Cecilia Bartoli, "unarguably the most exciting and original classical singer in the world today"

Rupert Christiansen, that smartypants, cranks out a weirdly sweet Valentine to La Ceci in the Daily Telegraph.

(Obviously he sometimes wants, and we quote, "to smack her", because he never went shoe shopping with her, and that makes him angry).

Anyway, we join him in a triple yay for La Ceci.