The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Good to find Rolando Villazon looking and sounding so relaxed as the ardent and well-lubricated Hoffmann in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann after his near-disastrous innings as Don Carlo in the Royal Opera's synthetic Hytner production.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Rupert Christiansen on a superb return to form for young Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Good to find Rolando Villazon looking and sounding so relaxed as the ardent and well-lubricated Hoffmann in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann after his near-disastrous innings as Don Carlo in the Royal Opera's synthetic Hytner production.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
OPERA: LES CONTES D'HOFFMAN PATHOS: Ronaldo Villazon takes full advantage of the Opera's emotional temperature Friday November 28,2008 THERE is much to be said for innovation in opera. Inspired directors can take a cobwebbed work and by cleverly changing the location and era inject new life. A recent ENO production of Handel's Partenope is set in the Paris of the Twenties with stunningly stylish...
This is London (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
The dissolute poet Hoffmann (Rolando Villazon) offers to relate tales of his fabulously disastrous love life: with Olympia the mechanical doll, then Giulietta, a courtesan and finally with the angel-voiced Antonia, who dies singing. So although this is a strange, episodic work, its real appeal lies in Offenbach’s fertile melodies (notably the Barcarolle) and in the vocal possibilities...
