As la Ceci gets ready to kick off her North American tour, our raging girl crush throbs even harder for the Italian, Malibran-loving mezzo. We've been told that her single 2:00pm show for March 1st, 2009 in Toronto, Canada had sold out *so quickly* that she's spontaneously added an additional show ON THE VERY SAME DAY at 7:00 pm! She'll toss off those gorgeous cadenzas and florid, ringing passages like a mecha-mezzo after, what, a two hour rest? As for the orchestra, we have no doubt that la Scintilla rolls like that.
La Bartoli will be presenting two shows on her stateside tour: the program "Salon Romantique" with Italian pianist Sergio Ciomei -and/or- her program, "La rivoluzione romantica" with Ada Pesch's excellent La Scintilla. The first performance is on February 17 in Orange County, California, and ends on March 3, 2009 in New York's Carnegie Hall.
Ceci's recitals from February 17 through February 25 is her program "Salon Romantique" with Italian pianist Sergio Ciomei, while March 1 & March 3 is her program, "La rivoluzione romantica" with Ada Pesch's excellent La Scintilla.
Here's the line-up of Cecilia Bartoli's North America & Canada Maria Tour:
February 17, 2009___Orange County, CA: "Salon Romantique" w/ Sergio Ciomei
February 19, 2009___Santa Barbara, CA: "Salon Romantique" w/ Sergio Ciomei
February 22, 2009___Berkeley, CA: "Salon Romantique" w/ Sergio Ciomei
February 25, 2009___Vancouver, Canada: "Salon Romantique" w/ Sergio Ciomei
March 1, 2009 (am)__Toronto, Canada: La rivoluzione romantica" w/ La Scintill
March 1, 2009 (pm)__Toronto, Canada: La rivoluzione romantica" w/ La Scintilla
March 3, 2009_______Carnegie Hall, NYC: La rivoluzione romantica" w/ La Scintilla
