Blond(er), bolder, and streamlined, la Cecilia Bartoli gifts the world with her larger-than-life presence again (omg b3wbs), but this time she’ll be battling for the spotlight betwixt a giant red ape and an ugly lime couch.
Opening this Friday night at Opernhaus Zürich is the Swiss première of Jacques Fromental Halévy's Italian-language opera Clari (no he didn't just write la Juive, and no, this isn't Sir Henry Bishop's 1823 opera by the same name), with Cecilia Bartoli singing the title role.
The opera in three acts premiered in 1828 at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris. It was written specifically by Halévy for la Ceci's ghostly crush, the great Maria Malibran, with composition to match her unique vocal stylee. If anyone is up to the job, it's la Ceci. It was the first of only two operas written in Italian for Halévy, with libretto by Pietro Giannone.
The Moshe Leiser/Patrice Caurier production looks insane. Ceci in a Jackie O pillbox hat, a red rubber King Kong monstah, Ceci milking a cow... The opera also stars Austrian soprano Eva Liebau as Bettina and American tenor John Osborn as the Duke. Ceci looks good! Here r the pictures..u make clicky-click, its twice as noice...u wont believe ur @[email protected]!!
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