b. 1966 Italian mezzo-soprano Bartoli made her debut at Verona in 1987. Her most celebrated role is Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, which she has sung in Cologne, Catania, Schwetzingen, Zürich and Barcelona. Other parts include Cenerentola (Rossini), Cherubino and Dorabella (Mozart) and Haydn’s Eurydice. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1996 as Despina ...
b. 1966, Italian Achieving fame at an early age with her vocal agility and warm tone, this mezzo-soprano’s studies began in Rome at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia. Bartoli is best known as a Baroque, Rossini and Mozart specialist, having collaborated with many of music’s pre-eminent early music ensembles. She remains highly sought after for her compelling ...
Orchestra; James Levine, conductor; Decca 4402002; Soloists: Mirella Freni (Manon Lescaut), Luciano Pavarotti (Il Cavaliere des Grieux), Dwayne Croft (Lescaut), Giuseppe Taddei (Geronte di Ravoir), Ramón Vargas (Edmondo), Cecilia Bartoli (Un Musico) Personalities | Giacomo Puccini | Turn of the Century | Opera ...
Argante and Armida agree to convert to the Christian faith. Recommended Recording: Rinaldo, Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor; Decca 467 087–2OHO3; Soloists: L. Orgonasova (Armida), Cecilia Bartoli (Almirena), Bernarda Fink (Goffredo), David Daniels (Rinaldo), Gerald Finley (Argante) Personalities | George Frideric Handel | Late Baroque | Opera Performance | The First Performances of Rinaldo | Late Baroque ...
Vitellia and Gluck’s Alceste. At Glyndebourne she sang in Cavalli’s La Calisto, Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and Gluck’s Orfeo. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Cecilia Bartoli | Contemporary | Classical ...
to New York, where he died in 1945. Introduction | Modern Era | Opera Major Operas | Duke Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók | Modern Era Personalities | Cecilia Bartoli | Modern Era | Opera ...
reinterred, both singers proved that scholarship, interpretation and exceptional technique can rescue operas from obscurity. Similar work has been done by contemporary singers such as the mezzo-sopranos Cecilia Bartoli and Vesselina Kasarova (b. 1965), who have, in different ways, continued what Callas and Sutherland began. Opera | Contemporary | Classical Performance | Special Effects | Contemporary | ...
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