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According to Cecilia Bartoli, Maria Malibran was a deep, rich mezzo-soprano, almost a contralto. Bellini reworked I Puritani for her, three tones lower than in the original. Studying the aria “Casta Diva” from Norma, Cecilia Bartoli discovered that most of the aria is marked “pianissimo”. On Maria, Cecilia Bartoli performs 17 songs.