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  • qui e' meravigliosa,a Orange fu divina.Pienamente d'accordo con Maripudelmonaco.A Orange veramente la Caballe' e' stata baciata da Dio.per la nostra gioia.

  • Esto si que es arte y no Justin Bieber, Grandiosa Monserrat Caballé.

  • it touches my heart deeply...

  • I must say that for me only Callas And Monserrat Caballe and Kiri Te Kanawa for Casta Diva- different voices different interpretations but that is fine is it not? We should enjoy the differences instead of dwelling on them. It is amaizing this recording now there is only rubbish in the zarzuela theatre in madrid. lucky audiences of 1978 .I wish I could have lived then

  • Eat your hearts out: I saw Ms. Caballe sing Norma at the Met with Luciano Pavarotti as Pollioine. I remember that she was a little round dumpling of a woman and that I fell in love with her because of her beautiful voice. I remember seeing her another time in the audience at the Met and being struck by how short she was. She is the soprano I most enjoy listening to.

  • Эта музыка - чудо. Just magic.

  • Montserrat Caballé est NORMA. Aucune cantatrice n'a jamais chanté cet air avec autant de beauté et de pureté vocale. Le timbre et la couleur de la voix sont simplement exceptionnels. Tout est limpide et coule sans à-coups. Quant au final, c'est le sublime. BRAVA CABALLE!

  • 64 personas están sordas

  • CONGRATULATIONS ¡¡ FELICITATS ¡¡ 50 years singuing Montserrat. Queen of Barcelona's Liceu 3/1/2012

    Kisses from Barcelona.

  • Monserrat Caballé es la mejor cantante del mundo, su timbre es incomparable.

  • Foarte frumos a si nu uitati si de Angela Gheorghiu cu aceas piesa casta diva....ea canta mai cu viatza!!! Ori cum si maria e cool dar nu i iese ca si la Angela

  • ME ENCANTA ESTA PIEZA...HERMOSA...TOTALMENTE RELAJADO...!!!!

  • The best performance of Casta Diva!

  • Montserrat Caballé nació para ser la Casta Diva ! Sublime y éterea. Su voz en esta aria es como escuchar el canto de los ángeles del cielo.

  • Fantastic ! I got so many thrills !

  • nunca visto

  • MARAVILLOSA !!! He tenido la suerte de asistir a estas representaciones y fueron noches mágicas, porque además de la MAGISTRAL CABALLE, estaba como ADALGISA, la mejor que ha existido : FIORENZA COSSOTTO, y los duos entre estos dos MONSTRUOS SAGRADOS eran de escalofrios. De todas formas, como la NORMA de Orange, de 1974, no habrá nada igual,, pues como ésa noche no se ha vuelto a oir nada mejor, la escucho siempre de rodillas

  • The Best. Period.

  • ¡Simplemente maravilloso!

  • Agreed: Please don't compare Divas!

    Caballe is absolutely hypnotic and especially here for this magical aria. She is hypnotised herself and completely in her element in this video.

    We have great great Divas now but they don't make them like they used to...

    If there are any perfumistas here, you'll know what I'm talking about in every sense.

  • los angeles han tocado su voz

  • ПОТРЯСАЮЩЕЕ ИСПОЛНЕНИЕ.СПАСИБО!!!

  • es lo mejor que me pudo haver pasado vela cantar con la cosotto en oviedo y cada vez que veo un video de ella no hay quien la iguale es la mejor norma

  • Thirtty five years ago, Norma was hideous but knew how to sing; today, Norma is thin and gorgeous, but has to go back to school. Nevertheless, Norma is still as successfull as in those older times... What has happened to us, the public??? I would believe that in 1978 the applauses were for the singing, nowadays only for the pretty faces...

  • fantastica Monserrat

  • In a performance like this I never see a diva, but rather a complete artist at the top of his/her game. Montserrat was definitly at her top.. I always debate who has perfomed this very difficult aria better? Callas or Caballe? Give credit to the lady.

    The world is better with Caballe... thank God!

  • А у Монсерат , другой диапазон , ближе к Марии , итак все девочки поют изумительно , это результат сравнительного анализа.

  • Monserrat Caballe is truly a great artist too. Her voice is very pure and so full of brilliancy.

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  • Amazing Monserat! Magnificent performance! What a great Diva!

  • Montserrat is perfect here, God what a great artist we opera lovers have been blessed with.

  • perfetta:)bravissima:)

  • Maria Callas y Montserrat Caballé, las dos caras de la misma moneda, lo mejor de lo mejor!!!

  • Es maravillosa junto con Maria Callas las mejores cuerdas vocales que habra jamas.

    Me hubiera encantado escucharlo mientras te veia.

    Besos para esta gran mujer.

  • q tiene en la garkanta? xq parece q ni usa microfono xDDD

  • como es posible que 55 personas que, en teoría han visto este video porque les gusta la lírica o la ópera particularmente, sean capaces de decir que no les gusta este video. Soy incapaz de entender que una persona tenga tan poca sensibilidad artística o como quiera llamarse. Ojalá recapaciten o simplemente sean capaces en un futuro de admirar obras de arte como la que aquí nos ofrece la genial Montserrat Caballé.

  • @elreydeldo Como bien has dicho, es poca sensibilidad artística. Hoy en día si no pones lo comercial, ya no es arte.

  • meirveilleuse music meme si la elle la chante un peut vite a mon gout ^^" et elle ni mais pas trop du coeur ^^" on dirait quelle lit un texte mais reste meirveilleux

  • Magistral, bello y emocionante: Mucho cariño para Montserrat Caballé.

  • Incredible self control !!!

  • Gloria de Cataluña y de España ¡¡ Maravillosa, Genial.

  • Me conmueve, me crea un gran nudo en la garganta con su increíble voz, su inmenso poder dramático. ¡Qué diva! Y la dignidad y el gesto con que recibe los aplausos, tan imperturbable, tan gloriosa, a mi me hiela la sangre.

  • She is one of my!!! she's SPANISH!!!!!!!! KE VIVA ESPAÑA!!! we love you Monserrat!!!!!!!!

    desde Argentina,

    Erick (tenor lirico)

  • The Best Soprano ever.......viva" La Superba

  • Brava,ma quest'opera non è per i lirici,bensì per le voci lunari come i drammatici di agilità...

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  • Magistral Caballé. Un placer para los oidos.

  • Now THAT is what I call an ovation!!

  • De Lisboa um grande Bravo para a Montserrat de um seu grande admirador português

  • Caballe is wonderful as Norma and in many other roles. Her recording of "La Traviata" is exquisite. What a beautiful voice.

  • ¡¡¡BRAVA!!!

  • queen of the bel canto!

  • One of the best, if not, the best I've ever heard! Absolutely breath taking.

  • SUBLIME! además no pestañea!!!! :O

  • @Lushinger me encantó tu: "Además no pestañea" jajjajajjjjajja

  • Bravissimo!!!!!!!!!!! Ce manifique!!!!!!!!!

  • My favourite Lady!!!The best I've ever heard!I love her!

  • The best opera singer ever. Absolutely flawless voice.

  • Quel bonheur d'avoir plusieurs cantatrice de grand talent chantant des airs aussi mythiques. Mais se poser la question de qui est la meilleure me semble peu intéressant . C'est de l'art et pas du sport

  • brava 

  • Her voice is great and Cabale in general is unique...However I don't find her expresive enough at this particular role...

  • SUBLIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @TotoBaeza1970 Fair comment, but I think her 'expressiveness' is in her voice...take care, diana

  • Esto queda para la historia ,joder ,..¡¡¡ABRUMADOR!!!

  • My dearest,

    Stop comparing Divas. Divas do come to this world to show what beauty is. Callas and Caballe were presents given to us by God, To sing Norma is such an ordeal!!! It is difficult from beginnig to end for all parts.

    The only thing I do when I listen to both singing Casta Diva is thanking God for their presence among us.

    For the people who did not like the videos the only thing a I have to say is: Pity. You have to re-educate your ears and learn with both Divas what singing is.

  • @Alce2008

    there is nothing wrong with comparing divas. there is something wrong with saying things like "she sucks! how dare she, Callas owns this song!" or "she tries to be like Joan Sutherland, but she's just a poser!" honest comparison and diva trolling are not the same thing =)

  • I'm the opinion that it's not necessary to compare divas.

    They interpret their roles differently and have different personalities and different voices - every opera fan has got his own taste.

  • @Alce2008 you are so very right my friend!!!! Regards

  • incredible.. i really like it, but i still think that "casta diva" was made for Callas..

  • Bravissima! Bellissima!!

  • This's a masterclass on how to sing  sil fiato. Beautiful. Best Norma ever. Brava Caballe!

  • bellissimoooooooooo!

  • Born to sing! Such a voice.Amazing singing

  • a mother's worst nightmare. She portrays her pain so perfectly.

  • O.M.G crying <3 :*:*

  • The best Norma ever!!!

  • wow she uses tongue vibrato

  • Caballet creo, es una de las mejores sopranos que hay en la actualidad, si bien ahora su voz ha cambiado por el paso de los años.

  • UNSURPASSED !!!!!!

  • Tu est le grandeur a la maxime expression. Mercie MONSERRAT!!!

  • Diva du coeur, c'est une grande

    BRAVA LEIIIIIIIIIIIIII

  • Bravoooo!!!!

    La mejor interpretación de esta aria que he oído....Sin duda es sublime.

  • HEY FOLKS Calm down, Callas admired Caballe, and Caballe adored Callas, they were good friends, watch some documentary, pl.. :-)

  • I wish I could sing like this... I was told I'm a soprano but I need a professional to teach me :D 'cos I can't teach my self lol

  • Grandissima interprete,grandissima voce,bella,pastosa,gradevole..­.Grande Diva!!!Amo lei in questa versione,la Callas non mi ha mai convinto..

  • I LOVE THIS - IT BRINGS BACK BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES OF MY DEAR

    UNCLE NORVEL WHO INTRODUCED ME TO OPERA.. HOW I MISS HIM....

  • Makes you want to become a Druid, doesn't it?

  • bel timbro ma lasciano perplesse le agilità...

  • Too controlled..

  • Wow.

  • Ammirevole... spiace solo che alla fine dell'aria venga segnalato l'ascolto di una "Casta diva" eseguita da una corista ingolata e vociante spacciata per soprano.

  • Caballe siempre estaras ahi en mi fiel corazon por tu personalidad

    y tu magnifica voz...Todo un arte para hoy y siempreee!!! Felicidades...

  • Noone can ever outsing this divine Goddess! deepest bow from Russian admirers

  • Caballe é a VOZ!!!!!!

  • Marvelous, espero poder verla en algún recital

  • I'm quite sure this is how angels sing

  • @Lederius18 ... more like the way that a goddess sings ...

  • 29 personas son capullos... esta es una de las mejores sopranos españolas que tenemos por suerte viva... Monserrat Caballe maestra de maestras en el canto

  • Diva and Divine ... how amazing ... god bless to the greatest Monserrat

  • Nunca voy a entender esos votos contra el video..

    Caballe es Magnífica !

  • Sublime, magnifique...un régal, du bonheur pour les oreilles...

  • I don't have enough words to express my sentiments about this masterpiece

  • fantastica

  • have u ever seen her live in anything. even a concert. she is so much fun and full of life. she is not just doing what she wants here and being stiff. she is Directed by a director. dont judge her by just looking at this. it sure seems to me. and i am director myself. that he directed her to be this way. very stoic. u say wooden. i say stoic

  • Vabbana: a holy priestess is not supposed to show much emotion, she has to be solemn - so I thought.

  • magnificent most divine . I feel like I am in heaven whenever I listen to The Great Montserrat Caballe. I join the audience with the long ovation !

  • Sublimissime !

  • I cannot imagine the emotion of being there in the public in that moment! it must have been an unforgettable experience!

    Brava Caballé, a monument

  • Magnifica!

  • MAGNIFICENT

  • Magnifique, Divin et encore mon latin ne suffirait pas a dire la majéstuosité de cette cantatrice.

  • good voice, but no expression, no emotion in her eyes, she sings, but nothing else...

  • ESTUPENDO!

  • Magnificent!

  • THE BEST <3 MAGNIFIQUE ! PERFECT !

  • ¡¡BRAVO!!

    Bellísima interpretación.

  • Beautiful ! Basel can be proud of helping Montserrat Caballe to fame. From waitress serving in a cafe to diva.

  • LOVE YOU MONY ! LOVE YOU ! LOVE YOU ! LOVE YOU !

  • DAS ist der Stimmes Kraft!

  • almost perfect! She is great!

  • Classic.

  • Striking estetika! Top performing arts! Great Caballe!

  • probably the most amazing opera singer that has ever lived. Bravo from Russian admirers!

  • @SamaraInUSA -IMHO Anita Cerquetti did this aria just as well.They were both at the very top on this gem.

  • Caballe was 'unique' the days of those great singers are gone. This is the best Voice lesson anybody can have, and remember, this is LI VE

    C.M.

  • This is a BEAUTIFUL and MAGNIFIQUE INTERPRETATION OF CASTA DIVA BY MS. CABALLE. THANKS FOR SHARING IT.

  • Great voice, but so wooden. Not suited to this role, however I do not think that Callas is, unlike the other fools on this comments section. Callas sounded terrible, screeched far too much for my liking.

  • Montserrat is earthly, but ... Maria Callas is our earthly, unreal.

  • 5:03 OMG!! Amazing!

  • Callas, Tebaldi, Caballe, Battle and Durbin - The Best!

  • Incomparable Montserrat !!!!!

  • very beautiful

  • What a technique!!

  • beh, che dire.. what to say.

    Nothing

    she's gorgeous!

    E' fantastica.....

  • she is the best Norma ever!

  • This is magnificent. The effortless perfection thanks to a rigorous technique is something you can only find in her. I must say it was way better than Maria Callas's performance. Callas wanted to conjugate bel canto with her histrionic skills, resulting in dramatically rich pieces, but sacrificing the purity of the arias because of the constant screams she used to do. Montserrat Caballé, on the other hand, sings what she has to sing, reaches the notes she has to reach, all with beautiful art.

  • MONTSERRAT, DE ESTA ARIA HAS HECHO UNA CREACIÓN UNICA Y DIFERENTE, ES SUBLIME Y MELANCOLICA.

  • incredible. strong voice. PERFECT!

    She is so concentrated that she hardy twinkles/ blinks.

    As she is really overweight she is free from doubt to be so popular for anything else but her voice!

    Callas... i ve heard was more loved for the drama than the purity and strength of her voice.

    The may be all good, but this here is def. my favourite! Anyone who has ears!

    Hear for yourself!!! and decide! - I did!

  • she is very good but unfortunately does not reach the levels of divine Maria Callas, and although many say that horse is the sum of Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, Caballe performances but do not show that.

    Callas is unquestionably the best thing that could be in the bel canto opera and the environment.

  • @NACS1989 Well, Caballe you are hated by some callasians vicious-looking dog Why?

  • @rafbilza ... because she is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! I like Callas too, but Caballé That's out of this world even Callas said respect!

  • @rafbilza why are you so mean? I happen to love Callas and her voice, art and singing is still incredible and respected by all thinking and understanding souls in this world, be it from the art world or outside of it. PLUS Caballe herself admired Callas immensely (look at the videos here on youtube where she herself talks about Maria Callas).

  • amazing . 

  • Montserrat - замечательная певица, безупречное сопрано!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Stupenda!

  • I enjoyed it a lot but not as much as Callas or Sills. BTW, who belted her in the eyes? They're black!

  • nothing can translate the emotion of my heart to hear the diva in your voice, chaste, pure and transcendent.

  • Me gusta!!!

  • This is so awesome. I love her! Wow, I wasn't even alive in 1978...

  • Nice, but...

    I so much, much more prefer La Callas' versions.

    It is a different class alltogether.

  • @AnnieThelen14....Women don't have falsetto only men do.

  • @chrisscruzzz That is absolutely not true. Who ever said something like that? Of course they have a falsetto range, it just sounds different because the registers with women are not so far apart from each other than wit men because their mutation is not as big as it is with men.

  • @singingorpheus it's true, only men have falsetto

  • @Maggielicious21: It is not really a discussion we should be having in the name of Mrs. Caballe. So I do apologize to all those who rightfully just came here for that.

    But what else would you call the female "classical" singing voice? Of course it is falsetto. It is not head voice, it is not belt, it is not chest voice. Technically it is falsetto, namely the part of the voice "above the crack" and that is falsetto.

  • @singingorpheus mmmmm i'm gonna give it a chance to the female falsetto, however you are right about having a discussion, i only came here to see Caballe :D

  • The term falsetto is used in the context of singing to refer to a type of vocal phonation that enables the singer to sing notes beyond the vocal range of the normal or modal voice. Caballe is a soprano, right? Casta diva more high note is a high B-Flat. She needs to sing in falsetto?. Would be heard in a opera house Chaste diva in falsetto? Oh! as much tinpot clever !!!

  • @fajamaqui I don't even know what you mean. Falsetto cannot be heard in opera houses? I'm a countertenor and therefore use nothing but falsetto and I do certainly sing opera and am perfectly able to make myself heard.

    And the high note b-flat is certainly not sung in chestvoice, now´, is it - even by the great Caballe!

  • @singingorpheus forget me, freak!

  • @singingorpheus

    I'm a tenor and really am not qualified to say exactly how female voices work, but my impression is that there is a female falsetto but that opera singers don't tend to use it and they more of a head voice like tenors and baritones use - that's connected to the lower tones more than falsetto is. So, if I'm right, the top B flat would not be in "chest" voice, but would still not be falsetto.

  • Greatest Caballe! Love you.

  • linda a música e que bela voz!!

  • she's singing in falsetto, isn't she?

  • GREAAAATT!!!!

  • j'en ai pleuré tellement c'est beau

  • What? no emotion? jajajajajajajajajjaja o my god? are you ok? please Monserrat is musical, her voice is music

  • По сравнению с Каллас несколько грузно и не изящно...

  • Amazing..

  • Splendid!

  • I love you Montse.!

  • Fabulous voice. Absolutely magnificent.

  • Exceptional singer!!!!!! Wonderful music too!!!!Thanks James for shareing. Kisses Perla.

  • One of the very best versions ever recorded. TY James.

  • A musical gem! Thank you!

  • @CanadaPisces

    Great Caballe, one of the best. Thanks, James.

  • This is stone, no emotion. You need to have seen Callas before reaching any conclusions on this.

  • @docboc44 I am also a Callas fan but it is unfair to set one great against the other, they both are great legends better than any modern soprano. There is a vidoe in which Caballe pays tribute to her friend Callas on youtube in which she has tears, it is very moving!

  • Monserrat Caballe is the highest expression of Opera. I can compare her only with Maria Callas. But is also the aria Norma Casta Diva, that is a Gift of Heaven.

  • Grande Grande de Arte. Brava Caballe.