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 ...

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 times ...

SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — There was a time a generation ago when Cecilia Bartoli’s many U.S. fans could count on seeing her regularly in opera or in concert. The Italian mezzo-soprano noted for her ...

April 11 -- One of the few mezzo-soprano superstars to emerge since the early 19th century, Cecilia Bartoli and her angelic voice have re-ignited interest in classical music. Born in Rome in 1966, ...

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, ...

A star mezzo-soprano, Bartoli also runs a festival and an opera house at an age when others start to retire. And she’s not slowing down. By Joshua Barone “Our present reality seems to be completely ...

SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — There was a time a generation ago when Cecilia Bartoli's many U.S. fans could count on seeing her regularly in opera or in concert. The Italian mezzo-soprano noted for her ...

Cecilia Bartoli OMRI (born 4 June 1966) is an Italian mezzo-soprano widely known in the music of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini and Vivaldi and for lesser-known music of the Baroque and Classical ...

This photo provided by Salzburg Festival shows Cecilia Bartoli from the 2019 Salzburg Festival's production of the opera "Alcina" in Salzburg, Austria. The many fans of Bartoli have been waiting more ...