Cecilia Bartoli: Met Debut Interview (1996) - Part 1

[@HungryEars]

Sweet, genuine, and full of life, just like her performances. I hope I can see her perform before i die.

[@geosutube]

She has such a charming personality.

[@Vejur9000]

Her face incredibly expressive. The absolute joy in her face is infectious. Love her.

[@voceangelo]

She's an equally expressive speaker, as she is a singer.

[@oliviasmulyan]

i love you cecilia!

[@roman14032]

she is absolutly the worlds greatest singer, are far as im ccerned that argument is long over

[@WestVoice]

She is amazing :)

[@roman14032]

if i was interviewing her iwould ask " whats it like to start singing with your mom at home at 16 and by 19 be the greatest singer in the world?"

[@SsteinwayS]

@voceangelo Yes she is! As she says, "Everything we want to do with a passion..."

[@janezamudio4940]

Which is why he asked the questions he did. I'm sure the viewer unfamiliar with opera was grateful, as he would have had the same questions.

[@SsteinwayS]

@semicroma And she's still in her twenties here! Very well put together :)

[@nenadmarincic7716]

....( ..ahora entiendo su arte , y , su " misterio...." operistico .. ...Es que , @!.baila -FLAMENCO ! , ( Y si te fijas ....../?? - en Todos los " grandes musicos , artistas ..... tambien ,Cecilia ..... Si ., maravillosa........................... .....

[@tinglesrosyrupeeland]

It's so weird to not hear her voice ringing with passion...

[@SsteinwayS]

@oliviasmulyan Yes you do! And so do I!

[@chanzechaput]

@SsteinwayS and she hasn't aged a day. she's marvelous.

[@SsteinwayS]

@umroo2014 I know! She's always so youthful, especially that laugh! :)

[@oliviasmulyan]

@SsteinwayS im glad!

[@SsteinwayS]

@WestVoice I know, eh! :)

[@SsteinwayS]

What a great question! Now, why can't interviewers ask intelligent questions like THAT?

[@babykin8]

It is isn't it? Why has she never done Carmen?

[@lesthermiranda1794]

She's not a Lyric Mezzo. She's a Light Coloratura Mezzo

[@MeMe-tm8gg]

Fach is really only a part of the total. Even Sopranos have done Carmen. I could see her as a Carmen. I’ve Done Carmen and I’m a coloratura mezzo. Coloratura is not so much a fach. It means agility of runs and intricate passages. My range runs from contralto c2 to soprano d6. What makes me a mezzo is the timbre. I’m mezzo and not contralto because a true contralto has an androgynous timber. Mine is a very warm feminine timber. I’ve heard Cecilia sing an e flat 6 full voice. Definitely not mezzo range! It’s when you hear the honeyed caramel dark timber in the low register that you say wow yes desfinitely mezzo!

[@Tkimba2]

@@MeMe-tm8gg if you sing like Cecilia you're not good

[@milktea4270]

Being American is not what makes this man ignorant about opera; he simply doesn't have an interest for it. Would you expect me to know everything about hip-hop, even though I have no interest in it? Please, don't assume that someone is clueless about something simply because of their nationality. It is really quite juvenile. And by the way, I'm American and have a passion for opera, and singing in general. Maybe us Virginians are different, but your stereotype, sir, has just been proven wrong.

[@sopranosd]

Despina a small role? Did Charlie Rose not bother to watch the opera or read it or, I don't know, talk to someone who knows something about opera? Despina is a major role, and as she says, CENTRAL to the opera. Dang he's a bonehead.

[@SsteinwayS]

Yes, she was a little shy back then! Maybe because her English was not as good then.

[@roman14032]

"a small voice ?....a large voice?' this guys justs mimicing sounds hes heard others make, he has no idea what hes talking about

[@janezamudio4940]

I was agreeing with everything you were saying until you threw in the part about being Virginian----you just resorted to the very stereotyped mentality for which you chastised SsteinwayS. And exactly how was his stereotype proven wrong?

[@babykin8]

Knows alot about bigotry, generalization, racism...and of course, colonization :( Europeans.

[@alexthomas1750]

Wow she sound like a Yankee. I suppose she spent so much time working and living there.

[@daniellevergara6552]

No, she doesn't. The Italian accent is DEFINITELY there.

[@SsteinwayS]

He knows nothing about opera, true. :( Americans!!

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