Nominations in top categories Dec 4, 2008
Dec. 3, 2008 09:16 PM Associated Press. Nominees announced Wednesday in top categories for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
As critics scorn a star is born Nov 12, 2008
A Leoncavallo CD with Placido Domingo ("kind of high-level elevator music") is coming soon, and a recording with Cecilia Bartoli is planned. "I love to work with singers because you learn so much. Every note has a meaning. It helps me to understand the phrasing and also the expression in the music. Bartoli is my favourite singer in the world. Very few open up your heart. When she comes to the stage she's like a sun. The whole room is sparkling with stars.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The definitive sonnambula Nov 4, 2008
Cecilia Bartoli & other soloists ... Cecilia Bartoli has spent much of her career communing with the ghosts of other singers. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
A diversity of divas Jul 13, 2008
Stage director Michael Scarola served as assistant director on the 1997 Metropolitan Opera production with Cecilia Bartoli and later helmed it for Knoxville Opera in 2002, so he jumped at the chance to direct the piece when invited by Altman last year. "What has made the piece so special for me is the cast itself," he says. (NJ.com -- Times)
Opera manager Edgar Vincent dead at 90 Jul 1, 2008
In an career that landed his clients on newspaper front pages and magazine covers, Vincent was the publicist for sopranos Birgit Nilsson and Mirella Freni, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, basses Ezio Pinza and Cesare Siepi, and violinist Yehudi Menuhin. He managed conductor Erich Leinsdorf and soprano Teresa Stratas. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Zurich Opera and Cecilia Bartoli revive Halévy's opera 'Clari' May 27, 2008
Zurich Opera and Cecilia Bartoli revive Hal ... Zurich Opera and Cecilia Bartoli revive Hal ... For over a year Cecilia Bartoli has concentrated her skills on repertoire once sung by the great 19th-century mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Soprano Bayrakdarian does vivid justice to classical Cleopatra in all her glory Mar 16, 2008
Bayrakdarian owes a little to the Cecilia Bartoli school of coloratura singing - the passagework was precise but laborious, and attended by a series of odd grimaces. Still, there was no denying the athletic power of her delivery, and no way to resist the harmonic quirks of Graun's unusual overture. (San Francisco Chronicle)
CLASSICAL MUSIC - Cecilia Bartoli Dec 21, 2007
Cecilia Bartoli's "Maria Malibran" tour is travelling from London on to Basel, Nuremberg, Bremen, and throughout eight countries of Europe (including her first appearance in Wales) until June of next year. And she is taking her van with her. (Financial Times)
In Italy, a compact attempt to save a dying art Nov 14, 2007
When the soprano Cecilia Bartoli recently told a German newspaper that "opera in Italy is a museum with dusty exhibits," she echoed the composer Luciano Berio, who in exasperation a dozen years ago called Italian opera administrators "cr?tins" and said half the Italian opera houses should be closed because production standards had fallen so low. Periodically some new Italian production comes along, ostensibly to save the national art form. (International Herald Tribune)
A slow boat to anywhere Nov 8, 2007
That's why famed Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli prefers to cross the Atlantic for a concert tour by ship when she can fit it into her schedule ... Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, seen here aboard Silversea's Silver Shadow, says she prefers travelling by sea because it is easier on her voice. (Globe and Mail)
Pavarotti forever| Oct 28, 2007
To add a bit of variety, the album contains three duets with Cecilia Bartoli, Frank Sinatra and Andrea Bocelli. All of which makes for pure gold listening pleasure. (iAfrica.com)
The Week Ahead Oct 16, 2007
" MOVIES "Gone Baby Gone", directed by Ben Affleck and starring younger brother Casey, is the story of two investigators who search desperately for a young girl around Boston after she is kidnapped from her home. The film also stars Morgan Freeman, Michelle Monaghan and Ed Harris."Rendition" stars Reese Witherspoon as an American wife of an Egyptian-born chemical engineer who disappears on a flight from South Africa to Washington. As she urgently attempts to track him down, a CIA analyst, played... (CBS News)
* Mixed orchestra changing concepts about immigrants in Italy Oct 3, 2007
" Oddly, it helped that he was not expert in African or Indian or Andean music because he was not wedded to authenticity. Free to mix styles, languages and instruments, he came up with his own sound. Players said, "That's not Indian, that's not Senegalese," but came to see it was Indian and Senegalese, Tronco's way. Last year a documentary about the orchestra made the rounds of the international film festivals; it has become a box-office hit in Rome. A concurrent brassy, big-band-like recording,... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Netrebko and Gunn: Opera's sexy, sizzling duo Sep 24, 2007
Younger classical musicians have been marketed with an emphasis on their sex appeal for years think mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli or violinist Joshua Bell though few have so captivated the media with their natural assets. "I'm fine with it," Netrebko says simply. (USA Today -- Life)
Antonio Salieri Sep 16, 2007
The Salieri album, Cecilia Bartoli, Decca 475 100-2. Sources Consulted. (Suite101.com)
Thousands Pay Respects to Pavarotti Sep 9, 2007
Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, presenting a new CD in Rome on Friday, recalled the first time she heard Pavarotti sing, many years ago, at the Metropolitan Opera House. "I said to myself: God does exist," Bartoli was quoted by the news agency Ansa as saying. (Time.com)
Thousands pay respects to Pavarotti lying in state at Modena cathedral Sep 8, 2007
Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, presenting a new CD in Rome on Friday, recalled the first time she heard Pavarotti sing, many years ago, at the Metropolitan Opera House. "I said to myself: God does exist,'' Bartoli was quoted by the news agency Ansa as saying. But his legacy reached beyond the opera houses to reach the masses, working with fellow opera stars and pop icons alike. These far-from-the-opera house performances, including memorable nights under the stars at Rome's ancient Baths of... (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Opera events around the world 2007 Sep 1, 2007
Cecilia Bartoli will sing Amina, the sleepwalker, in a concert version of Bellini's "La Somnanbula" and Claudio Abbado will return to this spa town to lead "Fidelio." Sept. 23: Tristan und Isolde -- www. festspielhaus. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Tuscan Sun Fest: Talent in high places Aug 16, 2007
Cecilia Bartoli stepped in for ailing Anna Netrebko on Monday ... But then there are more pros: On Monday night, the the ailing Netrebko was replaced by the better-known and acclaimed Cecilia Bartoli. (CNN -- Travel)
Music Festival takes root in 'farmer-land' Jul 17, 2007
"When Europeans tour North America in the summer, obviously there's a circuit because not many people can afford to bring in Gidon Kremer or Cecilia Bartoli or people like that," Mr. Rheaume said. "The circuit is very simple: Boston with Tanglewood, then they go to Chicago for Ravinia, then New York sometimes at Lincoln Centre, sometimes they go to the Hollywood Bowl, and then they come to Joliette.... I don't hear that these people are presented elsewhere in Canada.". (National Post)
Cole Steps Down May 17, 2007
" But Cole's eclectic tastes and his keen nose for talent have paid other dividends as well. He presented the second U.S. recital by mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli -- the first, he says, was a stopover in Kansas City on her way west -- and he introduced local audiences to such performers as bass-baritone Bryn Terfel and tenor Ian Bostridge. He has cultivated a long and fruitful relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham, commissioning and premiering two full-length works, "Ocean" and... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Shake-up at opera surprises arts fans Apr 5, 2007
During his time with Orlando Opera, Swedberg produced or directed more than 80 opera productions, concerts and recitals, and worked with talents such as Cecilia Bartoli, Placido Domingo, Jerry Hadley, Sam Ramey and Denyce Graves. But he said he is most proud of developing the Heinz Rehfuss Singing Actor Awards and the Resident and Studio Artists programs, co-founding the Negro Spiritual Scholarship Foundation and giving early support to the musicians who founded the Orlando Philharmonic. (Orlando Sentinel)
New professional concerts director prepares to tap into University’s knowledge to lure new audiences Mar 30, 2007
The nationally renowned series has more recently presented such young virtuosos as violinist Hilary Hahn, soprano Cecilia Bartoli and cellist Truls Mork. As high as 60 percent of the concerts we present every season are Chicago debuts, Quill said. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Cecilia Bartoli shines in a new staging of "Semele" Jan 24, 2007
Suzanne Schwiertz Cecilia Bartoli as Semele and Charles Workman as Jupiter in a scene from "Semele" at the Zurich opera ... ZURICH: The prospect of witnessing Cecilia Bartoli in an important a new role was probably the greatest draw, but the Zurich Opera House's new production of Handel's "Semele" also happened to be the first staging by the director Robert Carsen since his production of "Candide" met a curious reception at Paris's Th. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A can-do Candide attitude Jan 6, 2007
"The cancellation announcement came as a complete shock to us," a slightly bewildered Carsen explained in a phone interview yesterday from Zurich, where he is rehearsing his next opera, with Cecilia Bartoli. Carsen was caught off guard, because Lissner was familiar with Candide plans a collaboration between Le Chtelet in Paris, La Scala and the English National Opera in London long before he came to Paris. (Toronto Star)
