It’s been almost 20 years since mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli released her historic recording The Vivaldi Album – and now she’s back with another solo recording of the great Italian composer's music.

Like another famous Roman before her, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli came, saw and conquered in Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall on Wednesday night. For the cancellation-prone diva, the first part of that ...

Sometimes you have to wait a long time for success. In the case of the 18th-century Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, it took 200 years. The wait, however, was well worth it. His biggest hit, the ...

Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the 20 surviving operas of Vivaldi with two concertos. Given with the early music ensemble Il Giardino ...

Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” is one of the most popular pieces of music in the world. It’s heard everywhere--on radio, aboard airplanes, in supermarkets, as background for television ads. There are ...

Cecilia Bartoli OMRI (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 ...

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Anyone with even a passing interest in Baroque music will be familiar with the notion that Vivaldi wrote the same formulaic concerto hundreds of times, will likely be sick to death of “The Four ...

The small Roman mezzo-soprano of Cecilia Bartoli found itself in the vast space of the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Friday evening for a long-awaited, sold-out Washington debut. So tight were ...

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 ...