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

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.

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.

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

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

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

You need to love what youre doing.