Rolando Villazón directs opera at the world’s top houses while still singing

“I said, ‘oh, this last act is very difficult. He shot himself and keeps singing for 40 minutes.’ And so, what would I do?” he recalled. “And I started inventing, creating for fun a staging.” Nearly two decades later, Villazón is making his Metropolitan Opera directing debut in Bellini’s “La Sonnam...

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