Montserrat Caballé

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Molilserraí Caballé is (»ne ofíhe few truly great «peralic sopranos to have appeared since the War. Catapulted into the limelight on her New York début in 1965, she has sung throughout the world in an astonishing array of roles. Late in her career, when most other sopranos conlnie themselves to a handful of manageable roles, she has embarked on an exploration of long-forgotten operas. And her lame has reached for beyond the operatic world through her partnership with Freddie Mercury on the best-selling album Barcelona.
Throughout a career marked by controversy and bouts of ill-health, Caballé has preserved her characteristic good humour. In private she is not at all grand; yet she embodies more completely than any other contemporar) singer what is meant by the over-used term 'diva'. This first-ever full-length biography reveals why, charting her progress from a deprived childhood in war-torn Spain, through hcryears of training and struggle for recognition, to her present w... Tovább

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Molilserraí Caballé is (»ne ofíhe few truly great «peralic sopranos to have appeared since the War. Catapulted into the limelight on her New York début in 1965, she has sung throughout the world in an astonishing array of roles. Late in her career, when most other sopranos conlnie themselves to a handful of manageable roles, she has embarked on an exploration of long-forgotten operas. And her lame has reached for beyond the operatic world through her partnership with Freddie Mercury on the best-selling album Barcelona.
Throughout a career marked by controversy and bouts of ill-health, Caballé has preserved her characteristic good humour. In private she is not at all grand; yet she embodies more completely than any other contemporar) singer what is meant by the over-used term 'diva'. This first-ever full-length biography reveals why, charting her progress from a deprived childhood in war-torn Spain, through hcryears of training and struggle for recognition, to her present w orld-star status. Stephen Taylor and Robert Pullen shrewdly analyse Caballé's art in a critical discography, and proWdc an intriguing insight into the international operatic scene, taking in most of the great names of the last thirty years, from Callas and Sutherland to Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras.
Caballé has co-operated fully with the authors on this biography, making available private documents, photographs and a fund of often amusing personal reminiscences. Miat emerges is a rich |)ortrait of a singer regarded b) many as the last in the line of authentic prima donna sopranos. Vissza