His roles are mostly comic, about 85 percent of the time, he estimates. I don't know. Everyone comes with something innate. Comedy intrigues me. Making people laugh is more difficult than making them weep, because the reasons for crying are always the same.
Comedy changes from culture to culture.
Opera bouffe is a very challenging experience. In a serious opera, if a singer has a moment of difficulty, he can show it. One cannot do this in comic opera. You always have to pretend you are having fun and not show what is inside you. Antoniozzi sang his first Falstaff at the age of 25 in Treviso.