Superstar diva Cecilia Bartoli has just signed on for six more years as Artistic Director of the Salzburger Festspiele Pfingsten (the Salzburg Whitsun Festival).

With Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco, she goes on a new european tour to perform Farinelli and his composers arias in Vienna, Versailles, Toulouse, Barcelona and Hamburg.

Photo : Cecilia Bartoli © Uli Weber / Decca