"I love languages and most likely would have become a translator or teacher if I wouldn’t have chosen to be a singer. From my childhood on, I played the piano, but it was only later on that I realized that singing was the way with which I could express myself best. Opera is timeless. The stories that are negotiated, the characters and their conflicts, are as relevant today as they were a hundred, two-hundred or three-hundred years ago when they were written."