loading ...

No results found

loading ...

No results found

  • International Agency Classical music and opera experts for over 20 years
  • OPERA GIFT Give concert and opera tickets in prestigious venues !
  • Customer help - Advice Service efficace et rapide, joignable par tel +33 1 53 59 39 29 ou Email
  • Performance cancelled Tickets are refunded or a voucher valid 18 months is issued
Planning de la tournée de l'artiste  Cecilia Bartoli
Soprano/Mezzo-soprano

Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli is one of the greatest singers of our time as well as a real phenomenon. Her voice is a rare combination of extended notes and high purity. Her singing and technique are exquisite and when listening to the diva, images of fireworks come to mind. It must be said that "The" Bartoli is an amazing artist, one that preferred to find a forgotten repertoire rather than sing the same heroines of the Rossini operas during her entire carreer.

 

A real bookworm, she participated in the excavaction of forgotten work like compositions byVivaldi or Steffani and with a success that continues unabated. With a preference for more intimate scenes, she gives quite a few performances at the opera but perfectly knows how to choose her work to perform at her best. Cecilia Bartoli is one of the most engaging personalities who always shows her generosity with an audience that has been loyal to her since the beginning. The most incredible perhaps, is that time has absolutely no control over her extraordinary voice. Each concert is a chance to applaud more power on stage and to continue to cherish the wonderful Cecilia Bartoli.

 

Find all Cecilia Bartoli's latest news on her Facebook page !

Read more Less detail See all the events

Biography

Cecilia Bartoli (Italian pronunciation: ; born June 4, 1966 in Rome) is an Italian mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best-known for her interpretation of the music of Mozart and Rossini, as well as for her performances of lesser-known Baroque and classical music.

She is known for having the versatility to play both soprano and mezzo roles, and is sometimes considered a soprano with a low tessitura. Bartoli's coloratura skill has earned her the title the Queen of Agility.

Bartoli is considered a coloratura mezzo-soprano with an unusual timbre. She is one of the most popular (and one of the top-selling) opera singers of recent years. Bartoli is much liked by the concert-going public for her lively, vivacious on-stage persona, while her lyric voice and investigations of Baroque music have given her considerable recognition even among the non-opera-going public.

Source : 

Early career:Cecilia Bartoli's parents, Silvana Bazzoni and Pietro Angelo Bartoli, were both professional singers and gave her her first music lessons. Her first public performance was at age eight as the shepherd boy in Tosca.

Bartoli later studied at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome.In contrast to most opera singers, Bartoli came to prominence in her early twenties, unusual in a profession where vocal maturity is typically not achieved until the thirties.

She made her professional opera début 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.

She was soon invited by Herbert von Karajan to sing at the Salzburg Festival, and she worked with von Karajan on Bach's Mass in B minor. At this time, she also came to Daniel Barenboim's attention when he saw her performing on a French television tribute to Maria Callas.

Working with the 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 has developed internationally.

In 1990 she made her début at the Opéra Bastille as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and her debut at the Hamburg State Opera as Idamantes in Mozart's Idomeneo. This was followed by her La Scala début as Isolier in Le comte Ory in 1991, a performance which solidified her reputation as one of the world's leading Rossini singers.

Broad success:In 1996, she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Despina in Così fan tutte and returned the following year to sing the title role of La Cenerentola. On this occasion, there was much speculation that she had been secretly miked to boost her volume (as the Met is one of the largest opera houses in the world), but such rumours were steadfastly denied by the Met management.

As a result of her acclaimed performance, the role of Angelina has become somewhat associated with her name.In 2000 she triumphed 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 début, taking the roles of Euridice and the Genio in the London stage première of Haydn's L'anima del filosofo.Work in Baroque music:In addition to Mozart and Rossini, Bartoli has spent much of her time performing and recording baroque and early classical era music of such composers as Gluck, Vivaldi, Haydn and Salieri.

In early 2005, she sang Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare, a role written for a soprano, but which is in mezzo-soprano range. As her voice has matured it has gained the fullness and "largeness" it was earlier criticized for lacking.

She often performs with the baroque Ensemble Il Giardino Armonico.Work in bel canto: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 and was number one in the Classical Billboard Charts in the U.S as well as achieving Gold status in Belgium and the Netherlands. In May 2008, Bartoli played the title role written for Malibran in a revival of Fromental Halévy's 1828 opera Clari at the Zurich Opera.

In June 2010 she sang the title role of Bellini's Norma for the first time with conductor Thomas Hengelbrock in a concert in the Konzerthaus Dortmund. In March 2011, Bartoli toured five Australian cities with two programs, drawn from Sacrificium and Maria.

Awards and position today:Generally considered one of the best mezzo-sopranos of the present day, Cecilia Bartoli was honored as a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1995 and received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize in 2010.

After a worldwide successful repertoire with titles such as "Sacrificium" (2009), "Mission" (201)2, "Norma" (2013) in collaboration with Giovanni Antonini and the Orchestra "La Scintilla", "La Scintilla",... Cecilia Bartoli is currently Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, a contract extended until 2026, where she will be able to draw on the experience of her outstanding artistic career. Since 2016, she has been working regularly with Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco. This orchestra was created on her initiative and has received the generous patronage of the princely family of Monaco. Cecilia Bartoli is director designate of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and takes up this position in January 2023, as the first woman in the history of the opera house.

Source : www.aaemusic.com

Filters
Filters

Choose your date

Type of work

Filter by Venue

Filter by Artist

Find the programme sorted by date and book your concert, opera and ballet tickets:

Cecilia Bartoli | 5 Performances

Filter by Filter by

opera
From €215

Giulio Cesare in Egitto - Händel

Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna - Austria
From 06/07/2024 to 09/07/2024

                                            Highlight Highlight
Buy Tickets
concert
From €168

Their Master's Voice

Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna - Austria
From 08/07/2024 to 10/07/2024

                                            Highlight Highlight
Buy Tickets

Choeur de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco

Conductor

Gianluca Capuano

See more See less
View as Grid List

The Guide
2017-2018

Pre-publication offer Order
  • International Agency Your ticket for an unforgettable evening around the world
  • Ticketing Agency Classical music and opera experts for over 20 years
  • +48.000 spectacles Operas, Concerts and ballets in prestigious Venues
  • Advice Music specialists can help you make the best choice, call us at +33 1 53 59 39 29