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She has championed the music of Pauline Viardot-Garcia, herself a Rossini mezzo-soprano in the 19 th century, and led a campaign to rehabilitate Haydn's almost-mythological cantata Arianna a Naxos and his virtually unknown opera Orfeo ed Euridice . One reason she can get away with this is that she is a dazzlingly expressive singer, guiding the listener through the emotional landscape of a piece with every small push of her voice.
Connoisseurs of singing rarely hold moderate opinions, and there is hardly a singer who elicits more adulation and disapproval at the same time than mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, who opens Oct. 16 in a new, made-to-order production of Rossini's La Cenerentola at the Metropolitan Opera.