Cecilia Bartoli has established herself over the course of a magnificent stage career spanning more than 30 years as one of the world’s leading classical musicians. Born in Rome and trained by her mother, the vocal coach Silvana Bazzoni, Cecilia Bartoli was discovered by Daniel Barenboim, Herbert von Karajan, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. She soon began performing with other leading conductors and major orchestras in all the great opera houses and concert halls of North America, Europe, the Far East, and Australia, as well as at renowned festivals. Her artistic signature has become innovative projects dedicated to neglected music, which have resulted in extensive concert tours, best-selling recordings, spectacular stage productions, groundbreaking film formats, and multimedia events. Since 2012, Cecilia Bartoli has been Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival; as of early 2023, she also serves as Director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo – the first woman in the history of the house to hold this position. Also in Monte-Carlo, Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco was founded in 2016 under the patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II and H.R.H. Princess Caroline of Hanover: with this orchestra, which performs on historical instruments, Cecilia Bartoli appears both in Monte-Carlo and on major tours throughout Europe. Milestones in her career include the very first staging of Rossini’s La Cenerentola at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 1997, the legendary Vivaldi album released in 1999, which has sold millions of copies, the Paris concert marathon in 2008 marking the 200th anniversary of Maria Malibran’s birth, her radically new interpretation of Bellini’s Norma in 2013 – which also resulted in a scholarly edition of the reconstructed original score – as well as a celebrated Rossini Week at the Vienna State Opera in 2022. The Cecilia Bartoli – Music Foundation was established as part of her philanthropic work. Among other projects, the foundation created a new label in collaboration with Decca, mentored by Bartoli. Thanks to this initiative, artists such as Javier Camarena and Varduhi Abrahamyan were given the opportunity to record a studio album for the first time. Numerous orders of merit and honorary doctorates, five Grammy Awards, over a dozen ECHO Klassik and BRIT Awards, the Polar Music Prize, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize, the Herbert von Karajan Music Prize, and many other honors underscore Cecilia Bartoli’s significance in the world of culture and music. In this context, Europa Nostra appointed Cecilia Bartoli as its president, a role she assumed in 2022 for an initial five-year term.