Montserrat Caballe "Pace, pace mio Dio" La Forza del destino

[RodrigoBeauvoir]

I really love Caballé's voice, but this performance was terrible.

[superbafun]

La adoro, pero aquí se ve que está un poco enferma, no era muy buena época...Me encanta escucharla con esa edad cantando esto...

[KILLERADVICE]

The color of the voice is still marvellous but her vocal skills are now not enough to face this aria : it is a strange rendition, very interesting on a technical aspect.

[TheWisemonkey8]

@KILLERADVICE Be quiet! This woman has sung everything from the heroines of Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi… Turandot… Wagner… the list goes on. Good grief… you try to sing this music.

[montsyblackmadonna]

Montserrat Caballe the voice of the ages,this performance is very good considering the poor sound quality and picture,and the fact that she is way past her prime hear,

I am glad to tell those people who keep trying to pick this video to death,

she sounds 10 times better here than most of the singers in their 20s,30s, & 40s singing Pace Pace today.

[MaCaCoGa]

@montsyblackmadonna What a poor video quality and sound?

[montsyblackmadonna]

@MaCaCoGa Yes, but I still enjoy it! God Bless!

[lilytoka]

Love it,love it,love it!

[marylambcarter]

brava

[opera75frfr]

Evidemment ce n'est plus la grande grande époque. Mais remarquez que dès 78, pour sa prise de rôle à la Scala, l'aigi final piano était parfois problématique: il est loupé puis rattrapé dans l'extrait you tube, il est parfait magique dans l'intégrale publique que j'ai. Mais même en 86, si nous liassons de côté cette note piano ou pas, quel timbre, le beau style.

[Leandro999ful]

Grandiosa !

[Dymension]

Hey what's your problem? I said it was a fine performance, but not her best. There is Vienna 1979 gala, La Scala 1978 full performance and there is a Carnegie Hall around 1980 where she wears a white gown and her ring sparkles on the high Bb pianissimo. All three of those performances are better than this one, but this is late in her career.

[Giovannilinverno]

Even wonderful singers like Caballé are only human. In this particular clip something seems to go wrong with her breathing (around 4:09) and maybe that's why she misses the pianissimo and has to alter the note. It then obviously doesn't come out the way she intended.

[Dymension]

Definitely not her best, but fine nonetheless.

[kalpubinc]

Caballe knows so well how to used her head tones (resonate chamber), thus it is a seeming effortless singing

[LohengrinT]

Well, a true actress would have seen that in her last "glorious a la Callas movement" (after having swallowed half of the consonants this aria contains :p) the dress gets up and her feet show smth that had the opposite result from what she intended (made me laugh)

-It was a Curse! when they tried to be dramatic they ended up causing laughs :p

[lungdoc]

Awesome but not her best version of this aria in my view at least. She missed the pianissimo " in van la PAce). Can somebody load up her version sung in Carnegie Hall (mid 80's) conducted by Levine and done w/o orch. rehearsal. That one was simply perfect. I was told she came on the Concorde just for that PBS appearance, the MC was Sills.

[tenornmd]

One measure of a great singer is his or her ability to navigate the music successfully over time. Mme Caballe was a real master!

[InBoccaChiusa]

She's far from her best here, taking her usual (by this time) liberties with the words (the first fatalità suffers the most), and unable to produce her heavenly pianissimi. However, as mentioned, this is La Caballé. In live performance, she is in top form in the performance at the Teatro del Liceo de Barcelona. January 31, 1979. In m view, that performance is better than the one in her commercial recording for RCA. I say, brava!

[TheWisemonkey8]

I love the way she moves she can work that audience :). Lacking in a few areas but this is La Caballe we can let her way with it. The greatest soprano of the

20th century. Kind and warm regards,