Montserrat Caballe - Tosca and Maria Callas

Montserrat Caballe talks about her Tosca at Covent Garden (Maria's old production) and her relationship with Maria Callas shortly before Callas' death.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Montserrat
• Caballe
• Maria
• Callas
• Puccini
• Tosca
• Covent
• Garden

[ditogam]

I'm delight, I'm nearly in tears after watching this. Thank YOU SO MUCH !!!!

[Drelnis]

Thanks, pleasure's mine :)

[Aspett0]

This is a great testimony, thank you for posting it !!

[Drelnis]

First!

Thanks, I'm glad you like it :)

[psoreleno]

Sabes! dejandnos ver la entrevista completa. Anda vamos, compartenos toda la entrevista

[psoreleno]

Maria Callas una mujer genial, Pero Montserrat Caballé extraordinaria mujer de entrañables sentimientos.

[arvedsin]

Que mujer mas ADORABLE!!

[RonaldBarone]

I dont know why but I cried. Is hard to find someone can talks about Callas like a normal person, so we know who she really was. Callas always said that ppl exaggerated everything she did. And Montserrat just proved that it is true. She was amazing, but above all she was a human being

[hernandocarvalho]

her interpretation in 1:15 is.... wow



[edengirl17]

It is lovely hearing her talk in Spanish! Me encanta! Grande Caballe!

[PapagenoHannover]

Not only a great singer, a wonderful humanbeing. Humble, noble and warmhearted

[calaftheeast]

@calaftheeast

... it kills something in me every time I hear it. You feel her pain, you think about her angst and protest, you hear her sadness. It is beyond comprehension. It is almost the aria she sang which was about her life.

Her high note at the end is filled with emotion, simply unmatched.

Vissi D'Arte, luckily, is performed by many of the greats. Actually, by almost everyone and how great is that! Everyone brings in something new and enthralling to it.

[calaftheeast]

Vissi D'Arte is such an aria. It speaks to everyone. Yes, Tosca is complaining in it, but not in an irritating fashion. It is heartbreakingly honest and pure.

Caballe's rendering is flawless. The grace, poise and breath control are all exemplary. My fave Sutherland also recorded it, even if she is not associated with Puccini, and it too is glorious. Her golden honeyed voice is made for this aria. But Callas... my God, her Tosca is so heartpiercing, so human and powerful, that....