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Cecilia Bartoli recital fantastic

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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20040217
Author:Stephanie von Buchau, CONTRIBUTOR

THERE is a wonderful sequence in E.M. Forster's "Where Angels Fear to Tread," in which a trio of uptight Brits attends an Italian performance of "Lucia di Lammermoor" and are appalled at the audience applauding during the music, yelling encouragement at the soprano and even passing her love notes.

That is not the way we do things in Anglo Saxon countries, but at Cecilia Bartoli's recital Sunday afternoon at Zellerbach Hall, most of the Berkeley audience may as well have been in Parma. I didn't see any love notes passed, but ecstasy overcame decorum.

It starts with Bartoli herself. The Roman ...

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