Monsters and Critics reveals: “Although acclaimed mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli has achieved almost everything there is to achieve in the world of classical music, she says she is still anxious ahead of every performance. In an interview with the German Press Agency dpa this week, the 44-year-old Italian opera star said a certain dose of stage…
By La Cieca
on September 21, 2010 at 3:19 PM
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An unlikely but adept English-language vocal stylist, Cecilia Bartoli, led the cast of a revival of the 2007 Zurich staging of Handel’s Semele, transferred to the Theater an der Wien for a short run. Director Robert Carsen takes an occasional liberty: Juno and Jupiter emerge as British royals, for instance, she a wellie-wearer and devotee…
By itrinkkeinwein
on September 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM
La Cieca hears that the planned Decca recording of Giulio Cesare, to be based upon live concert performances this week in Paris, has been canceled.
By La Cieca
on February 12, 2010 at 9:43 AM
“Michael Jackson was the true postmodern castrato,” says Cecilia Bartoli. [El País]
By La Cieca
on December 10, 2009 at 10:33 AM
