#cecilia bartoli

[derring-do]

Opera Streams: Early-Mid October 2025

1st: Verdi's La traviata from Dallas Opera. Featuring Yaritza Véliz, Javier Camarena, and Alfredo Daza. Free!

1st: Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle from the Bartók Festival. Concert presentation & the second half of a larger program. Featuring Lilla Horti and Miklós Sebestyén. Subscription.

5th: Smetana's The Bartered Bride from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Slavka Zámečníková, Pavol Breslik, and Peter Kellner. Free (with login)!

5th: Rossini's La Cenerentola from Rossini in Wildbad. Featuring Polina Anikina, Patrick Kabongo, and Filippo Morace. Free!

10th: Verdi's Aida from Opéra de Paris. Featuring Saioa Hernández, Piotr Beczała, and Ève-Maud Hubeaux. Subscription or rental.

12th: Hotel Metamorphosis, a Vivaldi pastiche adapting Ovid from the Salzburger Festspiele. Featuring Lea Desandre, Cecilia Bartoli, and Philippe Jaroussky. Free! (VPN may be required to view in North America)

12th: Moniuszko's The Countess from Poznań Opera. Featuring Aleksandra Orłowska, Łukasz Załęski, Magdalena Pluta. Free!

Archive note: the recent Salome with Elza van den Heever and Peter Mattei is now streaming on Met Opera On Demand.

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

glorious

[gluecookie]

who is the guy in your pfp btw? 👀

its my gal Cecilia Bartoli playing a trouser role! I'm not sure which guy it is I just found it googling her name. Maybe her Farinelli tour?? Not sure, I liked it and put sparkles and circles on it so she'd look like a shoujo manga boy

[ml-nolan]

Found my favorite mezzo performing "Piangerò...La Sorte Mia" with a bag over her head, so that's pretty cool.

P.S. It has one of the worst placed ad breaks ever (so try to get around that one if you can).

[clouds-of-wings]

Incredible how some people genuinely give Cecilia Bartoli shit for the way she expresses herself on stage. God forbid you're dramatic and passionate in the drama and passion music genre I guess?? I just saw her in "Nina" and almost started crying when she recognized her father, momentarily snapped out of her "madness", and yelled at him. I could really feel that despair, that helpless rage, that grief. So many female singers are afraid to "make faces" on stage, they think it will look ugly, or some idiot told them it would. Particularly when it comes to negative emotions. So glad that Cecilia isn't afraid to go there. She's spicy and intense and I love it.

(I know she's celebrated and probably only a few people really have a problem with her style. But why would anyone. Her style is awesome.)

[kimwexlers-brownhair]

AU where Irene Adler and Christine Daaé sing together at the Palais Garnier. Here are Christine as Adalgisa and Irene as Norma in Bellini's Norma. Both roles are traditionally sung in the other's fach, but I've heard the roles switched before to great effect.

I'm also working on a piece of them as Carmen and Micaela in Carmen, and as Angelina and Clorinda in La Cenerentola. I'm not too satisfied with them yet, though, so will post later.

[mrbacf]

Porpora - Arie per Farinelli - Cecilia Bartoli - mezzo-soprano

[thesobsister]

Cecilia Bartoli, Sacrificium

Based on her 2009 album that explored, and paid tribute to, castrati and the music they sang. A coloratura mezzo with a voice this strong is probably the closest we'll get to hearing what a castrato sounded like back in the 17th and 18th centuries.