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Opera Proibita | 
 enlarge | Creators: Nils Wieboldt, Antonio Caldara, George Frederick Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti, Marc Minkowski, Sebastien Marq, Eric Bellocq, Yasunori Imamura, Jory Vinikour, Sebastian D'herin, Cecilia Bartoli, Yann Miriel, Les Musiciens Du Louvre - Grenoble
Label: Decca Classics
Category: Music
List Price: $21.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 434163
Format: Import, Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.2
UPC: 028947569244
EAN: 0028947569244
ASIN: B0009YSGDA
Release Date: September 12, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | All'arme si accessi guerrieri | | • | Mentre io godo in dolce oblio | | • | Un pensiero nemico di pace | | • | Vanne pentita a piangere | | • | Sparga il senso lascivo veleno | | • | Caldo sangue | | • | Come nembo che fugge col vento | | • | Ecco negl'orti tuoi... Che dolce simpatia | | • | Qui resta... L'alta Roma | | • | Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa | | • | Ahi! aual cordoglio... Doppio affetto | | • | Si piangete pupille dolente | | • | Ahi quanto cieca... Come foco alla sua sfera | | • | Disserratevi, o porte d'Averno | | • | Notte funesta... Ferma l'ali |
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Amazon.com
Cecilia Bartoli's new CD features a collection of music that could not be heard in her native Rome at the start of the 18th century due to Papal censorship. Theaters, the Church felt, were places of evil and corruption and operas led people to immorality. But some music-loving senior members of the priesthood asked composers to write oratorios and cantatas--indeed, operas without staging, essentially--for their own private entertainment. Call it what you will, the music is sensational--by turns virtuosic, gentle, and playful--and always expressive: just right, it seems, for Cecilia Bartoli's temperament. The opening aria on the CD, a call for peace in the name of Jesus, is, in fact, a dazzling martial air with trumpets blaring and the voice going through an amazing array of coloratura fireworks. It shows Bartoli at her most aggressive. The listener is practically hurled back from the speakers when she begins, with rapid-fire runs and trills and cascades of notes, all perfectly in place. Showy arias are offset by several tender ones ("Lascia la spina" from Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno returns in the composer's Rinaldo, four years later, as the now-famous "Lascia ch'io pianga"), and Bartoli exhibits again, her many, many levels of pianissimo and sensitive phrasing. Marc Minkowski and his Musiciens are just right for this repertoire and back Bartoli up superbly. This is a fascinating project, rivetingly performed and presented. --Robert Levine
Album Description
Limited Australian pressing. An extraordinary album of dramatic arias written in Rome at a time when opera performance was forbidden by the Church, and female singers were forbidden from singing in public. Decca. 2005.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
 Spicy and Sweet! July 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One can't help but be impressed with the agility in Bartoli's voice. Vocal fireworks! And yet the "Mentre io godo...", "Caldo sangue" and "Lascia la spina..." are so sweet and calming. I consider this CD a must have!
Great voice great music January 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
IF you like this type of music and this type of voice, it is a unique compilation. Bartoli sings - as usual - simply perfect. Highly recommended
Cecilia at her best! August 26, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
when I started collecting Bartoli's album I first got "A Portrait", which is great for the Bartoli beginner. You can hear how she started and progressed through Mozart and Donizetti. However, I believe that she shines when it comes to baroque music. She is great Rossini singer but her passion really comes through in Baroque music and on this album. From the vocal fireworks to the passionate pianissimos, this is an album to show that pre-classical music is wonderful to listen to. Minkowski wonderfully backs her up. If I may say, another album to hear his group is on "Anne Sofie Von Otter sings Offenbach." However back to Opera Proibita, this is a great album to appreciate Bartoli's flexibility and musicality.
 Only one diva, only Bartoli. June 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just like Farinelli was the opera phenomenon of his time, fast-forward to the 21st century, Bartoli gives once again this music of the Italian settecento a breath of new life in all its splendor and glory.
In Opera Proibita, Bartoli's repertoire not only reflects on her as a consummate vocal artist but also as the ultimate scholar. Rarely an opera singer would dig this dip and go that far to unearth great scores from total obscurity. Even more uncommonly a singer would take the challenge of singing these arias without the risk of ridiculing herself, but to the contrary establishing a new record and precedent.
Her execution of the Handel arias is truly astonishing in coloratura and melismas probably not heard for three hundred years when only the best castrati commanded the virtuosity to tackle these arias. Also surprising and refreshing was to hear works by Handel that show his wild side.
Bartoli brings this album to a high climax with the arias from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. This is really her realm and true medium. Her vocal runs in "Un pensiero nemico di face" sound like a first violin, and as if this was not difficult enough she ornaments the da capo melismas in tempo from allegro to presto molto vivace, and transitions into a note crescendo with great ease and certainty. Wonderful!
Amazing disc March 3, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This disc has all the elements needed for an amazing disc. The conductor, orchestra, and music are all top notch. Bartoli's singing is amazing. I find this album energizing and a testament to how exciting baroque music can be. However, if you don't like Bartoli's voice in previous recordings, you probably won't change your opinion because of this disc.
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