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The Sopranos

Ruby Hughes
Ruby Hughes
"I think composers are feeling much more free, and they take inspiration from other fields, not only...
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Dawn Upshaw
"I think composers are feeling much more free, and they take inspiration from other fields, not only...
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Aleksandra Kurzak
“It was 1999, on the 26th of May, which is the Mother's Day in Poland. So it was an incredible gift,...
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"What makes you think it's very good music also, is that it's only hits, and when you listen to this...
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Véronique Gens
"What makes you think it's very good music also, is that it's only hits, and when you listen to this...
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Anne Sofie von Otter
"I think composers are feeling much more free, and they take inspiration from other fields, not only...
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Sharleen Joynt
"What makes you think it's very good music also, is that it's only hits, and when you listen to this...
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Edita Gruberova
Edita Gruberova
"I think composers are feeling much more free, and they take inspiration from other fields, not only...
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The Mezzo-sopranos

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Joyce DiDonato
“Giving these men the chance, a therapeutic kind of chance, to really express who they are at a core...
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Kate Lindsey
“We, humanity, have a tendency to sort of relive, rehash, reexplore things again and again. We sort of...
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Ekaterina Semenchuk
“It's incredible, it’s the quintessence of the vision of the poetry and the sound of the music, let's...
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Elīna Garanča
"I think composers are feeling much more free, and they take inspiration from other fields, not only...
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The Countertenors

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Andreas Scholl
"The countertenor voice transcends the male and the female voice. It stands for the next higher level...
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Michael Chance
"It's very interesting to know how it started. We hear it all the time in pop music. From The Beach Boys,...
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Iestyn Davies
Iestyn Davies
"I call it a setlist, because I think we're quite used nowadays to streaming platforms to put together...
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Jakub Józef Orliński
"In break-dancing, nobody can tell you that something is right or wrong. You listen to the music and...
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The Tenors

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Lawrence Brownlee
"When you think about jazz, the real pioneers of jazz were people of color, and so a lot of people think...
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Stuart Skelton
"I think it's always nice to those beautiful, miraculous, and sensitive, and introspective moments that...
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Michael Spyres
"It's a very interesting category that very few people have continued the tradition. The baritenor was...
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Joseph Calleja
"It is a very complex opera in terms of melody but also dramatically. I'm very proud of this project,...
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Javier Camarena
"It is a very complex opera in terms of melody but also dramatically. I'm very proud of this project,...
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Nicky Spence
"It's a lot to do with human interest, and the fact that these composers have stories to tell from their...
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Ian Bostridge
"I think it's important sometimes that when we listen to this music being sung that we forget it just...
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Roberto Alagna
"For me, everything was impossible, everything was too difficult. And I remember having the critics against...
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Piotr Beczała
"When we don't develop as singers, we go back. And this is kind of a philosophy that we have to permanently...
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Michael Fabiano
"If I just carried out a safe life, there's a case to be made for some great singers that only did the...
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The Baritones

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Roderick Williams
"Shall we say that, if we want crisis and disaster and despair mix, we can just turn on the evening news....
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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...
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Ludovic Tézier
"Once you're free, you can exist on stage physically, vocally, and with your soul too. That's what makes...
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Matthias Goerne
"I think the rhythm is everything, it’s what you have to keep in mind. For interpretation of an entire...
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The Basses

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Ildebrando D’Archangelo
"The wonderful thing of Leporello is the comedy. And this is the only character in the opera who has...
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Laurent Naouri
"I use what I know of one field in the other field, and vice versa. I try to use what I know in every...
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Günther Groissböck
"I would say it's a sort of a ping pong game where you play both sides, and I wouldn't put it in boxes....
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Thomas Quasthoff
"All the art forms that has to do with singing have a message. There’s always a message that you have...
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The ensembles

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The King’s Singers
"The important thing is to treat each side of music in its own terms, or on its own terms. You don't...
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Eleanor Harries Clarke (Founding Member of Stile Antico)
"I think composers are feeling much more free, and they take inspiration from other fields, not only...
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The Composers

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Missy Mazzoli
"My whole career is built on finding the light in the darkness and presenting them right next to each...
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Thomas Adès
"I love the idea of this relationship (Lola and The Fairy Prince) being central to this opera that sort...
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David Hertzberg
"I love the idea of this relationship (Lola and The Fairy Prince) being central to this opera that sort...
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The Directors

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Sir David Pountney
"I think you can't interpret something unless you're prepared to get your hands dirty. Many people think...
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Cerise Lim Jacobs
"I don't consider myself to be just a librettist in the sense of most librettist working in contemporary...
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Peter Katona
"It's a huge weight of responsibility if one wants to encourage the right people to do this kind of job....
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Carolyn Choa
"His (Kawabata) works have been called works of emptiness, and himself, a master of the unsaid thing....
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Lionel Meunier
"I tried to build a group around singers that were able to sing any solo requested in the music we perform,...
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The Conductors

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Harry Bicket
"I think that another issue is that the subjects that Handel writes about, although on the face of it,...
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Sir Mark Elder
"Verdi is still the composer who has more operas in front of the public than any other. He still rules...
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Justin Doyle
"Music is a continuum, and I think what's important is that we take the lessons we learn from period...
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Nathalie Stutzmann
"For me, it's very important to feel my voice is just an instrument that i use to make music. When i...
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Edward Gardner
"I find connecting with an audience is one of the great fundamentals of my job, and it frustrates me...
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Manfred Honeck
"There are no singers and no lyrics. But I found out that the music is so strong that you can actually...
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Paul McCreesh
"I think if you're really serious about music, you should be constantly working on sources. You should...
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Robert Simpson
"Choral music, or music in my estimation, must speak directly to the soul, to the individual, and become...
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Kazushi Ono
"Our responsibility is choosing the proper titles of the opera, and also choosing the adequate stage...
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Jaap van Zweden
"We have to understand as parents, that we feed our children every day, and that's very good, but we...
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