Who is cecilia bartoli

With a vocal range of three octaves and a unique ability to live a role with fullness of expression, Cecilia Bartoli has developed song as an art form. Cecilia Bartoli has spellbound audiences in the world's great opera houses, but is not content with the well-known repertoire. Cecilia Bartoli adds new chapters to the history of music, builds bridges between centuries and deepens our understanding of Europe's cultural heritage.

Cecilia Bartoli shows us that raised voices can change the world. Cecilia Bartoli said, on receiving her Award: "I am so excited! Thank you very much for this wonderful prize. I am deeply honoured and I am very proud. Thank you to the Polar Music Prize for supporting and promoting the universal values of music. For me, music is emotion, passion and humanity. I strongly believe in the power of music and I am here to share my belief with all of you!

I am so excited! Cecilia Bartoli was born in Rome in in a musical home with both parents being musicians. Her childhood and adolescence were filled with music, and she started vocal training with her mother Silvana Bazzoni by the age of During her formation as a singer, Cecilia Bartoli emerged as a coloratura mezzosopran with a high C, according to the Fach system. The German Fach system is a classification of voices by range, weight and colour.

The Fach system is still used today by singers and opera houses around the world, mostly as guidance for opera singers to know their range and consequently which type of role to focus on. It was during a gala concert in memory of Maria Callas that Daniel Barenboim, at the time leader of the Orchestra de Paris, saw her and invited her to work with him. These two artistic personalities converged in their passion and curiosity for music from past centuries.

Subscribe to medici. Jazz Jazz. Read Cecilia Bartoli's biography on her official website. All videos related to Cecilia Bartoli More info coming soon! Cecilia Bartoli and Friends. Cecilia Bartoli: The Barcelona Concert. Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Rossini's Otello. Karajan at the Salzburg Festival Her mother, Silvana Bazzoni, gave her singing lessons and remained her only teacher, even after she started studying, aged 17, at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

Cecilia Bartoli never had a career plan; looking back, she says she simply made music, and more and more music … which led to the RAI putting her on a television talent show and the opera house in Paris contracting her for a gala concert in memory of Maria Callas.

This too was televised, and this time she was seen by Daniel Barenboim, who invited her to work with him, as did Riccardo Muti and Herbert von Karajan. Nikolaus Harnoncourt was another person who sought an artistic collaboration with Cecilia Bartoli back then. He was followed by a number of other conductors, such as Giovanni Antonini, Marc Minkowski, Diego Fasolis and Gianluca Capuano, all of whom became important collaborators of Cecilia Bartoli.

Mozart and Rossini have always been and still are at the core of her repertoire. However, her inclination for discovery has also led her to major figures whose existence had been undeservedly somewhat more shadowy, including such greats as Salieri and Gluck.

She even rediscovered Vivaldi as a opera composer and also spectacularly rescued the Baroque composer Agostino Steffani from oblivion. All of these projects combine meticulousness and imagination, attention to philological detail, and the joy of unconventional ideas. CD covers and photo series always feature striking and highly creative visual motifs.

Renowned institutions like the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music have made her an honorary member, while University College Dublin awarded her an honorary doctorate.

Of all her awards, there is one of which she is particularly proud: a culinary recipe of hers was awarded a top score by none other than Gault Millau. Coming from Rome, and this always being in her heart and soul, this honour is something very special to her.