Rolando Villazón: "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore

From the live recording of a "L'Elisir d'Amore" performance (directed by Rolando Villazón) at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in 2012.

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Rolando Villazón as director and as Nemorino - these tidings alone were enough to unleash a worldwide "run" on tickets to the Baden-Baden 2012 Pentecost holiday opera. After his directorial debut in 2011 ("Werther", Lyon) the Mexican tenor now takes it a step further and not only stages Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore", but also directs himself in the role of Nemorino. The film tells the story of this "story within a story" and reveals the creative process of staging Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore" at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in April and May 2012.

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