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Born in Rome, Bartoli grew up in a musical family – both her parents Rataplan, chansonette, composed by the legendary singer Maria Malibran.
Cecilia Bartoli (Italian pronunciation: ; born June 4, 1966 in Rome) is an Italian mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist.
CECILIA BARTOLI just may have found the role of a lifetime: the diva Maria Malibran, who was born in 1808 and died in 1836.

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Cecilia Bartoli

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Cecilia Bartoli (Italian pronunciation: ; born June 4, 1966 in Rome) is an Italian mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best-known for her interpretation of the music of Mozart and Rossini, as well as for her performances of lesser-known Baroque and classical music. She is known for having the versatility to play both soprano and mezzo roles, and is sometimes considered a soprano with a low tessitura. Bartoli's coloratura skill has earned her the title the Queen of Agility. Bartoli is considered a coloratura mezzo-soprano with an unusual timbre. She is one of the m… read more

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Cecilia Bartoli

Together with the Latvian Elīna Garanča, the Italian Cecilia Bartoli is one of the world’s leading mezzo-sopranos. Cecilia was born in Rome on June 6, 1966. Both her parents, Silvana Bazzoni and Angelo Bartoli, were professional singers. Her mother, was a soprano who abandoned her solo career in favor of her three children and subsequently only sang in the choir of the Roman Opera. Cecilia’s parents divorced and her father, a tenor, continued his (minor) career in Rimini. Incidentally, Cecilia Bartoli lives in Zurich, Switzerland.

The parents, mainly Silvana Bazzoni, taught Cecilia, who also studied at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome. At the age of 9, Cecilia made her first public appearance as a shepherd boy in Giacomo Puccini‘s Tosca. At 19, she participated in the talent show Fantastico and immediately received an invitation by the director Riccardo Muti to audition at the famous Scala in Milan.

Cecilia Bartoli worked with Herbert von Karajan on Bach’s Mass in B Minor and was invited by him to participate in Salzbur

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Cecilia Bartoli Maria Review

Cecilia Bartoli stands apart from other classical artists with her talent for unearthing and breathing new life into long-forgotten music, rather than re-recording the core repertoire. Perhaps more than any other current performer, she doesn't just lead listeners into different sound worlds but also historical ones, and never has this been more the case than with Maria, her exploration of the repertoire of the 19th-century Spanish diva, Maria Malibran.

Bartoli's fans will have heard her perform songs by Pauline Viardot; Malibran was Viardot's elder sister and, like Bartoli, a mezzo-soprano. An international superstar, Malibran was famed for an extraordinary voice which seems to have had a range of nearly three octaves, her expressive acting, and her turbulent private life. Rossini raved about her "disconcerting musical genius" with which she "surpassed all who sought to emulate her". By the time she died in a riding accident aged only twenty eight, she had sung across Europe and America, had roles were created for her, and a theatre named aft