Word: caballe
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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Her whole broad frame shakes when she laughs, and she laughs a lot. She says that she would love to play Salome swathed in seven veils, and laughs as she explains why she won't. "Because of this!" she says, patting her midriff. No matter. Svelte or swelling, Spanish...
Last week Caballé was cast in a role more befitting her regally commanding figure: Queen Elizabeth in the American Opera Society's concert version of Roberto Devereux, a recently resurrected Donizetti opera that is absurdly complex in its amorous entanglements but brimming with singable music. Her extended, melting...
Out of Nowhere. Lest this excitement be dissipated by fretting in the dressing room, Caballé likes to delay her arrival at the theater until a few minutes before curtain time. Then, "before 1 have time to think about it-pfft! I jump right in there." Last April, seemingly from...
Though she has had a successful career in Europe, Caballé came to the U.S. as an unknown. This was largely because she had made only one recording, and because she refuses to confine her repertory to her most flattering roles. At 32, she has already mastered a remarkable 46...
Sun, Ruby, Rose. "I was born black, almost strangled by the umbilical cord," she says. "Maybe that is why I have such good lung power." It is why she was christened Montserrat. Her mother, fearing for the life of her black-faced baby, prayed to the Virgin of the nearby...