New records set at Cecilia Bartoli’s Whitsun Festival in Salzburg

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May 222013
 

Cecilia Bartoli Norma 328x500 New records set at Cecilia Bartolis Whitsun Festival in SalzburgA new record for vis­it­ors and rev­enue has been set at Salzburg’s Whit­sun Fest­ival. The Fest­ival, which ran from 17–20 May, boas­ted 13,450 vis­it­ors from 43 coun­tries, who spent 1.3 mil­lion Euros in tickets.

After the artistic and eco­nomic suc­cess of last year’s and this year’s Fest­ival, the con­tract with the artistic dir­ector has been exten­ded until 2016, repor­ted the Salzburg Times.

I am very happy to be able to bring music and pleas­ure to Salzburg until 2016. I look for­ward to carry out many ideas at the Whit­sun Fest­ival, of which I have dreamt of for years. I am very thank­ful that such a huge and inter­ested audi­ence is so enthu­si­astic about us being adventurous.

Pres­id­ent of the , Helga Rabl-Stadler, is delighted with Bartoli’s record,

I am happy about the increase in the num­bers of vis­it­ors: 7,600 vis­it­ors came in 2011 and one year later, there were 10,520 vis­it­ors. A new record was set in 2013, when 2,900 addi­tional tick­ets were sold. May has become a first strong fest­ival month of the year.

The next Whit­sun Fest­ival runs from 5 to 9 June 2014, with ’s Cener­entola and Otello tak­ing centre stage.

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First reactions for Cecilia Bartoli as Norma

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May 182013
 

norma salzburger pfingstfestspiele 102 v image853 7ce44e292721619ab1c1077f6f262a89f55266d7 500x281 First reactions for Cecilia Bartoli as Norma

Who loves , will prob­ably love her Norma. Her eyes sparkle, she rolls her ‘R’s, breathes the piani, and tackles the eas­ily. Her stage début in Norma wants to get rid of the exist­ing per­form­ance tra­di­tion; to free inter­pret­ers from the shadow of Maria Cal­las. Bartoli’s Norma is a cel­eb­ra­tion of her own per­sonal style: some­what mannered, but per­fect, and always unmistakable.

says Bay­erischer Rund­funk.

How­ever Deutsch­landra­dio wanted to boo; not the per­formers or the pro­duc­tion team, but the audi­ence who annoyed with fall­ing hand­bags, cell-phones and inap­pro­pri­ate hys­ter­ical cries of “bravo!”. How­ever, they too cry “bravo” in their review,

Cecilia Bar­toli is, at the begin­ning of Bellini’s Norma in Salzburg, below her poten­tial, but then her musi­cian­ship shows through… After the inter­val Bar­toli was totally con­vin­cing, and her col­oratura fire­works fit per­fectly, but para­mount was her inter­pret­a­tion of the role, which offered some­thing spe­cial, very dif­fer­ent from Cal­las (and her count­less suc­cessors): a spir­itu­al­ity in the bel canto with innu­mer­able shades and col­ours.… [con­tinue reading]

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The first photos of Bartoli’s Norma at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival

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May 152013
 

Whitsun Festival 2013 500x424 The first photos of Bartolis Norma at the Salzburg Whitsun FestivalFirst glimpses of ’s Norma at Salzburg. They explain the cover of the Fest­ival brochure.

Bartoli’s intro­duc­tion to the Whit­sun Fest­ival bro­chure reads,

But also, Norma is often mis­judged from the point-of-view of its plot. A care­ful sta­ging will show, how­ever, that the grip­ping events unfold in a strin­gent and lin­ear way, reflect­ing how the heroine devel­ops emo­tion­ally until the con­scious final step towards her self-sacrifice at the stake.

And indeed this tra­gic con­flict between her duties and that towards which her heart is drawn is a struggle to which many women are exposed sooner or later. Too often, women give up what is most valu­able to them, but too often they them­selves are made into vic­tims. Norma tries to escape from such restraints by sac­ri­fi­cing that which is most dear to her: first her chil­dren, then her love and finally her life.… [con­tinue reading]

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Decca bring out the third Norma teaser video with Cecilia Bartoli and John Osborn

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May 022013
 

Noth­ing spe­cial here in the third clip from Decca in advance of the new Norma record­ing. Just a minute in length, with Cecilia gig­gling, Sumi Jo clown­ing and John Osborn smil­ing broadly dur­ing the record­ing sessions.

The clip announces at one point, “Tem­pos, keys and cut sec­tions are re-established fol­low­ing Bellini’s own sources.” It will cer­tainly have lots of crit­ics dig­ging deep into their insults dic­tion­ary, though this blog­ger can’t wait!

… [con­tinue reading]

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Decca gives up on puzzles and clues with the new clip of Cecilia Bartoli’s Norma

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Apr 242013
 

After fid­dling around with clues for the cd, and try­ing out a couple of days ago an on-screen puzzle for the new Norma record­ing, Decca have now decided to keep their promo cam­paign plain and simple and have put out a teaser on .

The clip shows scenes in and around the record­ing stu­dio, while we listen to a minute and a half of  Mira, o Norma, with as Norma and Sumi Jo as Adalgisa.

… [con­tinue reading]

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Bartoli’s back on the treasure trail with her Norma video

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Apr 192013
 

Norma Cecilia Bartoli 500x454 Bartolis back on the treasure trail with her Norma videoAfter offer­ing clues taken from ‘webisodes’ filmed dur­ing the record­ing of ’s cd , which even­tu­ally led to the name of the com­poser fea­tured on the disc, Decca are being cun­ning again by offer­ing ‘exclus­ive con­tent’ to stir up interest in La Ceci’s latest project.

Fol­low­ing this link, it is pos­sible to play a little game to recon­struct the cover of Norma, fig­ur­ing Bar­toli as she will pre­sum­ably be styled for the Salzburg pro­duc­tion on 17 May; an type, as she appeared in Franco Zeffirelli’s legendary pro­duc­tion of Gio­vanni Verga’s La Lupa in Florence in 1965.

If you’d rather not play the game, after 5 minutes it lets you see the video prize any­way: a peek back­stage dur­ing the record­ing of the opera, with  con­duct­ing (as he did on the and Viv­aldi discs).… [con­tinue reading]

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Police helicopters circle overhead as Cecilia Bartoli returns to Rome

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Apr 092013
 

P4080082 433x500 Police helicopters circle overhead as Cecilia Bartoli returns to RomeBar­toli fans battled their way to Renzo Piano’s glor­i­ous Aud­it­or­ium Parco della Musica through secur­ity cor­dons, with police heli­copters circ­ling over­head. These pre­cau­tions were not for the Roman diva’s pres­ence, but for the foot­ball ‘derby’ at the Olympic Sta­dium next door where the two local teams, Lazio and Roma, were playing.

The atmo­sphere in Sala Santa Cecilia was very dif­fer­ent to that among the tifosi who were mer­rily stabbing each other a few hun­dred metres away. A crowd of local fans, with many French, Ger­man and Aus­trian Ceci-lovers too, along with Italian celebs (a Bar­toli con­cert is a rare event in Italy!), and Cecilia’s mum and teacher, Sil­vana Bazzoni, with her brood of friends, gave the large aud­it­or­ium, with its 2,700 seats, a friendly, fam­ily atmo­sphere.… [con­tinue reading]

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