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Check out my other items !Be sure to add me to your favorites list ! BEAUTIFUL HAND SIGNED 8 X 10 BW GLOSSY PHOTOGRAPH OF MONTSERRAT CABALLE. THIS IS A REAL SIGNATURE, NOT A COPY. VERY FINE CONDITION, COMES WITH MY LIFETIME CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY. THANKS FOR LOOKING AND GOOD LUCK...PETRPAPERMAN... Montserrat Caballé (born 12 April 1933) is a Spanish Catalan operatic soprano . One of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century, she possessed a voice of remarkable beauty and of great range and flexibility, renowned for her flawless bel canto technique and unfailling musicianship. She was particularly admired for her interpretations of the works of Rossini , Bellini , Donizetti and Verdi . Contents [hide ] 1 Early life and career 2 Success and fame 3 Achievements 4 The later years 5 External links [ edit ] Early life and careerCaballé was born in Barcelona and studied music at the Liceu Conservatory and singing technique under Eugenia Kemeny and Conchita BadÃa. She graduated with the gold medal in 1954. She made her professional debut at the Basel Opera in 1956, as Mimì in La bohème . She was then engaged by the Bremen Opera for the 1961-62 season, w she developed the foundations of her wide repertoire. In 1962, Caballé returned to Barcelona and made her debut at the Liceu , singing the title-role in Richard Strauss' Arabella . [ edit ] Success and fameCaballé'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. 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 . In 1966 she made her debut at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Trovatore (and Pirata in 1967). In 1969 she produced an astonishing performance as Elisabetta of Valois in an all-star cast (including Domingo and Cappuccilli ) of Don Carlo at the Arena di Verona in a famous Jean Vilar production. Her high B (Si) on the final "ciel" at the very end of the opera has become famous, lasting for more than 20 bars up to the final accord from the orchestra (a duration of approximately 14 seconds), driving mad an audience of more than 20,000. In these performances she had to act on crutches because an accident occurred earlier that year in New York City. In the same period she also appeared in one of the most remarkable recitals of her career at the Teatro Corallo, also in Verona .In 1970, she made her "official" debut at La Scala in Milan as Lucrezia Borgia and in 1972 her Covent Garden debut as Violetta in La traviata .1974 was probably the year when Caballé reached her peak, with a number of astonishing performances: Aida at Liceu in January, Vespri at the Met in March, Parisina d'Este at Carnegie Hall in March, 3 Norma s in one week at the Bolshoi in Moscow, with Adriana Lecouvreur at La Scala in April, Norma in Orange in July (her top single performance, filmed in video by Pierre Jourdain), the recording of Aida under Muti in July, and the Duets recording with Giuseppe di Stefano in August.In September she underwent major surgery to remove a huge but benign tumoral mass from her abdomen. She recovered quite well and was again on stage in early 1975.Having lost some of her earlier brilliance and purity of voice, Caballé made up for it finding a more dramatic utterance and expressive singing in roles that demanded it. Thus, in 1978, another great year in her career, she sang a magnificent Tosca in San Francisco, with Pavarotti , and in Madrid ...
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