Cecilia Bartoli

Complaints recently lobbed at Renée Fleming and Angela Gheorghiu over shortchanging their concert audiences could not be levelled at Cecilia Bartoli. Read More

No one paid a higher price for celebrity than the male soprano of the 18th-century, those greatest of European stars, whose fame in their own time was proportionally greater even than that of George Clooney, Madonna, Brittany Spears or of those opera singers' most direct modern descendant, Michael Jackson. Read More

That's Marin Alsop , speaking about Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the French pianist with the scintillant technique, refined musicality and really great clothes. Read More

It's not the pyrotechnic pieces that are the most difficult, Cecilia Bartoli says. Read More

In only its nine years of existence iTunes has become an incredible marketing tool for musicians. Read More

With more than eight million CDs sold, four Grammys and numerous Gold Disc awards, opera star Cecilia Bartoli could easily set her career on cruise control. Read More

Cecilia BartoliSacrificiumDecca Karina GauvinPorpora AriasAtma Classique Both Bartoli and Gauvin take the 18th-century Neapolitan composer-teacher Nicola Porpora as their starting point for a survey of music written for leading castrati of the day, of whom Farinelli was primus inter pares. Read More

Cecilia Bartoli could have followed the path of least resistance. Read More

Long before botched plastic surgery ruined a movie star's career, they were the original showbiz victims. Read More

Some call her the last of the divas, but tonight Cecilia Bartoli is playing the last of the castratos. Read More