Sometimes you have to wait a long time for success. In the case of the 18th-century Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, it took 200 years. The wait, however, was well worth it. His biggest hit, the ...

It’s been almost 20 years since mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli released her historic recording The Vivaldi Album – and now she’s back with another solo recording of the great Italian composer's music.

Like another famous Roman before her, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli came, saw and conquered in Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall on Wednesday night. For the cancellation-prone diva, the first part of that ...

Those who loved Cecilia Bartoli’s 1999 “The Vivaldi Album” should enjoy her new recording of eight Italian arias by Christoph Willibald Gluck. All but one of these arias are receiving their world ...

The small Roman mezzo-soprano of Cecilia Bartoli found itself in the vast space of the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Friday evening for a long-awaited, sold-out Washington debut. So tight were ...

Firstly, The Salieri Album is the finest recording of any music to come my way in 2003. That this it is not jazz is immaterial. Prima mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli began a recording crusade ...

Firstly, The Salieri Album is the finest recording of any music to come my way in 2003. That this it is not jazz is immaterial. Prima mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli began a recording crusade ...

Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” is one of the most popular pieces of music in the world. It’s heard everywhere--on radio, aboard airplanes, in supermarkets, as background for television ads. There are ...

Anyone with even a passing interest in Baroque music will be familiar with the notion that Vivaldi wrote the same formulaic concerto hundreds of times, will likely be sick to death of “The Four ...

Antonio Salieri may be the most maligned figure in the history of music -- a venturesome and prolific composer (he wrote 39 operas) who is now "remembered" mostly as the jealous wretch who conspired ...