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A Song In My Heart (Album) by Cecilia Bartoli

Artist Biography For Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli Italian Pronunciation Tʃeˈtʃiːlja ˈbartoli Born June 4 1966 In Rome Is An Italian Mezzo-Soprano Opera Singer And Recitalist. She Is Best-Known For Her Interpretation Of The Music Of Mozart And Rossini As Well As For Her Performances Of Lesser-Known Baroque And Classical Music. She Is Known For Having The Versatility To Play Both Soprano And Mezzo Roles And Is Sometimes Considered A Soprano With A Low Tessitura. Bartoli's Coloratura Skill Has Earned Her The Title The Queen Of Agility. Bartoli Is Considered A Coloratura Mezzo-Soprano With An Unusual Timbre. She Is One Of The Most Popular And One Of The Top-Selling Opera Singers Of Recent Years. Bartoli Is Much Liked By The Concert-Going Public For Her Lively Vivacious On-Stage Persona While Her Lyric Voice And Investigations Of Baroque Music Have Given Her Considerable Recognition Even Among The Non-Opera-Going Public. Early Career Cecilia Bartoli's Parents Silvana Bazzoni And Pietro Angelo Bartoli Were Both Professional Singers And Gave Her Her First Music Lessons. Her First Public Performance Was At Age Eight As The Shepherd Boy In Tosca. Bartoli Later Studied At The Conservatorio Di Santa Cecilia In Rome. In Contrast To Most Opera Singers Bartoli Came To Prominence In Her Early Twenties Unusual In A Profession Where Vocal Maturity Is Typically Not Achieved Until The Thirties. She Made Her Professional Opera Début In 1987 At The Arena Di Verona. The Following Year She Undertook The Role Of Rosina In Rossini's The Barber Of Seville At The Cologne Opera The Schwetzingen Festival And The Zurich Opera Earning Rave Reviews. She Was Soon Invited By Herbert Von Karajan To Sing At The Salzburg Festival And She Worked With Von Karajan On Bach's Mass In B Minor. At This Time She Also Came To Daniel Barenboim's Attention When He Saw Her Performing On A French Television Tribute To Maria Callas. Working With The Conductors Daniel Barenboim And Nikolaus Harnoncourt Bartoli Focused On Mozart Roles Such As Zerlina In Don Giovanni And Dorabella In Così Fan Tutte And From Then On Her Career Has Developed Internationally. In 1990 She Made Her Début At The Opéra Bastille As Cherubino In Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro And Her Debut At The Hamburg State Opera As Idamantes In Mozart's Idomeneo. This Was Followed By Her La Scala Début As Isolier In Le Comte Ory In 1991 A Performance Which Solidified Her Reputation As One Of The World's Leading Rossini Singers. Broad Success In 1996 She Made Her Debut At The Metropolitan Opera As Despina In Così Fan Tutte And Returned The Following Year To Sing The Title Role Of La Cenerentola. On This Occasion There Was Much Speculation That She Had Been Secretly Miked To Boost Her Volume As The Met Is One Of The Largest Opera Houses In The World But Such Rumours Were Steadfastly Denied By The Met Management. As A Result Of Her Acclaimed Performance The Role Of Angelina Has Become Somewhat Associated With Her Name. In 2000 She Triumphed In Another Mozart Soprano Role Donna Elvira In Don Giovanni At The Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2001 She Made A Long-Awaited Royal Opera House Début Taking The Roles Of Euridice And The Genio In The London Stage Première Of Haydn's L'anima Del Filosofo. Work In Baroque Music In Addition To Mozart And Rossini Bartoli Has Spent Much Of Her Time Performing And Recording Baroque And Early Classical Era Music Of Such Composers As Gluck Vivaldi Haydn And Salieri. In Early 2005 She Sang Cleopatra In Handel's Giulio Cesare A Role Written For A Soprano But Which Is In Mezzo-Soprano Range. As Her Voice Has Matured It Has Gained The Fullness And "largeness" It Was Earlier Criticized For Lacking. She Often Performs With The Baroque Ensemble Il Giardino Armonico. Work In Bel Canto In 2007/08 Bartoli Devoted Her Time To Studying And Recording The Early 19th Century Repertoire – The Era Of Italian Romanticism And Bel Canto – And Especially The Legendary Singer Maria Malibran The 200th Anniversary Of Whose Birth Was Celebrated In March 2008. The Album Maria Was Released In September 2007 And Was Number One In The Classical Billboard Charts In The U.S As Well As Achieving Gold Status In Belgium And The Netherlands. In May 2008 Bartoli Played The Title Role Written For Malibran In A Revival Of Fromental Halévy's 1828 Opera Clari At The Zurich Opera. In June 2010 She Sang The Title Role Of Bellini's Norma For The First Time With Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock In A Concert In The Konzerthaus Dortmund. In March 2011 Bartoli Toured Five Australian Cities With Two Programs Drawn From Sacrificium And Maria. Awards And Position Today Generally Considered One Of The Best Mezzo-Sopranos Of The Present Day Cecilia Bartoli Was Honored As A Chevalier Of The Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres In 1995 And Received The Léonie Sonning Music Prize In 2010. She Becomes Artistic Director Of The Salzburg Whitsun Festival Succeeding Riccardo Muti In 2012. Cecilia Bartoli Is Married To The Swiss Bass-Baritone Oliver Widmer. In 2011 She Won The Grammy Award For Best Classical Vocal Performance For Sacrificium. Discography - Opera Rossini La Scala Di Seta 1988 Rossini Il Barbiere Di Siviglia 1989 Mozart Lucio Silla 1991 Rossini La Cenerentola 1993 Puccini Manon Lescaut 1993 Mozart Le Nozze Di Figaro 1994 Mozart La Clemenza Di Tito 1995 Haydn Orfeo Ed Euridice 1997 Rossini Il Turco In Italia 1998 Mozart Mitridate 1999 Haydn Armida 2000 Handel Rinaldo 2000 Mozart Don Giovanni 2001 Bellini La Sonnambula 2008 Halevy Clari 2008 Recitals With Orchestra Rossini Arias 1989 Mozart Arias 1991 Rossini Heroines 1992 Mozart Portraits 1994 The Vivaldi Album 1999 Cecilia And Bryn 1999 Gluck Italian Arias 2001 The Salieri Album 2003 Opera Proibita 2005 Maria A Tribute To Maria Malibran 2007 Sacrificium Arias Written For Castrati 2009 Recitals With Piano Rossini Recital 1990 If You Love Me – "Se Tu M'ami" Eighteenth-Century Italian Songs 1992 Arie Antiche 1992 Italian Songs 1993 Chant D'Amour 1996 An Italian Songbook 1997 Live In Italy 1998 Sacred Mozart Requiem 1992 Scarlatti Salve Regina
Pergolesi Stabat Mater Salve Regina 2000 Cantatas Rossini Cantatas Volume 2 Collections Cecilia Bartoli Rossini Heroines 1992 A Portrait 1995 The Art Of Cecilia Bartoli 2002 Sospiri 2010

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