About Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli OMRI is an Italian mezzo-soprano, widely known for her renditions of the music of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, and Vivaldi, as well as lesser-known music of the Baroque and Classical periods. She has also sung soprano and alto repertory. Her parents, Silvana Bazzoni and Pietro Angelo Bartoli, were professional singers and her first music teachers. Cecilia first performed publicly at age nine as the shepherd boy in Tosca. Cecilia Bartoli OMRI (Italian:; born 4 June 1966) is an Italian mezzo-soprano, widely known for her renditions of the music of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, and Vivaldi, as well as lesser-known music of the Baroque and Classical periods. In addition to her focus on Mozart and Rossini, Bartoli has also spent much of her career performing and recording Baroque and early Classical era music by such composers as Gluck, Vivaldi, Haydn, and Salieri.
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