Montserrat Caballé - Massenet - Le Cid - Madrid - 1989

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« Pleurez mes yeux.. », Jules Massenet, Le Cid, Madrid, Concert pour la Croix Rouge et la Fondation José Carreras contre la leucémie/ Red Cross and José Carreras Foundation against leukaemia Concert, 7/01/1989.

Spanish National Orchestra / José Collado Antonio Ros-Marbá.

José Carreras (même concert/same concert): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b16rYEnEt6k
Duo Caballé-Carreras: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy4NmTXQW9c
Retransmission TV Espagnole / Spanish TV broadcast.
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De cet affreux combat je sors l'âme brisée!
Mais enfin je suis libre et je pourrai du moins
Soupirer sans contrainte et souffrir sans témoins.

Pleurez! pleurez mes yeux! tombez triste rosée
Qu'un rayon de soleil ne doit jamais tarir!
S'il me reste un espoir, c'est de bientôt mourir!
Pleurez mes yeux, pleurez toutes vox larmes! pleurez mes yeux!

Mais qui donc a voulu l'éternité des pleurs?
O chers ensevelis, trouvez-vous tant de charmes à léguer
aux vivants d'implacables douleurs?
Hélas! je me souviens, il me disait:
Avec ton doux sourire...
Tu ne saurais jamais conduire
Qu'aux chemins glorieux ou qu'aux sentiers bénis!

Ah! mon père! Hélas!
Pleurez! pleurez mes yeux!
Tombez triste rosée
Qu'un rayon de soleil ne doit jamais tarir!
Pleurez mes yeux!
Ah! pleurez toutes vos larmes! pleurez mes yeux!
Ah! pleurez!

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  • I don't know if this is awful, all over the place, sung with bad french etc., I would gladly pay two or three or four times to hear Caballe doing that than what people pay now for full recitals of todays leading singers.

  • Aw, shucks, y'all--cut the great lady some slack. By this point, she's in the 4th decade of a career plagued by ill health. And while it is an autumnal assumption of a difficult role, it's not that bad. Besides, the clip's sound quality isn't good. Check out her later recording of this air--it's better.

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  • It's awkward...

  • Je me demande ce qu'écoutent les personnes qui disent "awfull": soit le français (quoique...) soit un ou deux coups de glotte. Mais...la voix, l'intensité, le timbre...Dites-moi qui, qui qui aujourd'hui pour cela? Dans cet air qui n'est pas forcément pour elle, j'ai entendu Caballé avec piano ou orchestre: c'est monumental!

  • Of course, her french has always been awful.

    Of course, this aria is not for her voice (and not for Renata Scotto too)

    But for the first time with this terrible aria, she succeeds in giving emotion and movement and she sings well most of the low notes: she really did her best.

    So not marvellous at all but quite good, i think...

    You will find many others performances of this aria by Caballé which are really uninteresting.

  • Its not only her, she actualy speaks notbad frech but woman dont tend to concentrate in her student time in been clear with words etc

  • Wow, dissapointing performance from the lady of vocal control. She was a little all over the place with terrible French. The only part I found in the aria which utilised the extensive emotion required was the final phrase where she used a full chest voice, powerful, and a risk worth taking.

  • So Beautiful!

    I love her!

  • Wow. I was waiting someone to put this video a long time ago. Thankssssss thanksss!

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