If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.

You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.

Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.

Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.