Salle gaveau simone kermes biography

Here is our complete interview with German coloratura soprano Simone Kermes..

Grandes Voix et Concerts Parisiens Simone Kermes, récital d'airs d'opéras pour castra (Porpora, Leo, Hasse, Pergolese, Haendel) Salle Gaveau.

  • Simone Kermes, Vivaldi.
  • Here is our complete interview with German coloratura soprano Simone Kermes.
  • In 2004, she won the first Monte Carlo Violin Masters Competition.
  • Nicola Porpora has today been largely relegated to the fringes of operatic history, but in his day he was considered a worthy rival of George.

    • Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music?

    A dream – I was 5 years old – in my dream I was standing on a big stage – an opera stage – and I sang – OPERA – I was shocked because I wanted to be a ROCK STAR!

    Who or what have been the most important influences on your musical life and career?

    I was 8 years old and every day I would listen to opera music on vinyl that I would borrow from the library with the goal to sing all this kind of stuff,  in reality later perfectly….at the opera houses… like the Queen of the Night, Konstanze, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna (by Mozart),  Elisabeth from Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and and more… most of them I have sung!

    What have been the greatest challenges of your career so far?

    I am my own boss and I create everything myself.

    I founded my own agency, my own Italian orchestra, Amici Veneziani, I create my own projects and recordings. I have to fight hard for a better qu