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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.
She has sung no more than a handful of operatic roles onstage, mostly Mozart and Rossini, and she has made a specialty of the songs that kept Rossini busy after his opera-composing career had ended.
Most famous of the high temples of this art is, of course, Milan’s La Scala (see page 151), showcasing the works of Verdi, Bellini, Rossini, Puccini, and others.
Her new CD, An Italian Songbook , for instance, opens with one of dozens of settings Rossini made of two short verses by the 18 th -century poet Pietro Metastasio, "Mi lagnerò tacendo" ("I will complain silently").
If La Cenerentola --Rossini's version of the Cinderella story--has made it to the Met for the first time in the company's history, it is only because Bartoli brought it there.
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