Fade out.

Singing Opera from Pandemic and onwards. Not just an Anglicism, but a well-known recording or cinematographic technique used to end a piece or a sequence (even when there are no alternative solutions for the conclusion), gradually reducing it to silence; dissolvenza in Italian. We might metaphorically bring it closer to the encouraging data that arrive, …

Stars’ dust

Recently, in a flattering article commenting on one of my performances, the reviewer wondered why I wasn't a “superstar". And often, after my performances in the main Opera houses in Vienna, Munich, London, Paris etc., it has happened that Italian fans, who came there to listen to me, after complimenting, asked: “But why is it …