Caballe & Horne ~ Semiramide - fabulous!!

The Dynamic Duo in full Drag.

[@philipkoch6811]

I heard these two ladies sing Semiramide four times in San Francisco in the late seventies. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle did the production. It was sensational. It was a dreamcast. Samuel ramey was the bass. Luis Lima was the magnificent lyric tenor. I thought I had died and gone to heaven

[@dircedallasta2700]

Favolose ❤

[@RBP1963]

Legendary both with a final rendition from Horne to Caballé and viceversa, really humble people❤

[@davidwelch8288]

Their great friendship was a rarity between two female opera singers. Horne said in an interview that she retired the role of Arsace several years before this, but Caballe asked her to return to the role for her (for Cablalle) So what did Horne do? She did what any great friend would do. She returned to it for Caballe. And thank god she did !!! This is one of the great recorded Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano duets that so many of us get to enjoy over and over. Every time I watch this I am blown away at the perfection and stunning precision. And the applause while they hug and bow never ceases to make my tear up. The look on Caballe's face when she looks at Horne and holds back her own tears, then kisses Horne's hand is truly priceless. The other priceless reaction to the audience's applause is of course after Leontyne Price's aria O Patria Mia at her Met farewell performance of Aida. 💖💖💖

[@pierrederomanet2554]

Vues à Paris voilà plus de 30 ans… un souvenir inoubliable! Deux sacrées interprètes et voix sublimes

[@vincentmancini6279]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Never again voices like that. Thank you for sharing.

[@marvalstith2749]

Thanks to Montserrat's gracious collaboration with the love of my current days, Freddie Mercury, I now enjoy learning how to appreciate opera. I am grateful. This is beautiful to my novice ears and eyes!

[@johnpickford4222]

Yeah, buck toothed Freddie Mercury, opera’s unknown opera singer.

[@wellsmark5356]

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[@jonathanmiller5621]

@Wells Mark Instablaster =)

[@sihingfr]

I think the opera world owns a great debt to Mercury & Caballe. They broke walls between both styles and opened the most elitist to the general public. Some could learn from their humility and sincere mutual respect - both thought at first that they weren't good enough to sing with the other. That tells a lot.

[@gcmacyman]

What a superb collaboration. Horne's rich distinctive mezzo voice and Caballe's joyful soprano voice. Excellent

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Two extraordinarily talented singers. I love to listen to them.

[@lz43p15]

This performance will remain in the istory of the melodramma. Three gigants, Caballe, Horne and Rossini. How could Rossini compose such a music how these two singers could sing like that? I have not word.

[@josedelgado1572]

Who could sing such a career from 50s to 2001 last opera and then still go on recitals - Only one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@johnpickford4222]

JOAN SUTHERLAND??

[@edwardcaulfield67]

@@johnpickford4222 the queen of mushy sound

[@marksmith3947]

@@edwardcaulfield67 Sutherland was a wonderful singer before she gave up diction

[@Flyghumlan9]

They look so pretty they sing so lovely they are so lovely

[@Flyghumlan9]

the cutest couple in the world of opera

[@MrStpendouslvforjo]

The very ending with the applause when they hugged was incredibly cute!

[@barbaranorthwood]

A lovely moment.

[@mariajosemas8682]

Una Semiramide única, prodigiosa e inolvidable más una Marilyn Horne impecable. Dos grandes!!!

[@billtregoning6308]

I was in the audience for this performance. The Deco neo classical costumes were by Pier Luigi Pizzi...and really wonderful. Horne had lifts in her boots, and got a kick out of stomping around! You simply couldn't ask for greater interpretations than from these two stars!

[@phedrob3735]

Please tell me where this took place

[@rigsf5969]

@@phedrob3735 I don't know where this video is from but I saw this production in San Francisco. I think the production was done in several opera houses.

[@adamolorenzetti9433]

@@phedrob3735 1980 Aix en Province

[@80Mrmirko]

Due colossi della storia della musica! Si percepisce la loro grande amicizia nel canto ancorché nell’abbraccio finale. Insieme danno vita ad un’eufonia davvero magica......

[@laprimmadonna2341]

Pues, esta es una de las óperas que no se encuentran en el repertorio actual. Y mejor, porque no hay quien cante esto como debe ser y honre la memoria del maravilloso Rossini. Fantástica Caballe, quizás la última de las cantantes belcantista. Bella esta porción de esta ópera que es de una música hermosa. Muchas gracias

[@rafaellmata6083]

Asi es, hay piezas como esta que no son repesentadas por falta de voces que honren las partituras. Asi fue décadas atrás.

[@Antonio-qm3bi]

​@@rafaellmata6083 armida...

[@Flyghumlan9]

Love lives of seeing love. So I look at this now and then, to keep my soul in good health. Thank you, Divas!

[@jplhomme8573]

l'Aix-en-Provence des grandes années !!!!!!! merci medames les artistes.....

[@tommydenzio]

Bravo Rossini first . Bravas for Caballe and Horne

[@luismarianogarcia9215]

Woah to think we had this moment with them two and to be able to extrapolate their voices....incredible

[@haydenwayne3710]

Two magnificent instruments!!!!

[@giancarlobelloni5725]

Grandi amiche, insieme hanno fatto cose meravigliose! Voci stupende. Adesso il nulla!

[@jeanemile3702]

fantastic

[@longhorngal9498]

I would love to see the whole performance, this opera has so much fantastic music. They were wonderful together. Rossini sung like this is magical ❤

[@mirjamdevries9376]

The whole opera is on youtube : is of 1980.

[@ursulafischer2796]

Ich war sehr berührt, ob der Geste von Frau Caballe. Musik verbindet die, die sie ausführen und die, die sie geniessen.

[@pascalnuevayork]

This Semiramide version is one of the best Rossini 's masterpieces ever

[@gerardmignon700]

C'est trop, trop beau, trop parfait, trop tout. Sublime.

[@robertc2093]

Gérard Mignon (

[@giovanniarioli3021]

La rai produceva ste cose, ora ballivo e venier

[@utton12]

@@giovanniarioli3021 no, è il Festival di Aix en Provence e il "Théâtre des Champs Élysées" nel 1980 credo. Potrebbe essere in produzione anche la Rai? ??? Vorrei trovare la registrazione completa. Qualcuno può aiutarmi.

[@phedrob3735]

Am I awake or still sleeping and just dreaming that anyone can reach this state of perfection?

[@xavierluceno7006]

Estas mujeres son maravillosas. Las amo !!!

[@user-wl1mv9ok1h]

Божественное исполнение и музыка

[@rosy3385]

Inoubliables ces deux voix-là !

[@utton12]

J'ai assisté à cet incroyable Semiramide à Aix et à Paris.. Je ne pourrais jamais oublier. La distribution entière était remarquable. J'en ai encore des frissons.

[@rosy3385]

@@utton12 je vous crois volontiers avec de telles voix !!! Merci pour votre commentaire !

[@luismarianogarcia9215]

Woah Montserrat Caballé, she's unique. And it'snot Catalan pride talking

[@robert111k]

She used to call herself Spanish, but you, nazionalists, know better, of course.

[@johnpickford4222]

If it’s not Catalan pride talking, who is?

[@JacquelineLanceTenor]

What does Catalan pride have to do with her being a good singer/performer? Lol

[@astridgunkel2230]

Pouwer Duo........absolut!!!!!Tolle Leistung!!!!!!Wunderbar!!!!!!🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵😚😚😚😚😚🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼Goldener Notenschlüssel von mir🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼💎💎💎💎💎

[@gerpoels9935]

RESPECT, First: you have to work so HARD to reach this level of singing. Second: I bet these wonderful amazing diva's have been laughing so HARD the first time they saw each other in these costumes that it took half an hour before they could sing a note again. A blonde Caballé and Mrs Horne never has been so grandly armored in whatever Semiramide she appeared in. Third: The applause is the respect for their HARD working throughout the years and when they hug ........dude, I cried. ♥

[@lyndasleep4838]

Absolutely. I couldn't bring myself to watch this for a year or so because of the hideous blond wig but the gloroius music won in the end.

[@johnpickford4222]

Agree. But it is one butt ugly fucking production that looks more like crap Vivaldi than an opera set in ancient Babylon by Rossini. The only value to the ‘blond’ wigs is to prove a biological connection? Who knows?

[@judyjones2475]

@@lyndasleep4838 oh me too, I thought ,I cant watch this ,its hideous 🤣💞💓

[@danawinsor1380]

@@johnpickford4222 I pretty much agree with you, but, what is "crap Vivaldi?"

[@brunopicaude3092]

@@lyndasleep4838 But the paradox is that those costumes are so extreme that they participate to fix the legend of those mythic representations in the collective memory.

[@9e557]

Aix en Provence, 1980.

[@user-hi1nf5hn6n]

Абсолютное совершенство!!!

[@antoniorogerjustafre4019]

Dos DIOSAS

[@hankaustin7091]

Are there any mezzos around today that have the incredible sound of Marilyn Horne? Nope, none come to mind... sad... her high notes are just as amazing as her fabulous low notes!

[@dennisdeemii]

Jamie Barton kicks ass. Zajik is cool too.

[@baritonebynight]

The good news is that Ms. Horne is very much still active as a teacher to young singers.

[@luanllluan]

@@baritonebynight teaching then to sing in the mask

[@franciscochueca9086]

Ya no hay cantantes de este nivel.

[@opalhearst4227]

Stephanie Blythe

[@voceangelo]

God, they don't make divas like this anymore. Oher than the incredible vocalism, their 'grazia' is overwhelming. I live for these two grande dames.

[@dennisdeemii]

yes they do. they're names are Jamie Barton, Tamara Wilson, and Angela Meade.

[@xxsaruman82xx87]

@@dennisdeemii Caballe is far better than all of them, including Horne.

[@johnpickford4222]

Dennis Deem: Who??

[@johnpickford4222]

XxSaruman82xX: NOT JOAN SUTHERLAND. Caballe was an irresponsible singer who never took recording her greatest roles very seriously and was often careless with those she did.

[@judyjones2475]

@@xxsaruman82xx87 oh you are so right ,caballe the best soprano ever 💞💓💗

[@joeygodin8861]

Sheer perfection! I love this production and the production the following year in San Francisco. The costumes are another thing lol.

[@harrylampiris2554]

My first opera performance in San Francisco 1981. I was 21. I’ll never forget it,,

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

M,ARAVILLOSO DUO

[@ritackrupa3318]

Best rendition that I have heard so far 💕

[@cyrus1566]

Una maravilla !

[@sschimel]

Gorgeous.

[@claudinevoirain5945]

sublime

[@valeriebrotons1394]

From the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, 1980 !

[@Flyghumlan9]

pure pleasure listening to

[@giovanniarioli3021]

Horne perfetta, montserrat libera

[@carlocolombo5799]

Giovanni Arioli. Che vuol dire con "libera"?

[@rudolphviquez7867]

THEY ARE 2 OF THE MOST FAMOUS DIVAS WE HAVE TODAY GREATERS VOICES!

[@cappycapuzi1716]

what a fabulous hoot this is!

[@sopranosd]

Wow. This is the stuff.

[@joerghockemeyer7451]

Wundervoll!

[@giovanniarioli2971]

Superbe, assolute, incomparabili

[@didierdehove4614]

Quand le Festival d'Aix reviendra-t-il à ces sommets de l'Art Lyrique ?

[@gerardmignon700]

Quand les chanteurs seront eux-mêmes parfaits. Ça n'est pas avec des netrebko que nous sommes sortis d'affaire.

[@user-dj6iz1tp1p]

Браво!!!

[@paules3437]

Ghost from Christmas Past....

[@joaquintermes2854]

La excelencia

[@torrellarobert7174]

J'ai vu cette version a Aix-en-Provence... Je n'oublierai jamais.

[@paules3437]

Horne's got a Dr. Seuss head piece feather!

[@paules3437]

It takes plenty of courage to sing those parts but at least as much to stand on that narrow section of the stage in those costumes!

[@user-jt4js7ed3e]

Люблю.

[@arnoldamaral7406]

pellets excuse me I use the microphone when I make a comment.CABALLE was incredible. her and Marilyn Horne sang very well together. at one point Maria Callas if she had a successor and she waited a while and thought deeply and she said well perhaps only CABALLE. on many occasions Maria or tell her what not to sing nabucco was one roll cuz she told her never too soon it would ruin her voice. after CABALLE perform Norma Maria Callas the great diva gave her a pair of diamond earrings to where every time she saying Norma.CABALLE never wore the earrings when she's singing or not she felt that she was not worthy because there was only one Maria Callas they loved each other dearly. excuse any typos. you're Opera listening friend take care.

[@xxsaruman82xx87]

Horne is bad. So masky and nasal.

[@lyndasleep4838]

Think you'll find that they weren't diamonds but the ones she herself wore to sing Norma. I've seen a photo of them somewhere. She was effectively 'passing on the baton'. Caballe treasured them but could never bring herself to wear them.

[@baritonebynight]

@@xxsaruman82xx87 LOL. You sound like Queen Jeremy. Ms. Horne is amazing...and anyone who matters thinks so.

[@xxsaruman82xx87]

@@baritonebynight Yeah, no, LOL

[@SymphonyBrahms]

@@xxsaruman82xx87 Horne is perfection. One of the great mezzos. There are no great mezzos today. And there are no great sopranos.

[@johnznidarsic6292]

Wow!

[@Bivolari]

I had no idea Babylonians were blond and such good eaters. Vocally, these two do the music proud.

[@GeorgiNM]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahaahah

[@Lellobeetle]

What skinny sopranos sound like these two titans?

[@shirleyrombough8173]

@@dennisdeemii It's the music, idiots. They are perfect. (I'm not calling you an idiot, Dennis. It's the critics of these divas who are the targets of my disapproval).

[@shirleyrombough8173]

@@dennisdeemii There was a soprano, Deborah Vaught, I think, who was large. I believe she was a Wagnerian soprano. She was warned that if she did not lose weight she would lose the role for which she was hired. She couldn't or wouldn't and the powers that be fired her and hired someone else. I always thought that it was a great injustice. Mmes Horne and Caballe did not seem to endure the same fate and the opera world did not seem to suffer because of it.

[@dennisdeemii]

@@shirleyrombough8173 I was so sad about deborah voigt. She got weight loss surgery and her voice is now destroyed.

[@christanell8253]

BRAVI !

[@harammetal]

SEMIRAMIDE E un guerrier qual tu sei di quest'impero È il più nobil sostegno... e tu... già sei... (Freno, per poco ancora, affetti miei.) (Marcata) Serbami ognor sì fido Il cor, gli affetti tuoi, E tutto sperar puoi, E tutto avrai da me. ARSACE (con entusiasmo) A te sacrai, Regina, La fede, il cuore, il brando: Vinsi per te pugnando; Saprò morir per te. SEMIRAMIDE (con tenerezza) No: tu per me vivrai... ARSACE (con foco) Ah! se mi leggi in core... SEMIRAMIDE Tu dunque!.. ARSACE Ah! sappi omai... M'arde il più vivo amore... SEMIRAMIDE (con espressione) Spera, sì bell'ardore Oggi otterrà mercé. SEMIRAMIDE e ARSACE Alle più care immagini Di pace e di contento Già s'abbandona l'anima In così bel momento: E fra i più dolci palpiti Ritorna a respirar.

[@jordipanadesribera6890]

Brave !!

[@caseyfranco3959]

❤🤩😍👌👍=for Caballe ONLY

[@johnpickford4222]

FUCK 🤘FUCK 🤘FUCK 🤘FUCK 💔⚰️🪓🐀🦨👎🏻 = for Casey Franco ALWAYS.

[@Melchezidicque]

[@michaelziegler21]

Rather reminds this fan of couple of Gojira stepping around Tokyo. Then, there is the VERY different articulation.

[@christophesingio9801]

Caballé est unique, mais Horne est malgré cela un peu, très peu, encore plus unique.

[@zauberfee4389]

Beide zu hören und zu sehen ei e gute Ervänzung

[@giovanniarioli2971]

Montserrat ha iniziato la sua carriera per una indisposizione della Home come Lucrezia. Se sei unica non hai paura delle altri uniche

[@rafaellmata6083]

Aveva già iniziato la sua carriera a Brema. con l'indisposizione di Horne, divenne famoso nel mondo. prima era già un po' famoso in Europa.

[@annarel]

ROSSINI!!!

[@johnpickford4222]

Are you certain?? Sounds like they’re making it up as they go.

[@annarel]

@@johnpickford4222 This is the peculiarity of Belcanto!

[@rrgallo967]

Where?'when?

[@sergiosergio8095]

1979 Aix en Provence france

[@jamesnickoloff6692]

When and where was this performance?

[@LAPO5511]

What act are they in?

[@paules3437]

Where and when is this?

[@utton12]

no, è il Festival di Aix en Provence e il "Théâtre des Champs Élysées" nel 1980 credo. Potrebbe essere in produzione anche la Rai? ??? Vorrei trovare la registrazione completa. Qualcuno può aiutarmi.

[@lloantes]

Existe una grabación de esta representación en Aix en Provence en 1980. El año siguiente con la misma distribución se representó en el Théâtre des Champs Elysées en Paris (tuve la suerte de asistir a este evento memorable). La grabación completa se puede comprar en : www.houseofopera.com. El precio es de 3,98 $, y 16$ gastos de envío. Yo tengo la grabación. La imagen no es muy buena pero se trata de una grabación histórica. Saludos - Manuel Navarro

[@utton12]

@@lloantes Muchas gracias Manuel 👌

[@irischung6888]

Serbami ognor

[@carolritscher6533]

It’s stage opera makeup!

[@salvatoreinchingalo3689]

Irripetibile Superbo

[@giovanniarioli2971]

Il mezzo soprano, non è un contralto, né un soprano drammatico . Il contralto è stata la Signora Valentini Terrani. Anzi il Contralto

[@suzannederringer1607]

Seems like somebody decided to design it like a Baroque opera. Caballe does look lovely but yeah, the Red Big Bird thing... This is an impossible opera to stage. Basically nothing happens onstage unless you count the temple shaking and Nino's ghost appearing (Chorus 'Trema il tempio, O infausto oggetto...') and the music is pretty formulaic bravura stuff, little of Rossini's more introspective potential. There's not a lot to work with, just stand and sing - hopefully not hampered by absurd costumes...

[@rogerpropes7129]

This is the Italian opera that Wagner held up to ridicule, all those polkas in ancient Babylon--I love it.

[@rrgallo967]

Where? Is this the ROF?

[@lizbradshaw5747]

Can someone explain why the makeup and costumes are so strange? I'm not being disrespectful. I'm just really curious if there is a good reason.

[@rogerpropes7129]

It's all over now that they have sung. The Tubbalardo twins are no more.

[@enthusedtosing9655]

Caballé's Semiramis is, if we have to be brutally frank, technically deficient. But God does she make the role more interesting than it is.

[@marymargaretblumhorst5359]

Don’t bother being technically frank! Much too beautiful to notice such trivia!! MMB

[@caseyfranco3959]

Its moments like these u feel awful that her(Caballe💜) beautiful singing was displayed next to Horne's croakings😭

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Horne's croackings? I think not. Her "mon couer (sp) s'ouvre a ta voix" was perfect.

[@georgedrummond134]

Croakings? Absolute nonsense. Amazing voice and stunning technique!

[@AlejandroGarcia-ek3uy]

I hate those operas where women play male parts. Male female contrast is beautiful whereas this is awful, weird, ambiguous.

[@marymargaretblumhorst5359]

Open your mind as well as I am sure you believe your ears are open! Come to think of it,your eyes could use bit of tweaking too. MMB

[@fabriziogarzi9892]

Tutto piuttosto sciatto, sopratutto la Montserrat. La Joan resta nella Semiramide imbattibile.

[@paullewis2413]

Who designed these laughable costumes? It's surely a send up of opera?

[@foropera]

Pier Luigi Pizzi. Baroque through the prism of modernity and japonism. Ilike it very much. 2 sumotori in No costumes.

[@johnpickford4222]

It was under the auspices of “Minority Designs in Opera” and someone with great hearing but blind designed them. It was an experiment that only lasted once.

[@clayberguimaraes1804]

O dueto é estupendo, maravilhoso de ouvir mas não de ver. O figurino é horrendo! Não sei o que é mais feio a peruca da Semiramide ou o penacho do Arsace...

[@ian.marais1202]

Caballe glorious as always. Horne the worst mezzo of all times with that nasal sound.

[@xavieralberto1176]

Great, but I really prefer the version with Joan- great singing,but my god, what horrible costumes,brrrrr

[@crazyorganist1609]

I agree. Joan and Marilyn blended together.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Yes, horrible costumes. Why? Why frizz Caballe's blonde wig? And what the heck was Horne wearing? I would have protested. Ye gods. I think I thought Semiramide was a baroque opera by its sound, and then I saw it was by Rossini. Sometimes he sounds baroque to me. Anyway despite that weirdness both Horne and Caballe sounded heavebly.

[@xxsaruman82xx87]

Caballe is great, Horne is unlistenable.

[@johnpickford4222]

Bend over and get FUCKED you imbecile. Horne is great.

[@xxsaruman82xx87]

@@johnpickford4222 You are the imbecile. Horne is so nasal it's untrue. And no need to swear.

[@johnpickford4222]

XxSaruman82xX: Still a FUCKING ASSHOLE, you deaf prick. “No need to respond.”

[@xxsaruman82xx87]

@@johnpickford4222 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHPLdH-Idrmqp9k If you can't hear the difference, then more fool you. At least I can be civilized about it, whereas you have to resort to vulgarities.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

@@xxsaruman82xx87 - It's kind of amusing that some opera lovers get so emotional they have to resort to vulgarities but at least they are interesting vulgarities.

[@crazyorganist1609]

I must admit. Sutherland and Horne blended better

[@pablolopez9778]

Is only you apinion0

[@Flyghumlan9]

this is good enough for me.

[@pelleas9]

Not fabulous at all as far as Caballe is concerned. She was catastrophic here and generally bad in Rossini's operas.

[@weloveicecream2281]

You are delusional. Not even in your best moments you would be 1% "catastrophic" as this. Get a grip.

[@carlocolombo5799]

ian 1856: I agree: neither would I say catastrophic. But instead of saying that she is not at her best, I would say that the best Years are already gone in 1980 (beginning of the step down: 1977). In any case, still fascinating Voice, RIP Montsy!