SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — Cecilia Bartoli has a favorite role she wished she could sing. “There is one character which I was always in love with since I started my Mozart career, and it’s Don Giovanni, ...

The performers include an Italian tenor who is one of the most successful singers in the world and an actress who has had roles in “The White Lotus” and “The Paper.” By Victor Mather and Joshua Barone ...

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 ...

The award-winning soprano uncovers the music of an Italian composer on her new album, Mission. Cecilia Bartoli's Latest 'Mission' Rediscovers Agostino Steffani Cecilia Bartoli has a passion for ...

Critic Lloyd Schwartz welcomes the opera star's new album, Mission, which breathes new life into the work of Italian composer Agostino Steffani.... Cecilia Bartoli's New 'Mission' Unearths Baroque ...

Cecilia Bartoli isn't your average opera star. She doesn't sing many of the popular 19th century operas. Instead, she prefers to explore the dusty, little-known corners of the 18th century. Bartoli's ...

A high-pitched voice, questionable sexuality and ear-grabbing melodies -- the new Decca album “Sacrificium” may sound like a posthumous Michael Jackson collection; instead, it’s a collection of 17th ...

The sound of Cecilia Bartoli executing an operatic cadenza at breakneck speed, or yet another slowed down to a kind of perfume hanging in midair, the tiniest hemi demisemiquaver precisely in place and ...

Opera luminary and media darling Cecilia Bartoli, who had never before sung any closer to Los Angeles than Pasadena (twice, at the lamented Ambassador Auditorium) brought down the house so many times ...