Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.

My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.

The world is full of many beautiful voices; I will perform with many of them. I love women's voices.

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.