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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In the wake of the cancellation of the Metropolitan’s spring season, it has become increasingly apparent that live opera in the United States will continue to be on hold at least until summer 2021. As ...

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, ...

Bartoli's special mobile museum is dedicated to the art of 19th-century diva Maria Malibran. Two hundred years ago, before the Internet, TV or radio could help spread information, an international ...

Michael Jackson, the performer, returns to the spotlight with the documentary "This Is It" in movie theaters now. At the same time, mezzo soprano Cecilia Bartoli draws the parallels between Jackson ...

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 ...

The sound of Cecilia Bartoli executing an operatic cadenza at breakneck speed, or yet another slowed down to a kind of perfume hanging in midair, the tiniest hemi demisemiquaver precisely in place and ...

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 ...