Montserrat Caballé - Beyond MusicDVD9 - PAL - 16:9 - All Regions - PCM, Dolby Digital 5.1 - 98min.
Subtitles: English, French, Italian
Euroarts 2005
Actors: Marilyn Horne, Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Joan Dorneman, Cheryl Studer, Samuel Ramey, Mstislav Rostropovich, Giuseppe di Stefano, Joan Sutherland, and more.
This 90 minute documentary was made for Catalonian Television by Antonio Farré in 2003 and has been shown in Europe, but not in the US, if I'm not mistaken. It is a detailed, loving, and well written and filmed musical biography of the great Spanish soprano. It is filled with clips from performances all over the world, starting with black & white film from Salle Pleyel in 1965 and up to 2002.
Caballé is interviewed extensively in a number of different settings and she tells us, touchingly, of her family's commitment to her early training and of the largesse of a Barcelona family who funded her studies (and much more) when the family's money ran out. She traces her career from her first professional job in Basle and Bremen, her début in her home theater, the Liceu in Barcelona to her triumphs in the greatest opera houses in the world. There are some thrilling musical clips. Particularly so are those of her and Marilyn Horne singing the duet from 'Semiramide' (breathtakingly beautiful) and a performance by Caballé at the Theâtre Antique in Orange of 'Casta diva' in what may be the most stunning performance of it I've ever heard
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