Marc Minkowski and Rolando Villazón

July 2012 has seen the release of Don Giovanni, the first installment of a new Deutsche Grammophon cycle of Mozart's seven main operas in collaboration with Rolando Villazón, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Universal Music Arts & Entertainment, and Rolex; it has also coincided with Villazón's role debut as Ferrando in the buffa masterpiece Così fan tutte at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden: with this recital, the tenor continues to explore the Mozart repertoire, with, for instance, arias from Don Giovanni or Ezio.

A specialist of the 17th and 18th centuries, Marc Minkowski (founder of the Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble and music director of the Sinfonia Varsovia) opens this programme with Kurt Weill's Symphony No. 2 and closes it with Beethoven's Symphony No. 8.

Rolando Villazón appears courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon GmbH.
Marc Minkowski appears courtesy of Naïve.

This concert is also broadcast on www.euronews.com

© Picture: Felix Broede/DG