“Rolando Villazón makes an exciting role debut as the lovable lout Papageno.”
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“Die Zauberflöte is an opera!” “No, it’s the first musical comedy!”
“Paul Appleby will sing the role of Don Ottavio in this season’s September and October performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, replacing Rolando Villazón, who has withdrawn due to illness.”
When Norman Lebrecht is declaring on an almost daily basis that classical music is dead, it’s perhaps heartening that four of today’s prominent tenors have recently released what might be called fluff/vanity albums.
