Cecilia Bartoli Quotes

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Cecilia Bartoli

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 4, 1966

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

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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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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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Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.

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I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

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It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

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

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

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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.

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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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So you see, movies are really another dimension.

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

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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.

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

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