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MONSERRAT CABALLE TO GIVE CONCERT IN ARMENIA IN JUNE
12:15 ~U 12.04.13
World's most famous soprano Monserrat Caballe is celebrating today
her 80th birthday anniversary. According to tvkultura.ru, she will
celebrate her birthday with her family.
In few months she will start a concert tour. In June she will give
a concert in Armenia, then in Germany and Russia.
María de Montserrat Bibiana Concepcion Caballe i Folch was born in
Barcelona and studied music at the Liceu Conservatory, and singing
technique with Napoleone Annovazzi, Eugenia Kemeny and Conchita Badía.
She graduated with a gold medal in 1954.
Caballe's international breakthrough came in 1965 when she substituted
for an indisposed Marilyn Horne in a semi-staged performance of
Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at New York's Carnegie Hall, which
earned her a 25-minute standing ovation.[2] While this was her first
engagement in a bel canto opera and she had to learn the role in
less than one month, her performance made her famous throughout the
opera world. Later that year, Caballe made her debut atGlyndebourne
singing her first Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier
and portraying the role of Countess Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage
of Figaro.
Armenian News - Tert.am
12:15 ~U 12.04.13
World's most famous soprano Monserrat Caballe is celebrating today
her 80th birthday anniversary. According to tvkultura.ru, she will
celebrate her birthday with her family.
In few months she will start a concert tour. In June she will give
a concert in Armenia, then in Germany and Russia.
María de Montserrat Bibiana Concepcion Caballe i Folch was born in
Barcelona and studied music at the Liceu Conservatory, and singing
technique with Napoleone Annovazzi, Eugenia Kemeny and Conchita Badía.
She graduated with a gold medal in 1954.
Caballe's international breakthrough came in 1965 when she substituted
for an indisposed Marilyn Horne in a semi-staged performance of
Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at New York's Carnegie Hall, which
earned her a 25-minute standing ovation.[2] While this was her first
engagement in a bel canto opera and she had to learn the role in
less than one month, her performance made her famous throughout the
opera world. Later that year, Caballe made her debut atGlyndebourne
singing her first Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier
and portraying the role of Countess Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage
of Figaro.
Armenian News - Tert.am