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Out from the moans and grawings over the current famine of star-quality classical singers, there emerges a throughly beguiling and breathkingly talent knows as CECILIA BARTOLI. Few classical singers have become famous as rapidly as Cecilia Bartoli. Still only at 30, Cecilia is beloved by millions for her charismatic personality, her beautiful voice, her most special gifts in concerts: the spiritual communication of ecstasy exchanged between singer and her audience... She possesses one of the finest voice around: a coloratura mezzo with Olympian flexibility and three-and-a-half octave range who have a ringing lower register, a resonant middle, and a soaring upper tassitura, all balanced by musicianship and poise that belie her age. She has a vocal talent combined with a palpable joy in singing and straight-to-the-heart directness. An article in the San Fransisco Chronicle describes her life's fairy-tale of success: "She is the No. 1 voice to have emerged in the 90's. She will be a reigning mezzo soprano well into the next century. The double decade and more belong to Bartoli".
What Bartoli has done is unbelievable. Her meteoric rise to super-stardom in a scant eight years has defied tradition.
As the world-wide recordwoman of sale classical albums, the name of Cecilia Bartoli is constantly among the top 15 best selling classical albums on the Billboard Charts in North America. Among her glorious exploits, all of her lastest solo recordings have been the best-seller chart and at one time during 1993 she had five of her solo recordings simultaneously among the top fifteen on the US Billboard Charts (with ARIE ANTICHE album in the number one spot for weeks on end). With this success, she was recognised by the unique distinction of being named both Billboard's "Artist of the Year" and "Top Selling Classical Artist". Most recently, her album called A PORTRAIT has been more than one year in the top fifteen selling classical albums on the Billboard Charts. AND MORE... Since SEVEN weeks, her album of MOZART ARIAS (Erato) pursues his rising on this chart and this week this album comes on the ELEVENTEEN position. But la dolce Bartoli hasn't stopped her lighting career. In fact, even if her most album of French Melodies called CHANT D'AMOUR is internationaly on sale since October 15th, this week this album is noticed as one enters in the Billboards Charts and comes on the SECOND position. I bet you it's going across the glory. Another award-winning recording for Cecilia??? I am sure!!! CONGRADULATIONS CECILIA, your success earns those praise and I deserved to you my passoniate bravos!!! Your impressive entrance on the SECOND position on the best selling classical albums is grand and phenomenal. You are the real star of this disc: more passion, more touching sensivity one could scarely ask.
Those sales are a tangible proof that Cecilia Bartoli is asserting herself as the most firm talent singer of our time.
Considering that the Billboard Charts gives only the Top 15 best selling classical albums every two weeks, we are now waiting to the November 14th to see the follow-up to her exploits...
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CHANT D'AMOUR is already among the Top Selling Classical Albums on the Billboard Charts in the North America 
New position of CHANT D'AMOUR
by Claire Picard, 1997, Apr 02
