Montserrat Caballé

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Montserrat Caballé, 1971

María de Montserrat Bibiana Concepción Caballé i Folch [ munsəˈrat kəβəˈʎe ] (born April 12, 1933 in Barcelona ; † October 6, 2018 ibid) was a Spanish opera singer ( soprano ). She was considered one of the most important opera singers and with over 4000 appearances as the last great opera diva .

Career

Caballé studied singing in Barcelona and Milan and made his debut at the Basel Theater in 1956 as Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème . She also sang at the theater in Saarbrücken . From 1959 to 1962 she was employed at the theater of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . In 1965 she stepped in for Marilyn Horne in a concert performance of Donizetti's opera Lucrezia Borgia at Carnegie Hall and delighted the audience. In the same year she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Margarethe in Gounod's Faust , which made her internationally known. Caballé was a frequent guest at festivals (including in Glyndebourne ), and since 1971 she has also appeared regularly at the Hamburg State Opera . She also appeared frequently as a concert singer.

Her extensive repertoire focused primarily on the operas by Rossini , Donizetti and Bellini , but also by Verdi and Puccini . Her lyrical voice was characterized by sensual beauty and an extraordinary piano .

In 1997 Mike Moran produced her album Friends for Life , which contains duets with Caballé and various singers, u. a. Bruce Dickinson , Johnny Hallyday , Johnny Logan , Gino Vannelli and Helmut Lotti . In 1998 Caballé was awarded a Bambi . In 2007 she received the ECHO Klassik music award for her life's work.

On April 1, 2007, Montserrat Caballé returned to the Vienna State Opera for the first time in 18 years . At the side of Natalie Dessay , Juan Diego Flórez and Janina Baechle she played the role of Duchesse de Crakentorp in Donizetti's La fille du régiment (The Regiment's Daughter ) in a co-production of the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera New York . Despite her old age, she performed in Kiev in June 2018. Caballé had discovered and promoted the tenor José Carreras .

Barcelona with Freddie Mercury 1992

Caballé became known to the audience interested in rock music through the song Barcelona for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . It is a track from the album of the same name, which was recorded with Freddie Mercury in 1987 . The album was created on the initiative of Freddie Mercury, who was one of her admirers. At her request, Mercury wrote a piece about her hometown of Barcelona, ​​which was first performed on May 29, 1987 in Ibiza .

Private

Caballé married the tenor Bernabé Martí (* 1928) in 1964 , and the marriage lasted until her death. Their daughter, Montserrat Martí Caballé (known as "Montsita"), is also a soprano. Caballé also has a son and a grandchild.

In 2014, Caballé was sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence and a fine of 240,000 euros for tax evasion. She died on October 6, 2018 at the age of 85 and was buried in the family vault in the Cementerio of Sant Andreu in Barcelona.

repertoire

Montserrat Caballé in the leading role in the opera Semiramide by Gioachino Rossini in Aix-en-Provence (1980)
Pedro Lavirgen and Caballé in Turandot (1980)
Montserrat Caballé Conservatory in Arganda del Rey

Audio samples

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Barcelona (with Freddie Mercury )
  DE 41 02/03/1992 (20 weeks)
  AT 24 02/16/1992 (6 weeks)
  CH 18th 09/13/1992 (7 weeks)
  UK 15th 10/22/1988 (8 weeks)
Hijo de la luna
  DE 35 01/23/1995 (12 weeks)
Our Christmas carols (with Montserrat Martí)
  DE 59 12/16/1996 (3 weeks)
Caballé and Friends
  DE 100 04/07/1997 (1 week)
Friends for Life
  DE 54 06/09/1997 (9 weeks)
  CH 17th 05/11/1997 (10 weeks)
Singles
Barcelona (with Freddie Mercury)
  DE 32 January 18, 1988 (14 weeks)
  UK 8th 
silver
silver
07/11/1987 (9 weeks)
The Golden Boy (with Freddie Mercury)
  UK 86 05/11/1988 (2 weeks)
How Can I Go On (with Freddie Mercury)
  UK 95 02/04/1989 (2 weeks)
Barcelona (1992) (with Freddie Mercury)
  AT 24 02/16/1992 (6 weeks)
  CH 8th 03/01/1992 (13 weeks)
  UK 2 08/08/1992 (8 weeks)
One Life, One Soul (with Gotthard )
  CH 14th 03/09/1997 (10 weeks)
March With Me (with Vangelis )
  DE 67 08/18/1997 (3 weeks)

Honors

  • 1996: RSH Gold in the category "Classical LP of the Year" (Barcelona)
  • 2004: The Conservatory opened in Arganda del Rey that year was the first to be named after Caballé.
  • 2007: Appointment as chamber singer of the Vienna State Opera
  • 2009: Dama Di Gran Croce by the Italian President

Web links

Commons : Montserrat Caballé  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Montserrat  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballé died at the age of 85. In: Berliner Kurier , October 6, 2018. Accessed October 6, 2018.
  2. ↑ Thomas Lindemann: Feel the pain. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 6, 2018, accessed on October 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The last great opera diva is dead , FAZ, October 6, 2018
  4. ↑ When the ample Catalan sings: Callas is no more; Kiri Te Kanawa is making television commercials, but Montserrat Caballe, the 61-year-old soprano with the old-fashioned style, is still the people's diva of choice , independent.co.uk, May 22, 1994
  5. ↑ Montserrat Caballe accepts penalty in tax proceedings , orf.at, 23 December 2014
  6. ↑ Caballé pacta con la Fiscalía medio año de cárcel por defraudar a Hacienda , efe.com, 23 December 2014
  7. ↑ Jens Voskamp: Obituary: The amazing opera diva Montserrat Caballé. In: nordbayern.de. Nürnberger Nachrichten , October 6, 2018, accessed on July 24, 2019 .
  8. ^ Montserrat Caballé buried in Barcelona. In: br.de. Bayerischer Rundfunk , October 8, 2018, accessed on July 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ The grave of Montserrat Caballé. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on July 24, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Chart sources: CH
  11. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
  12. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  13. ↑ RSH Gold Award 1996
  14. ↑ Acto de inauguración del nuevo Conservatorio Municipal de Música "Montserrat Caballé"
  15. ↑ Caballé visita el conservatorio de Arganda que lleva su nombre
  16. ↑ Interview ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Online Merker , April 2007; accessed on October 20, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / der-neue-merker.eu
personal data
SURNAME Caballé, Montserrat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caballé i Folch, Maria de Montserrat Viviana Concepción (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2018
Place of death Barcelona