with their fingers.

Villazón lives in Paris, as a result of he all the time sought after to are living in a web page of Julio Cortázar. In Torreón he did what the Argentine author, in his guide Historia de cronopios y de famas (1962), signifies in his ‘Directions for making a song’: he listened to himself inside of to generate along with his voice a whole panorama out of doors.

After greater than two hours, the folk of Los angeles Laguna bid farewell to Rolando Villazón with a heat include of applause. The tenor will proceed his Mexican excursion in Guadalajara, the place he’ll carry out on September 21 on the Sala Plácido Domingo, and in Mexico Town, the place he’ll be offering a recital of voice and piano on September 24 on the Sala Nezahualcóyotl.

Rolando Villazón’s Opera Gala in Torreón was once an tournament to profit the brand new DIF Nursery Faculty. Its realization was once conceivable because of the give a boost to of the Municipality of Torreón, inside the framework of the 117th anniversary of the town, in addition to personal tasks reminiscent of SIMSA, Peñoles, Soriana, Lala, Jumex, Madero Equipos de Ordeño, Visa, Trasgo, Elisa Wagner, Grupo Árinder, TIM and our publishing space: El Siglo de Torreón.