RIP Montserrat Caballé

[allezfred]

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/06/spanish-soprano-montserrat-caballe-dies-aged-85

 

[skatesindreams]

How I will miss her!

"Casta Diva" - Norma:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqxjpDyLWP4

 

[tony]

March With Me was all the rage in the early 2000's in skating, and for some reason, something that always sticks with me is that I remember Terry Gannon announcing the title of the music for a pairs team IIRC, and saying ' they're skating to Montserrat Caballe - which means March With Me' RIP.

ETA- I actually found it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD6qcYcw9gA#t=4m02

 

[Spun Silver]

She was one of "my" first sopranos and I still revere that unique, wonderful voice, the kind they don't make any more. She was a late iteration of the Golden Age of singing IMO.

I also always remember a review of her and Pavarotti in Tosca that called them a pair of butterballs and said that instead of throwing herself off the parapet at the end, Caballe calmly strolled offstage.

 

[BittyBug]

RIP to one of the all time greats.

 

[Jot the Dot Dot]

Her duet album with Freddie Mercury on the 'Barcelona' project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fiOJDXA-E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPizyP4x30I

 

[eusebius]

I grew up listening to Caballé, especially the studio Bohème with Domingo which I adored:
https://youtu.be/JcfTV4PlBMY

I've still never heard many things sung better than by her. Also amazing is the live Norma from Orange, 1974:
https://youtu.be/kqxjpDyLWP4

 

[bardtoob]

She could do Carmen.

https://youtu.be/0Ra_ea5wxfk

And the quintessential O Mio Babbino Caro

https://youtu.be/9ZREmfYrcKU
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As said, her collaboration with Freddie Mercury was amazing ... I always felt a special connection with their performance at Ku Club (Aka Privilege) in May of 1987.

https://youtu.be/pPG5DP2RQZk