Personality – Charisma – Open honesty & integrity

This profession has been the thread running through my life. As a child, I used to talk to imaginary characters on the balcony, sing for hours in bed at night, and put on plays in my room for an imaginary audience for years on end. I started ballet lessons at the age of five and joined a choir at eight. At twelve, I went to see my first opera at the Zurich Opera House and knew immediately: I am going to be an opera singer; I want to be able to do that too. At the age of 13, out of pure curiosity, I practised canons on the piano: first part with the right hand, second part with the left hand, third part with singing. Through my vocal studies, my now internationally recognised status as a youthful dramatic soprano with a repertoire of dramatic solo roles, and through years of stage experience as an opera singer, my objectives have broadened somewhat:
I want to touch, move and inspire people, relieve them of stress, and offer them a heartfelt and musical embrace. And, of course, it is also very important to me to do justice to the composers and librettists through my vocal interpretation, whilst still offering a special and personal interpretation with my exceptional, beautiful and warm voice.

Positive people – nature – the uninhibited, natural and genuine radiance of happy children – profound people with an alert mind, curiosity, openness and a broad horizon.

You should not try to explain too intellectually to children; instead, you should let them discover life for themselves. With my own children, I danced to classical music with them as early as possible, when they were still in my arms, preferably to pieces with changing rhythms, such as J. Brahms’ ‘Hungarian Dances’, so that they could experience the musical rhythm through their bodies. I even once had a whole singing lesson with my son under my arm because he would not go to sleep in the singing teacher’s room next-door. He also knows the opera stage from the inside out; in ‘Die Meistersinger’ (R. Wagner) he stood frozen with me for twenty minutes and experienced the stage from the inside, so to speak, whilst my daughter has already appeared in several productions on the Zurich opera stage herself. Perhaps the following sentence best sums it up for a child:
I make people happy through singing because I can offer them something beautiful, give them a break from work and everyday life, stimulate their imagination and touch them emotionally.

For me, success means being able to touch people emotionally and connect with them through my work – something I am absolutely passionate about. The audience’s joy is a tremendous gift; it brings a sense of fulfilment that money can never buy!