Cecilia Bartoli devoted last year’s season to the memory and rediscovery of the first diva in music history, Maria Malibran who was born two hundred year ago. On Malibran’s birthday March 24th 2008, Bartoli gave three concerts at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the city where Malibran was born and where she enjoyed her first success, as part of the “Malibran Marathon”. Other leading musicians taking part included Lang Lang, Vadim Repin, Ádám Fischer and Myung-Whun Chung. Later, she took the title part at the Zurich Opera in a production of Clari, a now forgotten work by Halévy that was written in 1829 for Malibran to perform. This was later released on a CD called Maria and featured Ádám Fischer conducting the Orchestra La Scintilla of the Zurich Opera. The backbone of the programme is formed by material from the album: works by Persiani, Mendelssohn, Rossini, Donizetti, Bériot, Balfe and Hummel. In between accounts of Maria Malibran’s most successful performance pieces, we will hear compositions by her father Manuel García and also those by Malibran herself who lived to be only twenty-eight. Contemporary descriptions of Malibran are no less apt for Cecilia Bartoli. “Wherever this woman with the svelte figure, big eyes and long dark hair appeared, she created an atmosphere and an outburst of emotion that plunged the cultivated society of Europe and America into an unprecedented frenzy.”
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