Montserrat Cabals

Maria de Montserrat Viviana Concepción Caballé I Folch , better known under the name of Montserrat Caballé (born the April 12th 1933) is a Spanish Soprano of opera , re-elected for its technique of Bel canto and for its interpretations of the roles of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti.

Career

It was born with Barcelona. After studies of music to the academy of the Liceu, it joined the opera of Basle in 1956, where it carries out its professional beginnings in the role of Mimi, in Bohemian the of Giacomo Puccini. In 1960 and 1961, it is engaged by the opera of Bremen where it sings a very broad repertory of lyrico-dramatic soprano, of Mozart to Dvořák while passing by Verdi and Puccini, without still finding its true personality vocal. In 1962, it goes back to Barcelona and makes its beginnings with the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the role titrates Arabella of Strauss.

The first international success of Cabal occurs in 1965, when it replaces Marilyn Horne, upset, for a representation of Lucrèce Borgia with the Carnegie Hall of New York. It created sensation there, being made a fame in the world of the opera. Later in the same year, Caballé makes its beginnings with the Festival of Glyndebourne, and with the Metropolitan Opera as a Marguerite in the Faust of Gounod. In 1972, it makes its beginnings with the Scala, in the opera Norma Bellini, and with the Royal Opera House with Covent Garden as Violetta in Traviata of Verdi. It is as from this time that it systematically explores the repertory of Beautiful romantic Canto, Donizetti, Bellini and the Verdi young people, taking part in the resurrection of this kind at the sides of the Sutherland, Sills and Gencer.

Vocal faculties

Its voice is known for its purity, its perfect homogeneity on a great extent (of the la3 to the réb5), with a low register typically Spanish, a velvety but powerful medium and acute full and brilliance. The natural incisivity of its stamp and its exceptional technique of breath enabled him to practically sing all the repertory of soprano except for the overshrill roles. Although it is especially known for its roles of beautiful canto , Caballé sang more than eighty roles of opera, the opera Baroque with Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini, while passing by the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier of Strauss, and the éponyme role of Salome of which it will remain a major interpreter.

Cabal is also a re-elected recitalist, primarily of songs of sound native Spain.

If the Cabal, contrary to the Fixed, did not always invest itself in the theatricalness of its roles, it however marked them by its musical quality, the play of the colors and an extraordinary pallet of nuances and the dynamic ones. In the role of Normalized, one of more testing repertory, it could reach the same level of emotion that Maria Callas by purely musical means, centered on the supreme beauty of its voice.

Others

At the time of one of its short excursions in the world of the pop music, the duet between Cabal and the singer of rock'n'roll Freddie Mercury, Barcelona (1987), was a success which gave place to an album of the same name. The piece became, later, the anthem of the Olympic Games of Barcelona in 1992, revealing it again in the prize list of the sales in Europe. She also interpreted this piece in live , accompanied by a recording by late Freddie Mercury, at the time of the finale of 1999 of the UEFA Cup at the stage of Nou Camp with Barcelona.

She also recorded in duet with Bruce Dickinson, singer of the group of heavy metal Iron Maiden, a taken again of Bohemian Rhapsody in homage to Freddie Mercury.

Since its retirement, participle with several charitable organizations Cabals. It is Ambassadeur of good will of UNESCO and created a foundation for the children in the need with Barcelona.

Cabal married the Ténor Bernabé Martí in 1964. His/her daughter, Montserrat Martí, is also singer; she and her mother sings occasionally together.

External bonds

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