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


Cecilia Bartoli

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CECILIA BARTOLI I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The ...
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI The end of all good music is to affect the soul
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI One imagines that he might have understood the supreme value of Bach's vocal works - not primarily a...
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER 'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a st...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.
JOSH LANYON I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
RICHARD STRAUSS The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
NELLIE MELBA Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it conta...
CARLISLE FLOYD Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE Everything was settled before the game started. I'm glad it was a nice clean game out there. We're n...
JOSE VIDRO I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera ...
ROBERT ASHLEY Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI When I first started [at Loyola], everything was free,
JENNY THOMPSON Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone ...
BILL LASWELL When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what m...
CECILIA BARTOLI Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
CECILIA BARTOLI The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give...
CECILIA BARTOLI Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.
CECILIA BARTOLI "The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decid...
CECILIA BARTOLI The beginning of the 19th century in Germany and Vienna was a new era with German composers writing ...
CECILIA BARTOLI Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy...
CECILIA BARTOLI Actually, I would love to do some Handel operas. The oratorios are also beautiful. I would love to d...
CECILIA BARTOLI I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's very special historic time, and there was a lot of change made in 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI You have different directors, and as a singer you have to be an actress too. It's a fusion-make sing...
CECILIA BARTOLI Sometimes I can have a desire to do this and that, but my voice-it likes to go straight.
CECILIA BARTOLI I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's...
CECILIA BARTOLI I don't want to say the career is my prince, because I want a real prince. I feel it's a little like...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building...
CECILIA BARTOLI I was surprised to learn that Gluck spent some months in Prague at the time when we know operas by V...
CECILIA BARTOLI The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive ...
CECILIA BARTOLI I think at least God said hello to me. I was lucky, lucky to have the voice, but also lucky to have ...
CECILIA BARTOLI When I suggested a Vivaldi disc [in the late 90s], it was difficult to convince them to do it. But i...
CECILIA BARTOLI I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
CECILIA BARTOLI The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That f...
CECILIA BARTOLI When you are accompanied by the instrument-on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice-you hav...
CECILIA BARTOLI I like jazz of course, but jazz is almost classic. I like some Italian pop music. When I was a teena...
CECILIA BARTOLI Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what...
CECILIA BARTOLI You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.
CECILIA BARTOLI Just to have the impression that this comes naturally is just one way from the diaphragm I mean, unt...
CECILIA BARTOLI I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for i...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and buil...
CECILIA BARTOLI I am a person of the 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI
"The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who ...
CECILIA BARTOLI The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.
CECILIA BARTOLI The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the mo...
CECILIA BARTOLI I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and the...
CECILIA BARTOLI German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Swi...
CECILIA BARTOLI The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine ...
CECILIA BARTOLI I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian f...
CECILIA BARTOLI I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle....
CECILIA BARTOLI So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.
CECILIA BARTOLI I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
CECILIA BARTOLI The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in...
CECILIA BARTOLI Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
CECILIA BARTOLI Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With ...
CECILIA BARTOLI People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It w...
CECILIA BARTOLI Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when ...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.
CECILIA BARTOLI So you see, movies are really another dimension.
CECILIA BARTOLI It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.
CECILIA BARTOLI Close your eyes and let music set you free.
CHARLES HART I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor w...
DONNA LEON The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locke...
BARNEY ROSS I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.
EMMY ROSSUM I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.

Remember this.
CECELIA AHERN I really felt, before we started this album, that there was unfinished business,
DEPECHE MODE It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a litt...
GISELE BUNDCHEN We let the dogs hit the debris piles first to see if they had any interest. The amazing thing was to...
DR. LIBBY CHAR Before you started there was a beginning.
LATOYA J. STEPHENS This is how you create breakthroughs, bringing a range of eclectic people together. A composer is wo...
FRANK MOSS Before Everything Happens, 
We Must First Begin.
DRAGOS BRATASANU There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead
ARTHUR HONEGGER There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
ARTHUR HONEGGER One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the fi...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond sou...
CARTER BURWELL In the beginning there was (some nervousness) because of the fact that you're playing in a final, bu...
KATE MILLER Before the year started the question was with our pitching. Everybody said we had a killer lineup co...
JAMIE SIMINSKI You must expect to make enemies."
"I never expect to make anything else," he said.
SUSAN KAY Is the mask magic?" he demanded with sudden, passionate interest.
"Yes." I bowed my head, so th...
SUSAN KAY It broke his heart because she started to consider that her home. But on the other hand he knew she ...
ELEANOR POPPELL Before practices started I didn't really know how good of a team we were going to have. But first da...
EVAN JUMPER We started the first half tonight with that same muddy approach. We were lethargic and didn't have m...
RAY ALLEN My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace ...
SUSAN KAY If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL There are risks in someone who believes that the peace process started the day he was elected prime ...
AKIVA ELDAR It started somewhere from there.
DEYTH BANGER This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my...
GENE LUEN YANG I don't know what you think of me. And you certainly would never picture us together. But probably p...
JODI PICOULT we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we...
MATHIEU KASSOVITZ I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher k...
MEGAN HILTY One of the biggest things he helped me with was cutting down the number of steps I take before relea...
CARLY STRAMA When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic charact...
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When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what m...
CECILIA BARTOLI I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as th...
CECILIA BARTOLI Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
CECILIA BARTOLI The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give...
CECILIA BARTOLI Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.
CECILIA BARTOLI "The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decid...
CECILIA BARTOLI The beginning of the 19th century in Germany and Vienna was a new era with German composers writing ...
CECILIA BARTOLI Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy...
CECILIA BARTOLI Actually, I would love to do some Handel operas. The oratorios are also beautiful. I would love to d...
CECILIA BARTOLI I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's very special historic time, and there was a lot of change made in 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI You have different directors, and as a singer you have to be an actress too. It's a fusion-make sing...
CECILIA BARTOLI Sometimes I can have a desire to do this and that, but my voice-it likes to go straight.
CECILIA BARTOLI I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's...
CECILIA BARTOLI I don't want to say the career is my prince, because I want a real prince. I feel it's a little like...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building...
CECILIA BARTOLI I was surprised to learn that Gluck spent some months in Prague at the time when we know operas by V...
CECILIA BARTOLI The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive ...
CECILIA BARTOLI I think at least God said hello to me. I was lucky, lucky to have the voice, but also lucky to have ...
CECILIA BARTOLI When I suggested a Vivaldi disc [in the late 90s], it was difficult to convince them to do it. But i...
CECILIA BARTOLI I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
CECILIA BARTOLI The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That f...
CECILIA BARTOLI When you are accompanied by the instrument-on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice-you hav...
CECILIA BARTOLI I like jazz of course, but jazz is almost classic. I like some Italian pop music. When I was a teena...
CECILIA BARTOLI Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what...
CECILIA BARTOLI You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.
CECILIA BARTOLI Just to have the impression that this comes naturally is just one way from the diaphragm I mean, unt...
CECILIA BARTOLI I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for i...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and buil...
CECILIA BARTOLI I am a person of the 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI
"The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who ...
CECILIA BARTOLI The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.
CECILIA BARTOLI The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the mo...
CECILIA BARTOLI I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and the...
CECILIA BARTOLI German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Swi...
CECILIA BARTOLI The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine ...
CECILIA BARTOLI I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian f...
CECILIA BARTOLI I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle....
CECILIA BARTOLI So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.
CECILIA BARTOLI I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
CECILIA BARTOLI The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in...
CECILIA BARTOLI Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
CECILIA BARTOLI Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With ...
CECILIA BARTOLI People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It w...
CECILIA BARTOLI Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when ...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.
CECILIA BARTOLI So you see, movies are really another dimension.
CECILIA BARTOLI It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.
CECILIA BARTOLI I think if people ask, 'How is Marion Bartoli?', they will always respond, 'She's a ...
MARION BARTOLI We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.
CECILIA ZALKIND On average, our students score higher on national achievement tests, they are more likely to attend ...
CECILIA ZALKIND We certainly support his nomination. I think he's a great choice.
CECILIA ZALKIND While these southern counties do have some small cities, a lot of the poverty that infects child wel...
CECILIA ZALKIND It's frustrating to know we have this incredible opportunity for kids [that] we're already beginning...
CECILIA ZALKIND Over half a million children live in families that struggle to pay the rent and put food on the tabl...
CECILIA ZALKIND This survey tells us that candidates who support pre-K have a better chance of winning at the polls.
CECILIA ZALKIND I think there was a sense that children's services needed to be a greater priority and that organizi...
CECILIA ZALKIND I'm so proud of him it's unbelievable.
CECILIA RODHE This is a dream come true for him. We're so proud.
CECILIA RODHE I wouldn't miss it for the world.
CECILIA RODHE When you are in a team situation, it's never comfortable. Everybody has to put energy in what's happ...
CECILIA RODHE It's a wonderful decision. I applaud all of them.
CECILIA RODHE He likes to share his energy. That has always been his way of communicating. He's in a very protecte...
CECILIA RODHE I'm not sure anybody totally understands this phenomenon. ... But we are happily stunned.
CECILIA MUNOZ It is a bill that has driven more than a million people out this week.
CECILIA MUNOZ The outpouring of anger in the community is combined with the hope that the Senate will do better.
CECILIA MUNOZ Cardinal Mahony speaking out unleashed something really big. He, the church, made this issue public ...
CECILIA MUNOZ We do think it's workable. We're encouraged by it.
CECILIA MUNOZ That one fact is why people are not coming through legal channels.
CECILIA MUNOZ There are 11 million people living and working in the United States. This bill ultimately does nothi...
CECILIA MUNOZ Let's take a deep breath here. I guess what's frustrating is that Senator Kerry was just at our conf...
CECILIA MUNOZ There are 11 million [undocumented immigrants] living and working in the United States. This bill ul...
CECILIA MUNOZ This is not something to be playing politics with. The lives of millions of people are at stake here...
CECILIA MUNOZ They are very much taking it seriously. We're very optimistic.
CECILIA JOHNSON Our senior class thought this was going to go away. Our juniors now know. They are getting very conc...
CECILIA JOHNSON The principals are in full support of this.
CECILIA JOHNSON We (she and her husband) made the commitment to join Our Lady Queen of Peace and help the Brazilian ...
CECILIA JOHNSON What immigrants feel immediately is isolation.
CECILIA JOHNSON It's been very useful for those students who are shy and may not participate in face-to-face classro...
CECILIA JOHNSON We feel the online program is comparable to a face-to-face setting because teachers write the curric...
CECILIA JOHNSON It's a big deal. If you're living with the pain and numbness, it's a big deal.
CECILIA FARLEY I just kind of gradually was able to lift more within two weeks very little pain and of course a sma...
CECILIA FARLEY I went to a doctor and had it diagnosed but then thought, I can't do it. I'd have to be off two week...
CECILIA FARLEY These three fingers would go numb. It would go into the thumb. Intense. Intense pain. Right here to ...
CECILIA FARLEY Once I did interviews with her family and got all of the medical information that I needed, I starte...
CECILIA CARROLL I finally went home to my country three years ago. There is so much poverty there and so many kids n...
CECILIA CARROLL She has been staying with me since April 4. It's been working out good. It's better for them because...
CECILIA CARROLL It's for the kids. It's like you are giving a new life to a child.
CECILIA CARROLL I would love if she could get donations to maybe go to Disney World or something before she leaves, ...
CECILIA CARROLL A lot of people donate their miles. The Rotary only pays for hospitalization, the operation and medi...
CECILIA CARROLL The point of adoption is to create a new family with all the rights and responsibilities that go wit...
CECILIA ZALKIND I'm not sure anybody totally understands this phenomenon. ... But we are happily stunned. We're all ...
CECILIA MUNOZ She was very accomplished and this was before the feminist movement.
CECILIA MRUK We are calling on leadership on both sides of the aisle to get back to it. The life of millions of p...
CECILIA MUNOZ This is a gesture to the xenophobic wing of the party, and that is alarming. It threatens extraordin...
CECILIA MUNOZ And the only thing I knew how to do was to hold on as tightly as possible and count every single sec...
CECILIA VINESSE We will not accept enforcement-only approaches.
CECILIA MUNOZ If federal authorities are using this as an enforcement opportunity, it creates a moral dilemma for ...
CECILIA MUNOZ She felt that if you educated a woman, you educated a family.
CECILIA MRUK If you want to create a permanent underclass, this is the way to do it.
CECILIA MUNOZ Consider, O Lover, my throat
white as cigarette paper.

The crushed lavender of my kn...
CECILIA LLOMPART We don't want the Olympic Games becoming, let's say, a Formula-One event where sponsors are on cars,...
CECILIA GANDINI She taught me an awful lot about the clouds.
CECILIA MRUK Jessica guffawed. “Well, almost every need. It will be every need when we walk in the door and the...
CECILIA AUBREY I think, ultimately, this committee can report out a bill.
CECILIA MUNOZ If we pass reforms that either pretend they're not here or pretend they'll go away, we're fooling ou...
CECILIA MUNOZ The only way something gets through is on a bipartisan vote.
CECILIA MUNOZ We couldn't possibly support a proposal that says you can work here, but you can never be apart of o...
CECILIA MUNOZ It doesn't really deal with why people are migrating or why our economy is so dependent on their lab...
CECILIA MUNOZ And I was sent to the left.
CECILIA ETKIN My memories. I still have nightmares, just screamed in my dream. About a year ago, I had a dream, th...
CECILIA ETKIN No I didn't. My parents were killed.
CECILIA ETKIN Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I...
CECILIA RANDELL Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude w...
CECILIA LONDON Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars...
CECILIA LONDON Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.
CECILIA ROTH I just love to take pictures.
CECILIA ROTH But it always came back to anger.
CECILIA GRAY It might not be distance or time that takes you away from people. Maybe you decide when you let them...
CECILIA VINESSE Periodically, I return to the classics for inspiration and refreshment.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON True friendship is worth more than can be measured,
a quality forever to be treasured.
Tr...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON In fantasy, you have licence to pick whatever you like out of history and fantasy, and you don't...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I support the rights of non-humans wholeheartedly with my voice, my money, my presence, my writing a...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I grew up reading - and loving - stories by Andre Norton. I admired and idolised her from afar. Her ...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I've heard that many fine artists have to turn their 'finished' paintings to face the wa...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I am greatly impressed with the BBC's TV adaption of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House.'...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did n...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON The Internet is amazing.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON Whenever the kindly uncles and aunts came over for a cup of tea and asked what I wanted to be when I...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON