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Cecilia Bartoli - Unreleased
19th Nov 2021
The Roman mezzo is in electrifying form in a programme of operatic and concert-arias by Haydn, Mysliveček, Mozart and Beethoven with the Kammerorchester Basel, recorded back in 2013.
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Cecilia Bartoli sparkles as Rossini's 'Italiana in Algeri'
9th Aug 2019
The Roman mezzo makes her role-debut as the feisty feminist Isabella in Rossini's culture-clash comedy, filmed last year at the Salzburg Festival and directed by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier.
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Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (DVD)
Cecilia Bartoli (Isabella), Edgardo Rocha (Lindoro), Ildar Abdrazakov (Mustafà), Alessandro Corbelli (Taddeo), Rebeca Olvera (Elvira), Rosa Bove (Zulma), José Coca Loza (Haly) Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier
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Vivaldi from Cecilia Bartoli and Ensemble Matheus
23rd Nov 2018
Nearly twenty years after her landmark album devoted to the operas of the 'Red Priest', the Italian mezzo is as dazzling as ever in arias from works including Orlando furioso, Il Giustino and Ottone in Villa.
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Christmas music from Le Concert Spirituel, the Sistine Chapel, and Merton College Oxford
1st Dec 2017
Katherine enjoys a contemplative programme of Advent and Christmas motets from the Vatican choir (plus a very special guest!) and an incisive Messiah with a difference from Hervé Niquet.
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Dolce Duello - Cecilia Bartoli and Sol Gabetta
10th Nov 2017
The Italian mezzo and Argentine cellist go head-to-head in a collection of baroque 'sweet duels' celebrating the affinity of the cello and the human voice.
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Cecilia Bartoli sings music from 18th-century Russia
13th Oct 2014
Chris listens to superstar mezzo Cecilia's latest disc, exploring music written for the court of St Petersburg in the Eighteenth Century.
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Cecilia Bartoli sings Bellini’s Norma
20th May 2013
Giovanni Antonini recreates Bellini’s masterpiece as it would have been heard at its 1831 premiere, with period instruments, a light soprano Adalgisa, and a high mezzo in the formidable title-role – Bartoli, radiating neurotic intensity and raw pathos as the infanticidal Druid priestess.
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Mission: Cecilia Bartoli
15th Oct 2012
The intrepid Roman mezzo explores the music of Agostino Steffani - Italian composer, cleric, diplomat and spy – in a programme of blazing martial show-stoppers, coloratura pyrotechnics, long-breathed laments, and four delectable duets with countertenor Philippe Jaroussky.
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Cecilia Bartoli and the world of Castratos
26th Oct 2009
The intrepid Italian mezzo explores repertoire composed for Farinelli, Caffarelli and Senesino (including music by Porpora, Caldara, Vinci and Leo) with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini.
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The forgotten Maria
12th Nov 2007
Cecilia Bartoli explores the legacy of the nineteenth-century Spanish mezzo Maria Malibran, who created the title-role in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda and was particularly associated with the heroines of Rossini.
