Casta diva par cecilia bartoli biography

Her parents Silvana Bazzoni, a lyric soprano and her tenor father Pietro Angelo Bartoli, abandoned their solo careers after their children arrived for the relative stability of the Rome Opera Chorus. Cecilia has a younger sister Federica, a stage designer and her late elder brother Gabriele was a professional viola player before he died of cancer in aged just In her teens Cecilia wanted to be a flamenco dancer and also played piano and trumpet.

But her mum, recognized her vocal gifts and encouraged her to audition for music school where her main teacher was a tenor. I only do things when they feel right. Some of her earliest days in Salzburg were captured in a documentary film, Karajan in Salzburg. She was so unknown then that she was mistakenly listed in the credits as Cecilia Bardi.

She began her career conventionally enough singing Rossini and Mozart but soon curiosity had her criss-crossing Europe in search of lost scores in dusty libraries and archives. Mozart wrote his operas knowing the voices of the singers who would interpret the roles. Atonal music creates a barrier between composer and singer so in order to find new music to sing I have to search in the past.

Of course, it was always a man, and a conductor. I was the first woman and about a hundred years younger than the others. Her return to Salzburg as both impresario and star diva brings her career full circle. She glows in public, her broad smile and animated expressions reaching across to audiences who are not always the rusted-on classical regulars.

Casta diva par cecilia bartoli biography

At the heart of her work and she has a tireless work ethic is her universal gift for story-telling. Wikimedia Commons : Andreas Praefcke. Rossini, Gioachino. Sospiri, She has a winning personality and a lively temperament. In Berlin, I saw her in stunning form in the second part of her performance with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the direction of Simon Rattle who was celebrated like a rock star after the concert by a young group of fans.

In Naples Italy on October 24, as a surprise guest at a free concert! Cecilia Bartoli: Mission , Order the CD Mission from Amazon. In Rome from , for almost three centuries, soprano and alto parts in church were sung by castratos. The most famous centers of castration were all in present-day Italy: Naples where to boys were castrated every year , Venice, Bologna, Milan and Florence.

The last famous castrato was Alessandro Moreschi He was active in rome until , even after the formal ban by Pope Pius X for castratos to perform in churches. In and , Moreschi recorded a few pieces, which constitute the only document of the sound of an important castrato voice. As several other albums, Cecilia Bartoli recorded Sacrificium together with Il Giardino Armonico, an Italian ensemble founded in Milan in by Luca Pianca and Giovanni Antonini, focusing mainly on 17th- and 18th-century Baroque music played on period instruments.

Sacrificium deluxe 2-CD limited edition contains 15 arias, 4 of which are by the composer, teacher and impresario Nicola Porpora , 2 by Antonio Caldara? Porpora died in Naples on March 3, forgotten and in poverty. Cecilia Bartoli revives his and the art of other composers of his era on Sacrificium. Maria Maria Malibran. She was a temperamental diva who lived fast and intensive.

She died at the age of Both her parents were singers, as with Cecilia Bartoli. He was also a composer and vocal instructor. He traveled with his Mariquita around the world. Her chance came in London at age 17, when she could fill in for the indisposed Giuditta Pasta as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia , a part for which Cecilia Bartoli herself is famous.

Haydn: Orfeo ed Euridice An Italian Songbook A Hymn for the World Rossini: Il Turco in Italia Live in Italy In Paradisum The Vivaldi Album Haydn: Armida Dreams and Fables: Gluck Italian Arias The Salieri Album Opera Proibita Maria Bellini: La Sonnambula Sacrificium Opera Mission Bellini: Norma