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 ...
«Caldo sangue», tratta dall'oratorio Sedicia di Alessandro Scarlatti, è l'aria con cui il personaggio del giovane Ismaele, colpito a morte dal re Nabucco, sente mancare le forze e si congeda dalla ...
“Opera proibita” means forbidden opera. The Catholic Church essentially banned opera during the first decade of the 18th Century in Rome, leading to the rise of the Italian oratorio. As a result, ...
Cecilia Bartoli: Opera proibita. Les Musiciens du Louvre; Marc Minkowski, cond. (Decca) Bartoli, who made her local debut at Cal Performances in tiny Hertz Hall, returns in triumph to Zellerbach (the ...
Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli has given audiences plenty of memorable evenings in the nearly 15 years since Cal Performances presented her local debut. But Thursday's ravishing recital in Berkeley's ...
World-renowned Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli has one of the truly distinctive voices of the opera world, recognizable after merely a few notes. It helps to explain the "Bartoli Phenomenon" and ...