Her international breakthrough came in 1965. She was asked at short notice to learn the title role in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia which was to be given a concert performance in Carnegie Hall. She was utterly unknown, but after her first aria the astounded New York audience gave her an ovation that lasted twenty minutes.
Since then, she has sung in all the great opera houses and concert halls throughout the world, and with the most prestigious orchestras.


Montserrat Caballé’s repertoire is enormous -her stage roles number nearly 90- and is probably unrivalled by any other singer this century. She can also lay fair claim to being one of the most commercially recorded, with over 80 titles to her credit, half of which are of complete operas. But she is perhaps best known -and most admired for- her Belcanto assumptions.

Additionally, she has become known to a different and even wider audience through her collaboration with the late Freddie Mercury on the album Barcelona, a state of affairs which was followed by innovative new associations with artists as various as Vangelis, the Swiss Rock band “Gotthard” and Johnny Halliday.
Her last concert in Montreux was on July 18th, 1997; she sang at the Montreux Jazz Festival.


Her greatness as an artist has primarily been founded on Montserrat’s vocal qualities: one of the most beautiful and versatile voices in recorded history allied to a virtually flawless technique. But there is also the charismatic power and warmth of her personality, which reaches out and captivates audiences the world over. In an age when the term has been debased by indiscriminate use, Caballé remains the authentic embodiment of what is to be a DIVA.

Montserrat Caballé is accompanied by Manuel Burgueras at the piano.
Born in Buenos Aires, he studied at the National Conservatory of this city.
He started his career as a soloist, specialising at the same time in chamber music and accompaniment.
Since 1991 he accompanies Montserrat Caballé, having performed at the most prestigious places with her.