Rolando Villazón Il mio tesoro Don Giovanni YouTube 

In that case, you need to look at more videos. I like Villazon, but this is pretty bad.

You are so right ! His version is like so much of his singing :: Very passionate and involved. ( Don Ottavio is a pretty "weak" character. The women in the opera are much stronger. ) Rolando Villazon gives this aria great masculinity ( that low-note was wonderful to hear ; not heard by other tenors ). He gave a great deal of himself to singing this music ( he is the only tenor, I have heard, who "fires-up" Baroque Tenor Music, as he does here with Don Ottavio ).

Absolutely agree on the "stylistic thing" (the generally-accepted truth that to sing Mozart you have to be gay or, at least, seem to be one, wich is just bullshit) but there is also the breathe control thing. And there Villazón can't do what most mozartian tenors do: he needs to take an extra breath at 1:45 that sort of ruins the global impression.

​@@robert111k In 50 years I have found only 5 tenors who can take that run in one breath: John McCormick, Luigi Alva, Stuart Burrows, Francisco Araiza, and a new Paraguayan named Diego Godoy. I've heard that Leopold Simeneau did it. So all the other tenors are not to be scorned, but surely Mozart wrote it for a tenor who could do it. After you hear Alva's beautiful voice in it--he did it more than once on stage--you miss it in all other renditions.

@@robert111k Villazón does EXACTLY what most tenors do. As Roger states below, only few have EVER done this is a single breath.

@@waltersoto4624, yeah. The good ones, at least for Don Ottavio rol.

@@waltersoto4624 DARE we ask “what is the significance of the long melsima that everyone is so hyped about singing in one breath to the aria as a whole?” In terms of elucidating the drama or the text, it adds NOTHING. It is a total piece of fluff embellishing a dominant seventh chord. It has no emotional or dramtic signficance. NONE. Why is it there? *Showmanship.* Like stage lighting and efx. That’s it. Mozart has composed much gorgeous melody in the aria’s two very distinct dramatic segments “Il mio tesoro…” and “Che sol di stragi…” But this melisma in particular is hardly characterized as gorgeous melody. So why get all excited about singing something so utterly trivial in one breath? Aa purely technical trick here, devoid of dramatic and artistic meaning.

Agree! Lovely voice, charming man! What's not to like?

Qué pereza dan los comentarios de este tipo. ¿Que tendrá que ver el culo con las témporas?

Thank you for making me discover him! Gösta Winbergh was also exceptional in the role of Don Ottavio.

Was it the 1911 version, that is on You Tube ? It makes all the others look small, even Villazon.

Luigi Alva did the run in one breath live on stage repeatedly.

I totally agree with you, McCormack's rendition of "Il mio tesoro" remains the greatest, followed, on my opinion, by Björling's and wunderlich's, although in German, but Wunderlich is exceptionally suited for Mozart.

@@marinellabakken7491 Don't forget Gigli!

Yes, and in the complete recording with Yannick Nezet-Seguin & the CEO, he plays the role very differently to the rather wimpish character usually encountered.

beh, nn è tenore mozartiano. Bravo, nn c è che dire però...

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It’s a lyric role and Villazon is not a dramatic

Dragan Vidic Yes I agree and I realized when I sent it, that I it wasn‘t what I meant to express. He is a lyric tenor, who could do some dramatic roles well for a time. Maybe the dramatic roles he sang taxed his voice a bit. I am still very impressed with his artistry and versatility.

Not many dramatic tenors could sing this role without having problems.

Phil Phillips He ruined his lyric voice by singing everything. Period.

Dragan Vidic Not before he made a lot of money.

I fully agree......its incredible that a recording McCormack made 100 years ago is still the standard for this aria!!........Bravo!

Yes!! Thank you.

Absolut richtig. Many singers, and some very good ones, are so intimidated by the phrase lengths and delicate but demanding ornamentation that they think they are reducing the risk of energy over-expatiation by retaining a mezzo forte rendering. Don Ottavia is not over bright and not very resolute but he is not a wimp. Read the libretto!

I concur. He portrays Ottavio as a decent man who is enraged, not as one who is weak and ineffectual.

@Heber Ferraz-Leite If you haven't already, watch "Kind Hearts and Coronets"; listen to the way Dennis Price murders this aria... beautifully murders this aria. 😊

This sounds like a love aria. I had no clue. The melody is so soft.

Don Giovanni or Don Ottavio? 'Il mio tesoro...' is Don Ottavio's love song, and I agree that Luigi Alva's interpetation of it is outstanding.

Terrie Tackett I agree with you, but can’t we just enjoy this wonderful singing?

All de defects of Domingo

He sang Papageno at the Met in New York during a recent season. Sad to say, his tenor range is pretty much shot.

Thank you for this ;-)

DON OCTAVIO Aan mijn geliefde, o haast je, om haar verdrietige hart te troosten. Zoet zijn de tranen die kastijden, maar treur niet degenen die scheiden. Vertel haar, om haar gelijk te zien krijgen, zal ik nooit ophouden met achtervolgen, mijn zwaard en geloof heb ik beloofd. Niets dat mijn vastberadenheid zal dwarsbomen

Yeah. That ruins the global impression of this, otherwise, quite good rendition.

Luciano is Luciano. Why should any other singer be Luciano?

Luciano never sang Don Ottavio. Unfortunately, Villazon’s opera voice is pretty much shot at this point. Sad, because I saw him in London in 2012, and he was outstanding.

+finn marius Couldn't agree more.

+finn marius - I don't agree. This is the Prague version of Octavio's aria. Morella in Vienna couldn't sing it so Mozart wrote 'Dalla Sua Pace" for him. I don't think Pavarotti ever sang it (I could be wrong). Villazon is simply great here. He has excellent fioratura and of course it's a full size voice. I like 'manly' Octavios like Villazon or Windberg. I knew Simoneu personally and I loved everything he sang but Villazon is a great Mozart tenor of a different type.

independant of the tessitura, you are right about the relaxation. Try Placido's version and you can listen how he never let the diaphragm go out of his technique, like Rolando does (to give it more "appeal" but it only makes him use the throat and thus, adding more pressure and work to your whole instrument) and he can even be seen singing it at a very young age without any damn trouble at all. This is a matter of diaphragm domination, rather than tessitura.

Alex Orozco When I was practicing for the Met auditions I sang Il Mio Tesoro in the practice rooms. My tenor buddy came by and complained. I'm a bass. I sang Alvise's big aria for my audition. My buddy complained that it sounded like someone was playing a 78 at 33. So I know the aria even though my part in the show is the Commendatore.

Wow, wish I could have that experience of auditioning at the met too. I think you went a bit too far, I mean, singing a lyric tenor aria, but on the other hand maybe practice would've made it sound better (not necessarily good enough thou). I mean, Giuseppe Giacomini sounding like a baritone at 66 years old but singing live Nessun Dorma better than many healthy young tenors pretty much states a difference on why diaphragm is key in healthy singing.

Yeah, they’re both awful. 😉

@@wotan10950 Actually, Villazón has a better voice than Florez, but I think he sounds a little throaty.

Ole Nielson No one will be like Wunderlich. He was born to sing Mozart. Fritz is my all time favorite tenor. I still like Villazon. He has so much feeling for the music.

Wunderlich took it much too slow.

let's ask Mozart how he wants it done, mr. f****ing expert.

I love Villazon's singing and don't understand why so many hate him. One comment called him a 'disgusting little sewer rat' which mystifies me. True, he emotes too theatrically, but people praised Callas for that. Netrebko gets the same treatment. Rolando is even good looking in a Gremlinesque way.

Absolutamente de acuerdo, todo forzado sin técnica alguna, el sonido está ahogado por la fuera que hace al cantar.

@@javieroybin4541 Tuviste la mala suerte de haber estudiado opera o algo relacionado,no puedes dejar de analizar las voces tecnicamente.

@@RosaSilva-bq5sp Todo se trasluce en el canto.

@@javieroybin4541 Me gusta su voz,transmite,tu eres lo que cantas,trasmites lo que eres y eso a 999 personas le gusta y en todas sus canciones de youtune a la gente le gusta enormemente.1🤷‍♂️