I was surprised to learn that Gluck spent some months in Prague at the time when we know operas by Vivaldi were being performed there. |
I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome. |
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century. |
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 like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important. |
It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color. |
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 very difficult, because also at the end of the opera, so I have to try to keep energy, the energy and the freshness of the voice until the end, so-it's really a big lesson that Rossini wanted to give to every singer, to every mezzo, yes. |
It's very special historic time, and there was a lot of change made in 18th century. |
Just to have the impression that this comes naturally is just one way from the diaphragm I mean, until up to the throat and then outside... .and then you have to do this with every note. |
Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension. |
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. |
Performing this music here, where he was born, in a way you feel 'Oh, this is what Mozart saw, this is what Mozart was breathing; the air, the atmosphere'. |
Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert. |
So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift. |