Renowned for her astounding range, the Italian mezzo-soprano's singing is a source of joy for adoring Opera fans.

Each of these relatively short works holds a powerful emotion-the sadness of an abandoned woman or an orphaned Tyrolean girl; the giddy cheer of an up-tempo dance or a woman in the first throes of ...

“Our present reality seems to be completely out of joint with universal bonds and perspectives,” the festival’s artistic director said. By Javier C. Hernández Classical music’s pre-eminent annual ...

SALZBURG, AustriaSALZBURG, Austria — 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 ...

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 ...

Bartoli has an astonishing capacity for both vocal fireworks (rare for a mezzo-soprano) and warm, delicate lyricism, and they alternate in a startling way on this recording. She gets to sing the same ...

Cecilia Bartoli has a passion for musical archaeology: "I am the Indiana Jones of classical," she says jokingly to All Things Considered host Robert Siegel. Bartoli rummages through music history to ...

Cecilia Bartoli, the famed operatic mezzo-soprano, has canceled her upcoming West Coast tour that was scheduled to kick off this month at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica and take her to venues in ...

Jean-Louis Grinda is the current director of the Opera de Monte-Carlo. He describes Bartoli as a "legend". They're "appointing a woman who is extraordinarily skilled, an artist who has left her mark ...

A star mezzo-soprano, Bartoli also runs a festival and an opera house at an age when others start to retire. And she’s not slowing down. By Joshua Barone “Our present reality seems to be completely ...

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 ...