“The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the ...” — Anna Netrebko Quote

“The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!”

“When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!”

“When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that's what people want.”

“This sounds weird, but some of my concerts have been kind of dangerous sometimes. I've had a few girls actually sent to the hospital because they faint and all that kind of stuff, which is really, really weird to me.”

“I never really thought of music as a particularly social thing. I experienced music through recordings as opposed to concerts. It just makes you think about the way things are put together, the way things are written as opposed to the showbusiness of something onstage, so no regrets there.”