Rolando Villazon’s Return To Stage Draws Cheers

The star tenor, sidelined for a year due to health and vocal problems including a cyst on his vocal folds, made a one-time, quickly scheduled appearance in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Vienna State Opera on Monday night. He got 60 seconds of applause just for entering and enjoyed a 25-minute ovation after the final curtain. How did he sound?