Anna Netrebko Quotes

I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. It's not the diva speaking. It's the artist who knows how it has to be done.

I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.

When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that's what people want.

Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.

Nobody ever looked at me in Krasnodar. I'm not in the taste of the men there at all.

In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.

The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

You will not see me dressed in plain, modest outfits.

I prefer department stores. In boutiques, they come up and ask you if you need help. I can't get lost in the experience.

Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love if they had a chance to hear it.

Life is not just about singing.

When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.