Each of these relatively short works holds a powerful emotion-the sadness of an abandoned woman or an orphaned Tyrolean girl; the giddy cheer of an up-tempo dance or a woman in the first throes of ...

Opera Proibita (Forbidden Opera) is no Adam and Eve story. But it is, thanks to Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, an introduction to some of the extraordinary music written in Rome at the ...

The sound of Cecilia Bartoli executing an operatic cadenza at breakneck speed, or yet another slowed down to a kind of perfume hanging in midair, the tiniest hemi demisemiquaver precisely in place and ...

Bartoli has an astonishing capacity for both vocal fireworks (rare for a mezzo-soprano) and warm, delicate lyricism, and they alternate in a startling way on this recording. She gets to sing the same ...

In this vibrant historical concept album, mezzo-soprano powerhouse Cecilia Bartoli pays tribute to the 19th century Spanish singer Maria Malibran, who burned bright before dying at age 28 in 1836.

Cecilia Bartoli has a passion for musical archaeology: "I am the Indiana Jones of classical," she says jokingly to All Things Considered host Robert Siegel. Bartoli rummages through music history to ...

Firstly, The Salieri Album is the finest recording of any music to come my way in 2003. That this it is not jazz is immaterial. Prima mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli began a recording crusade ...

Cecilia Bartoli isn't your average opera star. She doesn't sing many of the popular 19th century operas. Instead, she prefers to explore the dusty, little-known corners of the 18th century. Bartoli's ...

Luciano Pavarotti’s successor as opera’s biggest draw is not balding, fat and homely. In fact, the new King of Opera is a beautiful young Queen. People who know about Cecilia Bartoli are probably ...

Firstly, The Salieri Album is the finest recording of any music to come my way in 2003. That this it is not jazz is immaterial. Prima mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli began a recording crusade ...

A star mezzo-soprano, Bartoli also runs a festival and an opera house at an age when others start to retire. And she’s not slowing down. By Joshua Barone “Our present reality seems to be completely ...

“Our present reality seems to be completely out of joint with universal bonds and perspectives,” the festival’s artistic director said. By Javier C. Hernández Classical music’s pre-eminent annual ...