Superdiva Cecilia Bartoli, known for her vocal feats and devotion to vocal drama, dares to perform obscure and difficult arias sung by some of the most famous castrati in the 18th century.

“Sacrificium” is hardly likely to revive the practice of castration or even reach “Thriller”-like global ubiquity, but Cecilia Bartoli, an Italian mezzo-soprano with a large following (not ...

Songs by Bizet, Delibes, Viardot, Berlioz and Ravel; Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano; Myung-Whun Chung, piano (London). Known for her Rossini and Mozart opera roles, the vocal phenomenon known as ...

Cecilia Bartoli isn't your average opera star. She doesn't sing many of the popular 19th century operas. Instead, she prefers to explore the dusty, little-known corners of the 18th century.

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is little Cecilia Bartoli has not achieved during her 35-year career. The mezzo soprano has founded ...

Alexander Pereira: "I am tremendously pleased that Cecilia Bartoli's long association with Salzburg, which has proved so inspirational in the past, can now be placed on a new footing. "The ...

This image provided by the Salzburg Festival shows mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli as Orfeo in a rehearsal of Christof Loy's production of Gluck's "Orfeo ed Eurydice" at the Salzburg Festival.

Opera luminary and media darling Cecilia Bartoli, who had never before sung any closer to Los Angeles than Pasadena (twice, at the lamented Ambassador Auditorium) brought down the house so many ...