and her tenorfather, pietro bartoli, met while performing together in 1957. cecilia s mother attends most of her performances and she is most definitely still a mamma s girl. cecilia bartoli s mother was absolutely critical in the creation of her as an artist. as an opera singer, you can t be a part time opera singer. you have to be absolutely committed from quite a young age. you have to be able to move and sing at the same time, all those things really take a lot of pushing. and i think you need somebody behind you and cecilia bartoli has her mother. what makes cecilia so special is her ability to dig up and bring back to life old treasures from the baroque period of the 17th and 18th centuries by composers like handel and vivaldi. this is why she is known as the queen of baroque.
i am a curious person, in life, in general, and of course i have done many, let s say, operas which are considered popular. then i was also curious to find out who inspired rossini, who inspired mozart, and of course in order to do that you have to go back and this was fascinating to do this research in baroque music with handel, vivaldi.
what makes cecilia so special is her ability to dig up and bring back to life old treasures from the baroque period of the 17th and 18th centuries by composers like handel and vivaldi. this is why she is known as the queen of baroque. i am a curious person, in life, in general, and of course i have done many, let s say, operas which are considered popular. then i was also curious to find out who inspired rossini, who inspired mozart, and of course in order to do that you have to go back and this was fascinating to do this research in baroque music with handel, vivaldi.
with handel, vivaldi. she is really, really pushing the boundaries of what we think of as opera and she has done that single handedly and made it really entertaining. cecilia bartoli looks at a score and she thinks, this is amazing music, and then she performs it, and often it is very florid, incredibly technically demanding, and half the time it has not been sung because it isjust too difficult to sing. she can do it. applause.
you have to be able to move and sing at the same time, all those things really take a lot of pushing. and i think you need somebody behind you and cecilia bartoli has her mother. what makes cecilia so special is her ability to dig up and bring back to life old treasures from the baroque period of the 17th and 18th centuries by composers like handel and vivaldi. this is why she is known as the queen of baroque. i am a curious person, in life, in general, and of course i have done many, let s say, operas which are considered popular. then i was also curious to find out who inspired rossini, who inspired mozart, and of course in order to do that you have to go back and this was fascinating to do this research in baroque music