Be afraid. Be very afraid… Cecilia Bartoli’s on a mission: her new album

Be afraid. Be very afraid…  Cecilia Bar­toli is set to erad­ic­ate evil. No, she’s not going out to exor­cise the hor­rors of the cros­sover, but releas­ing a new cd called Mis­sion with the Swiss group I Baroc­chisti  dir­ec­ted by Diego Fasolis.

And that’s it.

Decca, with their usual mar­ket­ing cun­ning, aren’t giv­ing away more than this at present. Obvi­ously hop­ing for a viral cam­paign they have cre­ated a site where it will be pos­sible to enter clues taken from ‘webisodes’ about the record­ing of the disc.

The first is here, with Bar­toli arriv­ing at the record­ing venue, being houn­ded by a TV crew. Each clip con­tains a clue which, when entered in the site, will allow access to ‘secret con­tent’ of ‘Mis­sion’ — like who the com­posers are, one hopes. There are eight clues in all, and the first is… oh I won’t spoil it.

In the past we’ve seen Bartoli’s hair, Anna Mag­nani–style, fight­ing to escape from hair­pins and elast­ics; we’ve seen it dis­cip­lined into a tight pony­tail; and, au naturel, like a brown-haired Ber­na­dette Peters. Now the hair has had it: Bald Bartoli.

As long as Fasolis’ head doesn’t start rotat­ing at 360°, and the Baroc­chisti don’t start vomit­ing green slime, we’ll be alright with Santa Cecilia.

 

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