Caballe - Beyond Music

Starring: Montserrat Caballe Dvd Release: 6th December, 2004 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 0 Encoding

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This docufilm is an ESSENTIAL item for any opera or music lover.

It is one of the most ambitious & large scale docufilms EVER MADE about an opera star. A fascinating journey throughout her life, the world of opera & music in general.

It allows to know & understand Caballés stature as an operatic titan, her persona, her wisdom & her legacy. And at the same time, enlightens the Opera world to anyone who is not familiar with it - turning it into a completly exciting, emotional & at the same time educational experience!! To make this film, it took 3 yrs & 22 cities from Saint Petersburg to New York!

Among the celebrities interviewed/appearing on the film: Maria Callas, Renée Fleming, Placido Domingo, Dame Joan Sutherland, Zubin Mehta, Marilyn Horne, Claudio Abbado, Mstislav Rostropovich, Freddie Mercury, José Carreras, Samuel Ramey, Cheryl Studer, Maya Plisetskaya, Yelena Obratsova, Pr. Luc Montagnier , Federico Mayor Zaragoza , among many other. .

The film also has included ESPECTACULAR archival material, some of it previously UNPUBLISHED, found in archives of theaters & television stations accross the world. Among them, Caballés legendary debut in Paris in 1966 with 2 arias from Il Pirata & Anne Boleyn - PURE GOLD.

Also, moments of her sensational collaboration with FREDDIE MERCURY & Vangelis, her Paris Turandot, Norma, Tosca, Adriana Lecouvreur, Salome, Roberto Devereux, Semiramide, & many, many more; surprises that any music lover will absolutely cherish!!

Caballé is a fundamental pillar of the XX Century & this film is an INSTANT CLASSIC & a MUST HAVE piece for anyone who loves not only Caballé & Opera, but music in general. It is an indispensable item for any music lover!!!

The Catalan soprano Montserrat Caballe is a famous opera singer, renowned for her bel canto technique & her interpretations of the great bel canto roles of Rossini, Bellini & Donizetti. Caballé was born Maria de Montserrat Viviana Concepción Caballé in Barcelona. She studied music at the Liceu Conservatory. She joined the Basel Opera in 1956, where she made her professional operatic debut in 1957 as Mimì in La Bohème. For the 1960–61 season, she was engaged by the Bremen Opera, where she specialized in bel canto roles. In 1962 Caballé returned to Barcelona & made her debut at the Liceu. In 1964, she married the tenor Bernabé Marti. Caballés international breakthrough came in 1965 when she substituted for an indisposed Marilyn Horne in a concert performance of Lucrezia Borgia at New York s Carnegie Hall ; her peformance created a sensation & made her famous throughout the opera world. Later that year, Caballé made her debut at Glyndebourne & at the Metropolitan Opera as Marguerite in Gounod s Faust.

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