Halevy: Clari / Cecilia Bartoli, Adam Fischer

Cecilia Bartoli: Clari, John Osborn: The Duke, Eva Liebau: Bettina, Olivier Widmer: Germano, Carlos Chausson: Alberto, Orchestra la Scintilla, Adam Fischer

Halévy: Clari

Maria Malibran, like Pauline Viardot, was a daughter of the influential vocal pedagogue, Manuel García. In Halévy’s obscure Clari, composed for Malibran in 1828, Cecilia Bartoli, in whose vocal “footprint” she follows like a third Garcia sister born into another time, revives a work that dazzles like she does.
This first recording may resurrect Clari onto the stages of the world, since this captivating tragicomedy’s beauties are floral, but unfading, in their allure. The story – an innocent suspected of infidelity by her fiancé – is familiar, but the score is wondrous treasure.
Bartoli’s Zürich Clari won unanimous hosannas. “We must bow down to la Ceci for locating this morsel . . . it requires a mezzo of superhuman abilities and three good octaves.” (Intermezzo).
Zürich Opera’s period instrument band La Scintilla contributes stylish support under Adam Fischer.

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