19 Dec 2008

Cecilia Bartoli at the Barbican

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article5365573.ece

Neil Fisher [Times Online, 19 December 2008]

Never underestimate Cecilia Bartoli. If she packs light, she still packs a punch. And if anyone felt short-changed before this sedate-sounding evening of bel-canto salon songs, or, as she called it, a Soirée Rossiniana, they could hardly have complained afterwards.