Montserrat Caballé
Born: 12th April 1933, Barcelona, Spanish Republic
Died: 6th October 2018, Barcelona, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Caballé's international breakthrough came in 1965 when she substituted for an indisposed Marilyn Horne in a semi-staged performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at New York's Carnegie Hall. While she had to learn the role in less than one month, and considering this was her first engagement in a bel canto score, her performance created a sensation and made her famous throughout the opera world. The day after the New York Times quoted "Callas + Tebaldi = Caballé". Later that year, Caballé made her debut at Glyndebourne singing her first Rosenkavalier and at the Metropolitan Opera as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust. In December 1965 she also returned to Carnegie Hall for her second bel canto opera, singing the tremendous part of Queen Elizabeth I in Donizetti's recently rediscovered Roberto Devereux.
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Montserrat Caballé (1933-2018)
The great Spanish soprano, renowned for her legendary pianissimi and superb command of bel canto, has died at the age of 85.
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