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Cecilia Bartoli

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Bartoli after a concert performance of La Cenerentola at the Salle Pleyel, 2008

Cecilia Bartoli OMRI ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; 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 periods. She has also sung soprano and alto repertory.

Bartoli is considered a singer with an unusual timbre. According to Nicholas Wroe in 2001, her voice was known for its "fully developed sumptuousness of the lower register, the vibrancy of the middle range...the top was limpid and powerful", and she was one of the most popular opera singers of recent years.<ref name="Wroe, The Guardian">Template:Cite news</ref>

Early lifeEdit

Bartoli was born in Rome. Her parents, Silvana Bazzoni and Pietro Angelo Bartoli, were professional singers and gave her her first music lessons. She first performed publicly at age nine as the shepherd boy in Tosca.<ref>Her mother's song got some peasant power Template:In lang</ref><ref name="Wroe, The Guardian" /> Bartoli later studied at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome.<ref name="Grove">Blyth, Grove Music Online</ref> At the age of 19, she made her singing debut on the Italian television show Fantastico. She did not win the competition but was asked to sing with Paris Opera for an homage concert for Maria Callas.Template:Cn

Performing careerEdit

Bartoli made her professional opera debut in 1987 at the Arena di Verona. The following year she undertook the role of Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville at the Cologne Opera, the Schwetzingen Festival and the Zurich Opera earning rave reviews.<ref name="Grove" /> Working 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 career developed internationally.<ref name="Grove" />

In 1990, she made her debut at the Opéra Bastille as Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and her debut at the Hamburg State Opera as Idamantes in Mozart's Idomeneo, followed by her La Scala debut as Isolier in Le comte Ory in 1991, a performance that solidified her reputation as one of the world's leading Rossini singers.<ref name="Grove" />

In 1996, Bartoli made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Despina in Così fan tutte and returned in 1997 to sing the title role of La Cenerentola and in 1998 to sing the role of Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. In 2000, she sang in another Mozart soprano role, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2001, she made a long-awaited Royal Opera House debut, taking the roles of Euridice and the Genio in the London stage premiere of Haydn's L'anima del filosofo.<ref name="Grove" />

She is foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Work in Baroque musicEdit

Template:External media In addition to Mozart and Rossini, Bartoli has spent much of her career performing and recording Baroque and early Classical era music by such composers as Gluck, Vivaldi, Haydn and Salieri. In early 2005, she sang Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare. She often performs with the Baroque ensemble Il Giardino Armonico.Template:Efn

In 2012, Bartoli produced a project entitled Mission, which premiered the works of Agostino Steffani, a lesser-known Baroque composer. Bartoli produced the music of the composer in CD form as well as an extended music video that portrays her as the priest-composer Agostino in the palace of Versallies. The video is known for its historic and visual accuracy of the Baroque period. Cecilia Bartoli's performance and production of Mission reflect the music and aesthetic of Steffani's time period through the setting, wardrobe, and cinematography."<ref>Caverly, C. "Bartoli's Mission: A Modern Woman and Baroque Music." MHS 123 Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century, 28 November 2017</ref>

Work in bel cantoEdit

In 2007/08, Bartoli devoted her time to studying and recording the early 19th-century repertoire – the era of Italian Romanticism and bel canto – and especially the legendary singer Maria Malibran, the 200th anniversary of whose birth was celebrated in March 2008. The album Maria was released in September 2007. In May 2008, Bartoli sang the title role written for Malibran in a revival of Fromental Halévy's 1828 opera Clari at the Zurich Opera.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In June 2010, she sang the title role of Bellini's Norma for the first time with conductor Thomas Hengelbrock in a concert at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In March 2011, Bartoli toured five Australian cities with two programs drawn from Sacrificium and Maria.<ref>"Flying visit" by Hugh Canning, The Australian (12 February 2011)</ref>

Administration careerEdit

Salzburg Whitsun FestivalEdit

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Bartoli as Cleopatra at the Salzburg Festival, 2012

In 2012, Bartoli became the artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, an extension of the traditional Salzburg Festival, which produces performances during Whitsun (Pentecost) weekend. Forgoing the academic programming of her predecessors, she reformulated the festival's programming—returning to "the old recipe of organizing beautiful programs and inviting great artists"—resulting in record ticket sales and placing the festival on the international opera calendar. In 2012, she sang Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare, in 2013 the title role in Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, and in 2014 Rossini's La Cenerentola.<ref name="NYT20140528">Template:Cite news</ref>

Opéra de Monte-CarloEdit

In December 2019, it was announced that Bartoli would succeed Jean-Louis Grinda as the director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, effective on 1 January 2023.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She became the first woman to hold the position.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Bartoli lives with her husband, the Swiss bass-baritone Oliver Widmer, in Zollikon on the north shore of Lake Zurich, Switzerland, and in Rome part of the year. The couple married in 2011 after twelve years together.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Bartoli lived in Monaco in the early 2010s.<ref>Alan Jackson. "Cold Call Alan Jackson calls Cecilia Bartoli.", The Times, London, 10 May 2003</ref>

Awards and honoursEdit

Bartoli was appointed Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1995), and Commander of Monaco's Order of Cultural Merit (November 1999).<ref>Sovereign Ordonnance n° 14.274 of 18 November 1999 : promotions or nominations</ref>

In 2003, she received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music at the Classic Brit Awards.

In 2010, she was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music from University College Dublin.<ref>[1], "World-leading Mezzo-Soprano, Cecilia Bartoli honoured by UCD" Retrieved 11 October 2020</ref>

In 2011, she won a fifth Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance for Sacrificium.<ref>[2], grammy.com</ref> In 2012, she was voted into the magazine's Gramophone's Hall of Fame.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She is the 2012 recipient of the Herbert von Karajan Music Prize.

DiscographyEdit

OperaEdit

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Recitals with orchestraEdit

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  • Rossini Arias (1989)
  • Mozart Arias (1991)
  • Rossini Heroines (1992)
  • Mozart Portraits (1994)
  • Mozart Arias (1996)
  • The Vivaldi Album (1999)
  • Cecilia and Bryn (1999)
  • Gluck Italian Arias (2001)
  • The Salieri Album (2003)
  • Opera Proibita (2005)
  • Viva Vivaldi! Arias & Concertos (Arthaus, 2005, DVD)
  • Maria (A Tribute to Maria Malibran) (2007)
  • Sacrificium (Arias written for castrati) (2009)
  • Mission (Arias and duets of Agostino Steffani) (2012)
  • St. Petersburg (2013)
  • Antonio Vivaldi (2018)
  • Farinelli (2019)
  • Queen of Baroque (2020)
  • Unreleased (2021)

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Recitals with pianoEdit

  • 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 in Italy (1998)

Recitals with celloEdit

SacredEdit

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

CantatasEdit

  • Rossini Cantatas Volume 2

CompilationsEdit

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

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