#Montserrat Caballé

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Best of Lohengrin O's opera clip titles

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Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé

Barcelona (1988)

[heavypedia]

Lançado em 10 de outubro de 1988, Barcelona é um álbum colaborativo entre o vocalista Freddie Mercury e a cantora de ópera espanhola Montserrat Caballé. O álbum traz em seu tracklist faixas como "How Can I Go On", "The Golden Boy" e a faixa-título, que foram os singles.

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[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

"I love music and she is the music!"

- Freddie Mercury

Happy Birthday Montserrat, wherever you are...❤

📸 October 8th, 1988 - Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé performed three songs (playback) by the Magic Fountain on Montjuic at a music festival "La Nit", which celebrated the arrival of the Olympic flag from the Seoul games to Barcelona

📸 Credit Photo Mirrorpix

- Spanish operatic soprano

Barcelona 12 April 1933 -

Barcelona 6 October 2018

[lunamikk69]

'While he was singing I noticed his eyes shiny with tears. I gave him my hand, he clasped it. It was clear he was aware of his own fate. It was his goodbye at least to the stage'

[anghraine]

The poll post got me thinking that it'd be fun to update one of them. I only have access to my phone at the moment, so I'm going for the easy option:

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Montserrat Caballé (1933-2018) solo Songs: "Sola, perduta abbondonata," "In Qual Eccessi, O Numi" Propaganda: see visual

Tina Weymouth (1950-) Talking Heads - bass guitar Songs: "Psycho Killer," "Take Me to the River" Propaganda: see visual

Visual Propaganda for Montserrat Caballé:

Visual Propaganda for Tina Weymouth:

[shitalunya6x9shitugal]

🇪🇸 “He presumido siempre de ser Española allá por donde he ido y he interpretado zarzuelas siempre que he podido. Cantar en castellano cuando estoy lejos de casa es algo que me llena de una gran emoción”.

Montserrat Caballé

📷 El País

@dragonesdelaemperatriz

[ultra-francesca-mercury]

On 24 March 1987, at the Hotel Ritz in Barcelona, Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé met for the first time.

[teaforqne]

THIS FUCKING SONG IS WHAT HEAVEN SOUNDS LIKE!!!!!!

I love you Montserrat, I love you Freddie, thank you infinitely for this masterpiece

[izzy-b-hands]

Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé - Barcelona (Live at Ku Club Ibiza, 1987)

[freddie-mercury-rising]

Hi, just want to share a thought I just had. Freddie's performance with Montserrat is beautiful but at the same time so so so sad. (maybe because it was his last performance?) I want to cry every time I watch it. I feel sad because the world lost a brilliant artist, he still had a lot to show...

Yes! I think it’s such a beautiful moment of two beautiful musicians coming together in such a lovely way. I love their mutual respect and the way they simply seemed to adore one another.

And Freddie’s dreams came true when Montserrat agreed to sing his music. What an amazing feeling that must have been for him.

Also, may I recommend a lovely (but sad) Montsy and Freddie fic?

Those Beautiful Dreams That We Shared by @plainxte

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[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today, on 10th October, 1988

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, UK - Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé host 'Barcelona' album launch

👉 Reached number 25, on chart for 4 weeks

🔸“'Barcelona' was an example of the high musical talent of Freddie.

He was not only a popular singer, he was a musician, that could sit at the piano and compose.

He discovered a new way to bring different music styles together.

He is the first and only person to have done this”

- Montserrat Caballé

(1933-2018)

[my-jokes-are-my-armour]

Queen was my first artistic hyperfixation. I discovered the group when I was 7, literally the day Freddie Mercury died. They were speaking of him at the television all day, and they were passing the music. I was mesmerised. But I was little and I didn't follow this thread... yet.

A few years later, the album Made in Heaven was released and again we had many emissions about Queen and I was older and more aware of my own tastes in music. So I asked for my parents to have a cassette of the group for christmas.

I listened to this album over and over and over but then I moved out for a few years, catching up with some music of "my time". It didn't last long, I fell back in the rabbit hole of Queen rapidly. And for years it didn't stop.

At home, we had a trimestrial music budget. We sat around the table and we had 2 album per person on a catalogue. And I build my collection of Queen album out of this. My first ask was the two greatest hits and then, from them I asked for the albums around it.

The solo albums from the members came late on that list. And I remember quite emotionally about Barcelona... because it was mixing two (sometimes more than two) universes that we usually didn't picture going together, at that time. And fusion of the genres is one thing that I enjoy a lot in my musical journey. Who can find a resume of some of that here on my "journey to Joey Batey" 😅.

Here are some rare videos of the show. And I put two of them for display.

The first one is Barcelona. This is the overture song, joining the powers of rock god and a classical goddess in the nicest way. The music, my friend. The music ! Bloody hell, every nuances, mouvements, variations in this short piece... I can't even 🥰

And this one is for the variations and the shifts of genre. The dramaturgy, the hopes... And also, for a very brief moment at the end, Freddie Mercury goes full classical technique in his singing with Montserrat Caballé. And f.ck yeah !

Also, what a sunshine that woman was on stage. Funnily enough, Freddie is the one that linked most of the things with his voice, as in constrast she stayed in her register all along, but she is the one that linked the artists by the way she is sharing the vibe, loving every musical styles and fusions all the way. You can tell that Freddie is nervous here in constrast. And in a way, she settled him down in the moment.

They are beautiful.

I only had the audio of that before. This is so great to see their chemistry on tape 🥰.

This is what I wanted to shared with you today. Simply something beautiful.

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Montserrat Caballé talks about Freddie Mercury and the song Barcelona