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 ...

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. Credit... Supported by By Joshua Barone Reporting from Salzburg ...

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 ...