 German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture. |
| It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me. |
| It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic. |
| It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color. |
| So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift. |
| Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace. |
| Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way. |
| The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors. |
| The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist. |
| Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides. |
| I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera. |
| The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French. |
| People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction. |
| I am a person of the 18th century. |
| The media can be a really strong vehicle. |
| I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome. |
| Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red. |
| The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time. |
| When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple. |
| We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi. |
