Roderick Williams
“Shall we say that, if we want crisis and disaster and despair mix, we can just turn on the evening news. If we want something that’s beautiful, that’s stirring and positive, then there is a place in art for that positivity. “
Christian Gerhaher
“This is the very interesting thing for me as a lieder singer that I don’t have to be concrete, I don’t have to be narrative, I don’t have to be an actor on stage when I sing lieder, but I am a kind of medium of lyricism of abstract art. “
Ludovic Tézier
“Once you’re free, you can exist on stage physically, vocally, and with your soul too. That’s what makes a Verdi singer by excellence and a Verdi baritone.”
Matthias Goerne
“I think the rhythm is everything, it’s what you have to keep in mind. For interpretation of an entire piece, it is the most important, even when the sound is sometimes not so much under control, it’s the inner rhythm and the rhythm inside the piece. “
Lawrence Brownlee
“When you think about jazz, the real pioneers of jazz were people of color, and so a lot of people think our great legacy is there. But no, we do have it in classical music, and we want to open up this discussion, so people understand and will come out and support us in classical music as well.”
Stuart Skelton
“I think it’s always nice to those beautiful, miraculous, and sensitive, and introspective moments that Wagner gives you, rather than just run like a bull at a gate, as we’d say in Australia, to find those bits where you get to deploy that power. “
Michael Spyres
“It’s a very interesting category that very few people have continued the tradition. The baritenor was really the last vestige of the old style of singing that was started in the Baroque era.”
Joseph Calleja
“It is a very complex opera in terms of melody but also dramatically. I’m very proud of this project, I was able to sing all these crazy music as Bellini wrote it, and it’s really great that it is there for the history of the opera.”
Javier Camarena
“It is a very complex opera in terms of melody but also dramatically. I’m very proud of this project, I was able to sing all these crazy music as Bellini wrote it, and it’s really great that it is there for the history of the opera.”
Nicky Spence
“It’s a lot to do with human interest, and the fact that these composers have stories to tell from their own point of view, which I think is very much condensed within their music. There’s something about the misery of my Celtic history which tends to resonate with composers like Janáček and other countries who have had a similar kind of exile feeling.”
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