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• So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

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• I am a person of the 18th century.

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• The media can be a really strong vehicle.

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• I think, first of all, you need to love what you’re doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you’re doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course.

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• I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It’s important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

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• 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.

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• 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.

   

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• It’s nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.

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• 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.

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• The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

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• The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It’s like a good red wine Give it time.

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• 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.

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• So you see, movies are really another dimension.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

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• I did a concert… in September with the Berlin Philharmonic… They’re great musicians, and there’s always something to learn from them.

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• It’s such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

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• 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.

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• We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

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Cecilia Bartoli (29)

Birth:	4th June, 1966
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Actress, Producer, Singer, Musician

About

Cecilia Bartoli was born in Rome, Italy. She is an Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer, recitalist, actress, musician and film producer. She is best known for her interpretations of the music of Mozart and Rossini, as well as for her performances of lesser-known Baroque and classical music. She is known for having the versatility to sing soprano and mezzo roles. Her first public performance was at age eight as the shepherd boy in Tosca. She made her professional opera début in 1987 at the Arena di Verona. In 2011, Bartoli won a fifth Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance for Sacrificium. In 2012 she was voted into the magazine's Gramophone's Hall of Fame. She is a 2012 recipient of the Herbert von Karajan Music Prize.

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