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.

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

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

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

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

I am a person of the 18th century.