It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

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

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.

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.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.