Bartoli returns to La Scala for 3-year Baroque project

MILAN - Mezzosoprano Cecilia Bartoli is returning to Milan's famed La Scala opera house for a three-year Baroque music collaboration.

Bartoli told the AP Thursday that baroque music has been "somewhat forgotten in Italy. We live in Baroque cities. We breathe Baroque in Italy. For this I say it is interesting to bring back to light compositions and authors of Baroque operas."

She called Baroque music Italy's "treasure, our immense treasure."

The Baroque program begins in 2019 with Handel's "Giulio Cesare in Egitto," followed by his "Semele" in 2020 and "Ariodante" in 2021. La Scala general manager Alexander Pereira says he wants to bring the three productions to other Italian opera houses.

Bartoli sang several times at La Scala in the 1990s; her last appearance was in 2012.

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