Words matter. These are the best Cecilia Bartoli Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
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.
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.
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.
I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
It’s nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.
The media can be a really strong vehicle.
When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.
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.
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.
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.
Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
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.
It’s like when you want to make a house… the technique is very important.
The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don’t really have a nightlife in the winter time.
I am a person of the 18th century.
