[1][2] Villazón has published several books, including the novels Malabares and Paladas de sombra contra la oscuridad which have been translated into French and German.

The same year he sang for the first time in Italy as des Grieux in Manon at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.

[8] In August 2005, he sang a highly regarded Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata at the Salzburg Festival, conducted by Carlo Rizzi, directed by Willy Decker.

He starred alongside Netrebko and Domingo in globally televised concerts from Berlin's Waldbühne and Vienna's Schönbrunn Palace in 2006 and 2008.

[9][10] In May 2009, Rolando Villazón announced that he had to undergo surgery in order to remove a congenital cyst in one of his vocal cords.

Rolando Villazón continues to perform on the world's leading stages and has added numerous diverse roles to his repertoire in recent years.

[15] That year also sang his first highly acclaimed L'Orfeo,[16] a role he sings in new productions at Semperoper Dresden and Santa Fe Opera in 2023.

[19] In 2022, Rolando Villazón made his internationally acclaimed debut as Loge in Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold at Berlin State Opera in a new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Christian Thielemann.

[20] In 2018, Rolando Villazón was named artistic director of the Mozart Week festival in Salzburg, and in 2021 of the International Mozarteum Foundation which organises it.

[25] His discography includes leading roles in complete recordings of six operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.