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

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

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

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.

You need to love what youre doing.

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.

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.