La Cieca knows the cher public will be intrigued to hear that tomorrow night (Monday, November 16), NYC’s downtown classical music venue Le Poisson Rouge will offer a screening of Cecilia Bartoli in a live concert, filmed September 10, 2009.

Meanwhile, in honor of this cinematic event, your doyenne is launching a parterre competition for you. Details of both are after the jump.

According to the Poisson Rouge website,

This once-in-a-lifetime concert celebrates the launch of her newest album, Sacrificium. Filmed in the private theater of the Royal Palace in Caserta, Italy just outside of Naples, the film features Bartoli performing a number of arias from the album with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini.

The Poisson Rouge event will also include the introduction of the “Castratini” cocktail, door prizes and “much more.”

And what of the competition, you ask? Well, La Cieca was just thinking that La Bartoli’s recording career began in 1989 with the release of her Rossini Arias disc, making her one of the first classical artists whose career has transpired entirely in the CD era. We’ve seen many changes in classical music recording over these past two decades, and what La Cieca would like for you to do, cher public, is to present your ideas (in the comments section below) on what classical music recording will be like another two decades hence, in the year 2029.

Your doyenne is looking for clear reasoning and entertaining, vibrant writing (as if she needs to tell you), and the commenter she judges best presents his or her ideas will win an autographed copy of Bartoli’s Sacrificium, provided by First Chair Promotion.

Deadline for eligible comments is midnight, Tuesday, November 17.