Villazón celebrates his birthday with a benefit concert
Salzburg / Berlin (MH) – The Mexican-French opera singer Rolando Villazón is celebrating his 50th birthday with a benefit concert for the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation. With this, the artistic director of the foundation and director of the Mozart Week is supporting the facility that may die from the corona pandemic, as they announced on Friday.
Villazón invites famous companions to the concert on February 21, 2022, the eve of his milestone birthday, including Daniel Barenboim, Plácido Domingo, Regula Mühlemann, Magdalena Kožená, Michael Volle, Fatma Said and others. The Camerata Salzburg plays under the direction of the Lithuanian conductor Giedrė Šlekytė. The program includes works by Mozart, “popular and popular” from opera, operetta and zarzuela, as well as popular songs from Europe and Mexico.
The Mozarteum Foundation looks after the legacy of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). In the areas of concerts, museums and science, it combines the preservation of tradition and contemporary culture. Since 1956, around Mozart’s birthday in January, the foundation has organized the Mozart Week, a festival with the best orchestras, ensembles and soloists in the field of Mozart interpretation. At the beginning of 2020, over 30,000 guests came to the 59 events of the last regular edition before the start of the corona pandemic.
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