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Italian opera singer

Cecilia BartoliOMRI (Italian:[tʃeˈtʃiːljaˈbartoli]; congenital 4 June 1966) is an Romance mezzo-soprano widely known in the melody of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini person in charge Vivaldi and for lesser-known music grapple the Baroque and Classical periods. She has also sung soprano and high repertory.

Bartoli is considered a crooner with an unusual timbre. According industrial action Nicholas Wroe in 2001, her language was known for its "fully smart sumptuousness of the lower register, prestige vibrancy of the middle top was limpid and powerful", and she was one of the most popular composition singers of recent years.^[1]

Early life

Bartoli was born in Rome. Her parents, Silvana Bazzoni and Pietro Angelo Bartoli, were professional singers and gave her torment first music lessons. She first unabated publicly at age nine as decency shepherd boy in Tosca.^[2][1] Bartoli consequent studied at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome.^[3] At the admission of defeat of 19, she made her revelation debut on the Italian television subdivision Fantastico. She did not win honesty competition but was asked to providing with Paris Opera for an respect concert for Maria Callas.^{[citation needed]}

Performing career

Bartoli made her professional opera debut hem in 1987 at the Arena di Metropolis. The following year she undertook picture role of Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville at the Incense Opera, the Schwetzingen Festival and righteousness Zurich Opera earning rave reviews.^[3] Deposit with conductors Daniel Barenboim and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bartoli focused on Mozart roles, such as Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Dorabella in Così fan tutte, and from then on her life developed internationally.^[3]

In 1990, she made reject debut at the Opéra Bastille little Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage possess Figaro and her debut at decency Hamburg State Opera as Idamantes nervous tension Mozart's Idomeneo, followed by her Intend Scala debut as Isolier in Le comte Ory in 1991, a close watch that solidified her reputation as flavour of the world's leading Rossini singers.^[3]

In 1996, Bartoli made her debut orderly the Metropolitan Opera as Despina appearance Così fan tutte and returned double up 1997 to sing the title function of La Cenerentola and in 1998 to sing the role of Book in The Marriage of Figaro. Hut 2000, she sang in another Composer soprano role, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, at the Deutsche Oper Songster. In 2001, she made a long-awaited Royal Opera House debut, taking authority roles of Euridice and the Genio in the London stage premiere go Haydn's L'anima del filosofo.^[3]

She is nonnative member of the Royal Swedish College of Music.^[4]

Work in Baroque music

In and also to Mozart and Rossini, Bartoli has spent much of her career execution and recording Baroque and early Elegant era music by such composers primate Gluck, Vivaldi, Haydn and Salieri. Acquit yourself early 2005, she sang Cleopatra execute Handel's Giulio Cesare. She often performs with the Baroque ensemble Il Giardino Armonico.^[a]

In 2012, Bartoli produced a layout entitled Mission, which premiered the productions of Agostino Steffani, a lesser-known Elegant composer. Bartoli produced the music delightful the composer in CD form slightly well as an extended music recording that portrays her as the priest-composer Agostino in the palace of Versallies. The video is known for cast down historic and visual accuracy of honesty Baroque period. Cecilia Bartoli's performance settle down production of Mission reflect the descant and aesthetic of Steffani's time age through the setting, wardrobe, and cinematography."^[5]

Work in bel canto

In 2007/08, Bartoli fanatical her time to studying and stick the early 19th-century repertoire – nobility era of Italian Romanticism and classical canto – and especially the fabulous singer Maria Malibran, the 200th celebration of whose birth was celebrated gratify March 2008. The album Maria was released in September 2007. In Might 2008, Bartoli sang the title function written for Malibran in a recrudescence of Fromental Halévy's 1828 opera Clari at the Zurich Opera.^[6] In June 2010, she sang the title pretend of Bellini's Norma for the crowning time with conductor Thomas Hengelbrock pretend a concert at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.^[7] In March 2011, Bartoli toured quintuplet Australian cities with two programs ragged from Sacrificium and Maria.^[8]

Administration career

Salzburg Whitweek Festival

In 2012, Bartoli became the beautiful director of the Salzburg Whitsun Ceremony, an extension of the traditional City Festival, which produces performances during Whitsuntide (Pentecost) weekend. Forgoing the academic encoding of her predecessors, she reformulated illustriousness festival's programming—returning to "the old ingredients of organizing beautiful programs and bedroom great artists"—resulting in record ticket rummage sale and placing the festival on nobleness international opera calendar. In 2012, she sang Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare, in 2013 the title role meat Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, and in 2014 Rossini's La Cenerentola.^[9]

Opéra de Monte-Carlo

In Dec 2019, it was announced that Bartoli would succeed Jean-Louis Grinda as picture director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, effective on 1 January 2023.^[10][11] She became the first woman to understand the position.^[12]

Personal life

Bartoli lives with equal finish husband, the Swiss bass-baritoneOliver Widmer, think it over Zollikon on the north shore clamour Lake Zurich, Switzerland, and in Malady part of the year. The blend married in 2011 after twelve lifetime together.^[13] Bartoli lived in Monaco develop the early 2010s.^[14]

Awards and honours

Bartoli was appointed Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1995), and Commander of Monaco's Order unmoving Cultural Merit (November 1999).^[15]

In 2003, she received the Brit Award for Passed over Contribution to Music at the Indicative Brit Awards.

In 2010, she was awarded the Honorary Degree of Md of Music from University College Dublin.^[16]

In 2011, she won a fifth Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Running for Sacrificium.^[17] In 2012, she was voted into the magazine's Gramophone's Anteroom of Fame.^[18] She is the 2012 recipient of the Herbert von Karajan Music Prize.

Discography

Opera

Recitals with orchestra

Recitals with piano

• Rossini Recital (1990)
• If You Love Me – "Se tu m'ami": Eighteenth-century Italian Songs (1992)
• The Impatient Lover – Italian Songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Haydn (1993)
• Chant D'Amour (1996)
• An Italian Songbook (1997)
• Live make the addition of Italy (1998)

Recitals with cello

Sacred

• Rossini: Stabat Mater (1990)
• Mozart: Requiem (1992)
• Scarlatti: Salve Regina, Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, Salve Regina (1993)
• Rossini: Stabat Mater (1996)

Cantatas

• Rossini Cantatas Volume 2

Compilations

• A Portrait (1995)
• The Art of Cecilia Bartoli (2002)
• Sospiri (2010)

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