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Live performance at the Grand Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in 2009. When Donizetti s comedy, updated to the mid-20th century by the Uruguayan-born director Mario Gas, was mounted at Barcelona's magnificent Liceu opera house in 2005, Opera News wrote that: The absolute hit of the production was . . . Rolando Villazón, a commanding, vulnerable and hilarious Nemorino.