Cecilia Bartoli - The DVD Collection

Starring: Cecilia Bartoli Dvd Release: 8th March, 2004 Number Of Discs: 3 Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Colour, PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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The Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli is a popular opera singer & recitalist. She is best-known for her Mozart & Rossini roles as well as for her performances of lesser-known baroque music. In contrast to most opera singers, Bartoli came to prominence at a very young age -- in her early twenties. Bartoli was born in Rome. Her parents were both professional singers & gave her her first music lessons. Her first public performance was at age nine as a shepherd boy in Tosca. Bartoli later studied at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia. In 1985, at age 19, Bartoli appeared in a talent show on Italian television; the conductor Riccardo Muti saw her performance & invited her to audition at La Scala. Several years later, Herbert von Karajan invited her to sing at the 1990 Salzburg Easter Festival. At this time, she also came to Daniel Barenboim s attention when he saw her performing on a French television tribute to Maria Callas. Working with the conductors Barenboim & Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bartoli focussed on Mozart roles & from then on her career developed internationally.

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