Every year in Salzburg, Cecilia Bartoli spearheads a project, i.e., an opera. She, of course, is the iconic Italian mezzo-soprano born in 1966. The opera this year is Alcina, by Handel. The two ...

'With Bartoli it’s not vulgar to describe the impact she makes in what she wears, it’s obligatory' The picture above gives an idea of the extravagantly opulent figure she likes to cut on stage - the ...

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Opera Proibita (Forbidden Opera) is no Adam and Eve story. But it is, thanks to Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, an introduction to some of the extraordinary music written in Rome at the ...

Happy crowds, standing ovations, spontaneous cheering, a pervading atmosphere of festivity -- all these materialized again Monday night in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion when star singer Cecilia ...

Cecilia Bartoli, “A Portrait,” arias and art songs by Mozart, Rossini, Parisotti, Caccini and others (London 448 300-2); Jennifer Larmore, “Where Shall I Fly,” arias by Handel and Mozart, performed ...

Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli has given audiences plenty of memorable evenings in the nearly 15 years since Cal Performances presented her local debut. But Thursday's ravishing recital in Berkeley's ...

'With Bartoli it’s not vulgar to describe the impact she makes in what she wears, it’s obligatory' The picture above gives an idea of the extravagantly opulent figure she likes to cut on stage - the ...

SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — Cecilia Bartoli has a favorite role she wished she could sing. “There is one character which I was always in love with since I started my Mozart career, and it’s Don Giovanni, ...