Montserrat Caballe "Spargi d'amaro pianto" Lucia

1976

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Opera
• Donizetti
• Lucia
• di
• Lamermoor
• Montserrat
• Caballe

[andrecueca]

she was...and i looove callas...but i get so mad when people show how narrow minded they are thinking that the only good way to sing a role is the way callas did....but i love her and she is one of the tops...so is caballe

[babydrane]

well she is certainly portraying madness...beyond that...

[will1074]

io adoro la Caballe ma non era questo il suo ruolo, anche se se la cava...però lei era la regina dei filati, dei pianissimo, delle arie d'amore che abilmente rendeva raffinate e le note alte non erano il suo forte, anche se qui aveva ancora voce..i suoi ruoli erano altri...

[amiciopera]

Lucia, is a walk over to Norma, and She did not have a problem singing Norman and the great mount everest of Aria, Casta Diva plus the cabeletta, with uttermost flexability and sheer accuracy.. the best voice that ever sang Norma, "I said the best voice" Callas #1 Sutherland #2 Cabellè#3. the same voice you sing Lucia with you need to double that to sing Norma, Norma has high notes, low notes, long phrases, the coloratura, seemless legato the Drama the text. rethink again

Ciao

[GeorgiNM]

To say it isn't screamy and "lungey" would be far from true. But I can't help myself from being in awe... kill me... What I find really addictive is the absolutely insane high C, and when it is hurled over Chorus at the end (and quite a chorus it, is, this is Donizetti at his most magisterial) the effect is of unbridled, cataclysmic folly... Unorthodox perhaps, but she has a golden alibi here - it's a Mad Scene, THE Mad Scene. Loooooove it!

[OperaMystery80]

Not many operaphiles like Caballe's Lucia but this was quite beautiful. I love that high note from 3:22 - 3:28.. She was definitely the right fach/voice type for the role; but her sound was too robust and for all her great technique & experience singing Donizetti & bel canto (Bolena, Stuarda, Lucrezia, Deveraux, Puritani, Norma, Pirata,) she doesn't sound like the romantic, youthful, fragile, ill Lucia. Caballe's good health doesn't match Lucia's mad character.

[barmanjoe]

Great sublime voice, I'm just not sure I was ever that keen on the thrill which in her case was a bit of a bleet.

[yunshanwanli]

Brava！

[jmiller05]

Caballe is very sharp here, and her top notes are fighting against the vocal weight required for this role. Make no mistake, this is a heavy, heavy role. You need agility and a powerful upper register. Caballe has agility in pianissimo, but not for soaring forte notes like this requires.

[MrAndredekock]

A job well done, but really not for her voice. She becomes a bit too strident and she is so good in other roles that really suit her voice, like Medea and Norma.

[IroNSol88]

She is Goddess!