Please tell me I didn't read that Cecilia Bartoli appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic in Mozart's Exultate Jubilate without a conductor. Ach du Lieber.
Among the reasons for my infatuation with La Bartoli was a deep desire for vicarious thrills. For this my heart has chosen well.
I have not forgotten the day in Zurich when she conducted the conductor from the stage of the opera house in the Generalprobe for La Cenerentola. She is self-confident to the point of fearlessness, completely original, creative and often utterly thrilling.
So now she works the tight rope alone without a net, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic with her back. I laugh out loud just thinking about it. I only wish I had been there.
A friend tells me that Cecilia has done this before, that it's all very ho hum for her. What is she going to do to top this? One wonders.
ReplyDeleteI can think of only one reason for this: that one wishes to perform an interpretation for which one can find no compatible conductor.
The other reason would be fun.
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