Smile, Gabriels Oboe, Tonight - Rolando Villazon & Hayley Westenra (Royal Variety Performance 2011)

Rolando Villazon and Hayley Westenra singing "A Celebration of the Movies" at the 2011 Royal Variety Performance, in the presence of HRH Princess Anne (The Princess Royal). Their three songs were: Smile - By Rolando, Gabriel's Oboe (Whispers In A Dream) - by Hayley; and Tonight (West Side Story) by Rolando and Hayley in duet. Hayley first appears 2minutes 25 seconds into the video.

The original performance was at The Lowry Theatre in Salford Greater Manchester on 5 December 2011, and it was first broadcast by ITV1 on 14 December 2011.

See our report and five videos of this at http://www.hayley-westenra-internatio...

To discuss this performance you can visit the HWI forum at http://hwi.proboards.com/index.cgi?bo...

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[itsjimupnorth]

Not a bad year for our Hayley, getting to sing with Andrea Bocelli, Mario Frangoulis, Joseph Calleja, and the great Rolando.

Now will somebody please introduce her to Alfie Boe.

[hwivid]

Hayley has sung with Alfie Boe, in 2006 at Canterbury Cathedral when he was her special guest.

[Shirley Rosio]

I love you Rolando Villazon!!!Viva México!!!!

[Rafael Vargas]

Rolando was my teacher!

[Juan Esquivel]

Rolando es simplemente el mejor cantante que ha tenido México, quieran o no reconocerlo algunos, es el mejor. Felicidades Rolando, en México habemos quienes te admiramos, te seguimos y reconocemos tu extraordinaria voz. Ojalá pronto te tengamos por acá¡¡

Abrazo

[Shirley Rosio]

omg!!!! i love you Villazon!!!

[Rebecca Haley]

But isn't Rolando Mexican? I thought he would be more popular there..

[TheSirenDiva]

yeahh!! I really understand you, he is my favorite tenor and the saddest thing is that here in Mexico nobody knows him :(

[msa1985]

whos the hot bitch rolando sings to in the beginning?

[Rebecca Haley]

I would love to have the chance, I don't know if I ever will. But that would be an incredible experince