Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli ( born June 4, 1966 in Rome) is considered one of the best and most commercially successful opera singers of our time. She is a coloratura mezzo- soprano with a rich, dark timbre and is admired not only for her musical talent, but also because of their natural appearance and spirited stage presence. Cecilia Bartoli is to give the audience an almost unknown and forgotten opera composers succeed.

Her repertoire includes the works of many composers, as it has a vocal range of about two and a half octaves. Among other things, she sings works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Rossini, as well as Gluck, Vivaldi, Paisiello, Bellini, Donizetti or Salieri and forgotten operas by Haydn, Handel, Halévy and many others.

Life

Cecilia Bartoli's parents - Angelo Bartoli and Silvana Bazzoni - were both opera singers. Her mother gave the children because quite a promising solo career as soprano; She sang in the choir from now on Rome's Opera House and was dedicated to her three children Gabriele († 1998), Cecilia and Federica. The parents' marriage broke up. The father continued his career as a tenor in Rimini, had there but only a mediocre success.

The mother recognized early the great talent of their daughter Cecilia. This, however, would first be a tour guide or a flamenco dancer. Her mother persuaded them to cultivate their talent for singing, and gave her about 16 years ago the first singing lessons. Silvana Bazzoni remained during Cecilia's studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, which she recorded at the age of 17 years, her only voice teacher.

Career

Her first appearance on a stage was Cecilia was nine years old in Puccini's Tosca as a shepherd boy in Rome. In 1985, at the age of 19, Bartoli appeared in a talent show on Italian television. They only took the second place, yet they attracted attention. So she finally made her debut as Rosina in Rossini's Barber of Seville at the Opera her hometown at the age of 19 years.

The international breakthrough came in 1988 with her appearance at the Paris Opera to Tribute to Maria Callas, through which the conductor Herbert von Karajan, Daniel Barenboim and Nikolaus Harnoncourt were aware of them.

Later she was invited by Herbert von Karajan in Salzburg, where they rehearsed Bach's B Minor Mass with him. Since Karajan died, it never came to the performance. Accompanied by Daniel Barenboim and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, she specialized in Mozart roles and lesser-known works from the baroque and early classical music and quickly became internationally known. 3/1993 she sang at La Scala Milan in " Don Giovanni " ( Ricardo Muti / Philippe Auguin ) In 1996 she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Despina in Mozart's Così fan tutte. The following year, she sang the title role in Rossini's La Cenerentola.

Among her recent roles Fiorilla belong in Rossini's Turco in Italia at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare conducted by Marc Minkowski, Semele under William Christie at the Zurich Opera House and the Clari in Halévy 's opera conducted by Adam Fischer, also in Zurich. 2007/ 08 was dedicated to Cecilia Bartoli the great singer 's first international opera star Maria Malibran ( 1808-1836 ). 2009, she worked in her Sacrificium project with the history of Kastratensänger and recorded a CD with arias that were written for castrati. In June 2010 she sang for the first time the title role in Bellini's Norma with conductor Thomas Hengelbrock concert in the Konzerthaus Dortmund.

Since 2012 she directs the Salzburg Whitsun Festival and celebrated in the very first season - as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare in Egitto - a veritable triumph. 2013, it has there the title role of Bellini's Norma for the first time sung in a staged performance (conductor Giovanni Antonini, Orchestra La Scintilla, directed by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier ). In the following year they will both Cenerentola, as well as Desdemona in Rossini's Otello embody.

Music

Cecilia Bartoli speaks except Italian, English, French, Spanish and German, but sings most like in their native language, because the feeling for the language it is safest here. She says of itself that it would endeavor to always then develop and to explore the repertoire and constantly see it from other perspectives. Important for them is to penetrate to the roots and always something new to discover.

Cecilia Bartoli discovered some original score forgotten composers and operas and found that several arias in the course of time had been adapted to the preferences of the singers - and she sings from now on, as the composer has provided it in the original score (example: Bellini's Norma). Furthermore, it seeks to authenticity by working with orchestras, playing with old instruments ( for example, Concentus Musicus Wien, Il Giardino Armonico, Orchestra La Scintilla, and others). This also caters to her voice - which is referred to by critics as small - because orchestras from early eras include fewer instruments than is usual today.

On a double CD in 2009 she took " castrato arias " and commented on the issue in the booklet entitled Sacrificium. She remembered the fact of the suffering and the art of the Kastratensänger of the 18th century.

Cecilia Bartoli sings regularly in major concert halls and opera houses in the world. Her current parent company is Zurich Opera House. She lives near Zurich and is married to the Swiss baritone Oliver Widmer.

Cecilia Bartoli Music Foundation

2007 Cecilia Bartoli Music Foundation was founded, which in general is dedicated to the promotion of music. Among other things, this includes the discovery, performance and distribution of music, including the construction of collections, the organization of exhibitions and the support of music projects of any kind in 2007/ 08 funded them a mobile exhibition in a truck about opera singer Maria Malibran as accompanied by their European tour with arias from Malibran's repertoire.

Awards - Awards

2013: Record 49th Academy Awards Japan, Gold Award
2013: Culture of Merit (Monaco) - Ordre du Mérite Culturel
2012: Swiss Award in the category Culture
2012: Herbert von Karajan Music Prize
2012: Honorary book Godmother society woman Münster
2011: Member of the Kungliga Musikaliska Academies ( Royal Swedish Academy of Music)
2010: Honorary Doctor of the University College Dublin
2010: Record Academy Award Japan
2010: Handel Prize of the city of Halle Saale
2010: Léonie Sonning Music Prize
Italy: " Cavaliere " and " Accademico effettivo di Santa Cecilia "
France: " Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres "
London: "Honorary Member" of the Royal Academy of Music
Grammy in the category Best Classical Vocal Performance (2002)
Bambi (2002)
ECHO Klassik 2008 - Singer of the Year: Cecilia Bartoli - Maria Malibran: Maria
ECHO Klassik 2006 - Singer of the Year: Cecilia Bartoli - G. F. Handel, A. Caldara: Opera Proibita
ECHO Klassik 2004 - Best-Selling Album: Cecilia Bartoli - The Salieri Album ( Antonio Salieri )
ECHO Klassik 2000 - Solo Recording of the Year: Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Il Giardino Armonico, Cecilia Bartoli - The Vivaldi Album ( 17th/18th century ).
ECHO Klassik 1994 - Singer of the Year: Cecilia Bartoli - La Cenerentola ( Rossini ), Orchestra e coro the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly
ECHO Klassik 1994 - Lifetime achievement: Song Recording of the Year: Cecilia Bartoli, Andras Schiff - Italian Songs ( L. v. Beethoven, F. Schubert, W. A. Mozart, J. Haydn )
Gold record for 100,000 copies sold of the album "Opera Proibita "

Discography

Operas

Bellini: Norma ( 2013)
Bellini: La Sonnambula (2008)
Halevy: Clari (2008)
Mozart: Don Giovanni (2001)
Handel: Rinaldo (2000)
Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto (1999)
Rossini: Il Turco in Italia (1998)
Haydn: Orfeo ed Euridice (1997)
Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito (1995 )
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (1994 )
Rossini: La Cenerentola (1993, 2007)
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (1993 )
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1989 )

Orchesterecitals

Steffani: "Mission " (2012)
Sacrificium (2009)
Maria (A Tribute to Maria Malibran ) (2007 )
Proibita Opera (2005)
The Salieri Album ( 2003)
Cecilia and Bryn (1999)
The Vivaldi Album ( 1999)
Mozart: Portraits (1994 )
Rossini: Heroines (1992 )
Rossini: Recital (1990 )
Mozart: Arias (1991 )
Rossini: Arias (1989 )

Piano recitals

Live in Italy (1998)
An Italian Songbook (1997)
Chant d' Amour (1996 )
Italian Songs (1993 )
Arie Antiche (1992 )

Sacred Music

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, Salve Regina
Scarlatti: Salve Regina
Mozart: Requiem (1992 )

Cantatas

Rossini: Cantatas, Volume 2

Collections

Mission. Arias from operas by Agostino Steffani (2012 )
Sospiri (2010)
Proibita Opera (2005)
The Art of Cecilia Bartoli (2002)
A Portrait ( 1995)

Roll

Bellini " La Sonnambula ": Amina; "Norma" Norma

Ciampi " Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno ": Alboino

Duruflé 's "Requiem": soprano

Fauré 's "Requiem": soprano

Fioravanti " Le Cantatrici villane ": Gianetta; " Orfeo ed Euridice": Genio; " Orlando Paladino ": Angelica

Halévy " Clari ": Clari

Handel cantata " Armida abbandonata "; "Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno " Il Piacere; " Giulio Cesare in Egitto ": Cleopatra; cantata " Languia di bocca lusinghiera "; " Rinaldo ": Almirena; " Semele ": Semele

Haydn cantata " Arianna a Naxos "; " Armida ": Armida; " Harmony Mass ": soprano; " Orfeo ed Euridice": Euridice

Mottetto Mozart " Exsultate, jubilate "; " Così fan tutte ": Despina, Dorabella, Fiordiligi; " Don Giovanni " Donna Elvira, Zerlina; "Idomeneo, re di Creta ": Idamantes; " La Clemenza di Tito" Sesto; " Le nozze di Figaro " Cherubino, Susanna; " Lucio Silla ": Cecilio; " Mitridate, Re di Ponto ": Sifare; "Requiem": mezzo - soprano

Paisiello " Nina o sia La Pazza per Amore ": Nina

Pergolesi 's "Stabat Mater": mezzo - soprano

Puccini 's "Manon Lescaut ": Un musico

Rossini 's "Stabat Mater": soprano II; " Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo ": Cerere, cantata " Giovanna d' Arco "; "Il Barbiere di Siviglia ": Rosina; "Il Turco in Italia ": Fiorilla; " La Cenerentola ": Angelina; " La Pietra di Paragone ": marchese Clarice; " La Scala di Seta ": Lucilla; " Le Comte Ory " La Comtesse Adèle, insulation; " Otello ossia il Moro di Venezia ": Desdemona

Scarlatti 's "Stabat Mater": soprano, Baroque pasticcio; "Donna Abbandonata " Juno, Almira

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