Just in: La Scala replaces Bartoli
mainWe hear that Danielle DeNiese is to replace Bartoli as Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare directed by Robert Carsen at La Scala in October.
Bartoli huffed off after her friend Alexander Pereira was replaced as the company’s sovrintendente.
It’s a house debut for DeNiese. Philippe Jarousky debuts as Sesto, Bejun Mehta sings Cesare.
Let’s hope it’s better than Carsen’s infantile Glyndebourne ‘Rinaldo’?
“And he and the crew
Are on bicycles too
Which they’ve somehow or other invested in…”
I’m lying awake, with a dismal headache….Joking aside, DeNiese may not have the vocal heft (or, apparently, the temperament) of the incomparable Bartoli but she is a wonderful singer/actress in her own right. And a seasoned Handel expert to boot. She will not disappoint.
do you really like the yodeling of La Bartoli? I think it’s unbearable
She won’t be missed at all
You don’t need ‘heft’ for Handel 🙂 You need agility, fioritura, cantabile – and energy. De Niese has sung the (soprano) role of Cleopatra extensively in McVicar’s Glyndebourne production.
Bartoli is a mezzo-soprano.
Vocal heft? Who, Bartoli?
Oh please.
People who attended her live performances say that her voice van be hardly heard beyond the third row.
So happy that I’ll be able to hear something at the Scala.
That’s the only operatic performance I’ve ever left at the interval.
She’s really not in the same league musically — despite her personal charm and sincerity and notwithstanding the recent acclaim for her Cendrillon — because she doesn’t sing accurately.
Losing Cecilia Bartoli, who did a wonderful job with the eight arias of Cleopatra in 2012, is a big loss for La Scala, and dumping Alexander Pereira, the most capable impresario of the last 40 years, was incredibly stupid.
Principals not mentioned include Giovanni Antonini, the conductor; Sara Mingardo, the Cornelia; Christophe Dumaux, the Tolomeo, and Christian Senn, the Achilla — a team assembled by Pereira and Bartoli.
Is she hugging a tree or a mannequin, not that it matters.
Puede ser … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXZVOsrbRME