Cecilia Bartoli famous quotes

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

#Opera #Firsts #Composer

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Dream #Together #Way

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Wine #Voice #Giving

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Sea #Feel Good #Singing

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Beautiful #Artist #Magic

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Thinking #Errors #Voice

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Beautiful #Song #Paris

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Thinking #Comedian #Trying

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Musician #Berlin #September

The media can be a really strong vehicle.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Strong #Media #Vehicle

The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Winter #Nightlife #Restaurants

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Opera #Classic #Century

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Teacher #Keys #Vienna

You need to love what youre doing.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Needs

Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Sunshine #Red #Arizona

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Singing #Language #Feels

The joy is actually in the music. It's the music that supports you and tells you what to do. It tells you how to fill the music. You don't have to be shy about feeling the music when you're singing. If you believe in music-the power of music-the music will support you and take you to another dimension.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Music #Believe #Support

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Thinking #Feelings #Fragility

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Simple #Voice #Touching

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Teacher #Years #Voice

The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decide; it's more a question of what you do with the voice, which is the mysterious element. It's the personality behind the voice which makes the artist. The voice is a gift of God, but if you're not able to use this gift, what's left? Nothing but a beautiful voice, without nuance or colour.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Beautiful #Artist #Voice

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Share

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#School #Rome

I am a person of the 18th century.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Century #18th Century #Persons

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Interesting #Joy #Collaboration

So you see, movies are really another dimension.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Dimensions

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Order #Talking #Voice

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Character #Men #People

Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Voice #Boss #Owners

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Nice #Color #Voice

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Inspiration #Important #World

It's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Culture #Difficult #Take Time

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.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Thinking #Important #Vivaldi