Cecilia Bartoli cancels her American tour
Cecilia Bartoli has withdrawn from her US Tour “due to unforeseen circumstances”.
The tour was to kick off in six days time from Santa Monica, five concerts in all, taking in Irvine and finishing in Berkeley on 2 April.
The Los Angeles Times reports that organisers Universal Music Arts & Entertainment were “unable to elaborate on the reasons behind the cancellation”. Bartoli has apparently put forward dates for rescheduling in June 2016.
The tour was to be based on music from her Sacrificium CD which won a Grammy in 2009 and is a programme that she has taken all over Europe in the intervening years, though a recouped date in Rome in April 2013 was the last time that she sang the full programme.
Graham Spicer, aka ‘Gramilano’, is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Italian ballerina Carla Fracci.
Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.
He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.
We miss you, Ceci!!!! I’m glad I got to see her at the beginning of her career in a fabulous recital in Chicago and a staged concert version of “Cosi” as Dorabella under the direction of Barenboim.