In 2008, after Beijing Olympics she announced her retirement from the national team, along with teammate Marinella Falca.
Ottavio Rinuccini | Ottavio Farnese | Ottavio Vannini | Ottavio Piccolomini | Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma | Ottavio Cinquanta | Ottavio Barbieri | Ottavio |
Amongst his performances in the 2008/2009 season were role debuts as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at the Croatian National Theater, and as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Teatre de La Farándula in Sabadell.
In September 1953 he made his American debut at the San Francisco Opera in the title role of Werther, opposite Giulietta Simionato as Charlotte, and later that same year, in December, he debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, singing Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, other roles at the Met included; Tamino, Almaviva, Nemorino, Ernesto, Alfredo, des Grieux.
Her season 2011-2012 was highlighted by Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Staatsoper Berlin under the baton of Marc Minkowski, Alcina (Bradamante) at the Lausanne Opera under the baton of Ottavio Dantone and Rinaldo (title role) in Reggio Emilia and Ferrara.
At that theatre, he has since been seen in Gianni Schicchi (as Rinuccio, 1975), Don Pasquale (as Ernesto, directed by John Dexter, 1979), Fidelio (as Jaquino, with Jon Vickers as Florestan, 1980), Wozzeck (as Andres, opposite Anja Silja, 1980), Don Giovanni (as Don Ottavio, 1994), Die Fledermaus (as Alfred, 1995), etc.
Ottavio Cinquanta, the President of the International Skating Union
Pier Luigi and his son, Ottavio, declared they would have pay 9,000 golden ducati every year to the Holy See, and, in exchange, they gave back the Duchies of Camerino and Nepi.
In recent years, Villazon has undertaken a number of Mozart tenor roles both in concert and in operatic performances, notably Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni at Baden Baden Fest, the role of Alessandro in Mozart's 'Il re pastore' under William Christie at Zurich Opera House.
In 1991, he sang the role of Lucentio in Hermann Goetz's Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung at the Wexford Festival Opera, toured throughout Japan, and portrayed the role of Don Ottavio in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland.
Some character names, such as "Don Octave" and "Donna Ribalda" play on the Mozart opera, referring to Don Ottavio and Donna Elvira respectively, while the castanet-clicking "Carmen Ghia" plays on the title character of Bizet's opera (and puns on the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia).