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"Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension"

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Bartoli’s line reads like an artist’s manifesto, but it’s also a quiet rebuttal to the way we’ve trained ourselves to consume culture: alone, distracted, optimized. “Dream together” puts the emphasis where classical music is often least understood today - not on prestige or technique, but on communion. She’s pointing to the social physics of a performance: a room syncing its attention, breath, and expectation. The “together” matters because it frames music as a shared act of imagination, not a private soundtrack.

“Go to another dimension” could sound airy in the wrong mouth; from Bartoli, it’s craft-aware. Opera and vocal performance are built on a disciplined kind of unreality: a body producing superhuman emotion with engineered breath, language, and tone. The phrase smuggles in a claim about transformation without naming the machinery. You don’t escape the world by avoiding it; you exit by entering the architecture of rhythm and harmony so fully that ordinary time loosens.

Context matters here: Bartoli is a star of a form that’s constantly asked to justify itself as relevant. Her subtext is strategic: music isn’t a museum object, it’s a technology for collective feeling. It’s also a gentle argument against cynicism. “Dimension” implies more than mood; it suggests expanded perception, the sense that life can be larger than its daily constraints. In an era of individualized feeds, she’s defending the old-fashioned radicalism of listening together and being changed in public.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bartoli, Cecilia. (2026, January 15). Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/music-is-a-way-to-dream-together-and-go-to-142339/

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Bartoli, Cecilia. "Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/music-is-a-way-to-dream-together-and-go-to-142339/.

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"Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/music-is-a-way-to-dream-together-and-go-to-142339/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Cecilia Bartoli (born June 4, 1966) is a Musician from Italy.

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