37 Quotes by Anna Netrebko

I do not have voice for Russian music; I cannot be cute little peasant like in operas of Glinka or Rimsky-Korsakov. I am now never in Russia; I am Austrian citizen. But definitely I am Latin!

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

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.

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

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

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

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.