Bartoli is considered a coloratura mezzo-soprano with an unusual timbre. She is one of the most popular (and one of the top-selling) opera singers of recent years.[1]
This can maybe be expanded more. While stating that her voice is "unusual" is accurate, it does not describe what that means to a non musician and someone who doesnt know her music. It also fails to acknowledge her important parts of her youth and her years growing post Conservatory Santa Cecilia.
[edit] In 2012 Bartoli became the artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, an extension of the traditional Salzburg Festival, which produces performances during Whitsun (Pentecost) weekend. Forgoing the academic programming of her predecessors, she reformulated the festival's programming—returning to "the old recipe of organizing beautiful programs and inviting great artists"—resulting in record ticket sales and placing the festival on the international opera calendar. In 2012, she sang Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare, in 2013 the title role in Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, and in 2014 Rossini's La Cenerentola.[7]
Bartoli was also the first female director in Salzburg.
In 2012 Bartoli became the artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, an extension of the traditional Salzburg Festival, which produces performances during Whitsun (Pentecost) weekend. Forgoing the academic programming of her predecessors, she reformulated the festival's programming—returning to "the old recipe of organizing beautiful programs and inviting great artists"—resulting in record ticket sales and placing the festival on the international opera calendar. In 2012, she sang Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare, in 2013 the title role in Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, and in 2014 Rossini's La Cenerentola.[7]
Failed to mention that the production of West Side Story in 2016 was their biggest success with her as artistic director.
Bartoli lives with her husband, the Swiss baritone Oliver Widmer, on the Goldküste shore of Lake Zurich, Switzerland, and in Rome, part of the year. The couple married in 2011 after 12 years together.[11] Bartoli lived in Monaco in the early 2010s.[12]
Switch the order of this paragraph. This should somewhat follow chronological order and begin with her years in Monaco. Then move to her marriage and currently dwelling.