The Sunday Times did not particularly like the recent Rolando Villazon concert in London; the British paper thinks the Mexican tenor's voice is, well, gone:
All took him uncomfortably low — to the point of inaudibility from Row K of the stalls — and, even though this music never takes a tenor to the “money notes” that make big careers, the top of Villazon’s voice now sounds detached from its centre, nasal and pinched. He looked uncomfortable, and compensated with unnerving gestural quirks...
But this isn’t comedy. It’s a tragedy playing out before our ears and eyes. Clearly, the problems his recent operation was supposed to resolve remain. The technical issues are legion: the shortness of his range, the disparity of colour between his registers and the sagging pitch...
The review actually gets worse -- it's an epic takedown. If people still cared about critics, Villazon's career -- well, his career as an unamplified singer -- would be in trouble.
