After fiddling around with clues for the Mission 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 Youtube. The clip shows scenes in and around the recording studio, while we […]
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Bartoli’s back on the treasure trail with her Norma video
After offering clues taken from ‘webisodes’ filmed during the recording of Cecilia Bartoli’s cd Mission, 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 […]
Cecilia Bartoli on her voice, her repertoire, on turning down Carmen and facing up to Norma
Cecilia Bartoli’s been busy: not only getting ready for her new tour featuring the extraordinarily difficult arias by Agostino Steffani that are featured on her new CD Mission, but also doing the promotional rounds with radio, television and newspaper interviews. The content is mostly the same – why Steffani? who was he? – but it […]
Cats are flying out of bags as the secrets of Bartoli’s new album come to light
It is suitably apt that moles, defectors and double agents have been lurking waiting to destabilise Decca’s secret project. So the new Cecilia Bartoli album, Mission, will be released on October 2. The tracklist is as follows: 1. “Schiere invitte, non tardate” (da Alarico il Baltha) 2. “Ogni core può sperar” (da Servio Tullio) 3. “Ove son? Chi […]
Mission news: Jaroussky will join Bartoli on her new recording, a new crime novel tie-in, and a DVD filmed at Versailles
While Decca keep us guessing at the content of Mission, Cecilia Bartoli’s new album, their press release gives out a lot of information already: Autumn 2012 marks the release of Mission, a sensational new album from the world’s best-selling classical artist, Cecilia Bartoli, and a project with international politics, religious conflict, diplomatic secrecy, spying and […]
We’re on a mission… with Cecilia Bartoli. Part 3
With the third ‘clue’ at the end of the new Cecilia Bartoli Youtube video we are rewarded with a (gorgeous) 90 second clip of “Ogni core può sperar”, an aria from Agostino Steffani’s opera Servio Tullio. So we certainly guessed correctly in the last update. However, is Mission an album of arias by Steffani, or is he one of the composers […]
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 […]
