With the world premiere in Cannes, duringMIDEM (International Market of Records andMusical Edition) in January 2003, CaballéBeyond Music combines the tradition ofmusicals with the documentary style revealingnot only Caballé as the Prima Donna, but alsoMontserrat as the woman.

The film allows us to relive the most importantmusical, personal and moving moments of sucha long and fascinating life through an intimateaccount told in the first person by the artistherself.

Her tough beginnings, her training, her doubtsand setbacks, the cities that saw her evolve andthe performances that established her nameworldwide, all appear, as do the statements ofthose who know her as woman and artist: fromthe great tenor Placido Domingo to the genialFreddy Mercury, the legendaries Claudio Abbadoand Zubin Mehta; the writer Terenci Moix; andthe ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, among others.

“I believe that people owe a lot to music because music is always there. It is a form ofexpression that is born not from thinking but from feeling. I believe that drinking music is thebest thing in life. Music is magic and it is a privilege to live with it. With this film I wish toshare with you the most important moments in my career, which are also the best momentsof my life.” Montserrat Caballé

Montserrat Caballé has performed more than90 roles on stage and counts with more than100 recordings from which 40 are completeoperas. She has performed in the fivecontinents and her recordings have beenlistened to in the Cosmos. She has sung inhistorical places like Aspendos, Epidavros,Merida Roman Theater and also in the KremlinGreat Conference Hall, Pekin Nation Hall, theWhite House in Washington and the Auditoriumof the General Assembly of the United Nationsin New York. Caballé has performed beforeaudiences of more than half million people inTel Aviv, Saratoga and Berlin, among others.

Montserrat Caballé

the FilmA musical which covers the life of Montserrat Caballéin a personal tone and without formalities. Filmed overnearly three years in the most significant places in herlife alongside the people who have accompanied herthroughout her impeccable personal and artistic path.She reveals the keys to understand not only her art butalso and above all the woman who performs anddreams in a life filled with music. Caballé BeyondMusic succeeds in showing her artistic developmentthrough intimate and certain previously unknownaspects. The musical reveals secrets for the first timeabout the immaculate path of Montserrat Caballé whoMaria Callas named as her only successor. In this filmwe see, not only her love for the art but also her greatsensitivity towards the world that surrounds her, whereCaballé is a distinguished spokeswoman for theserious problems suffered by humanity.

Caballé Beyond Music is a fascinating journey throughthe life and career of the woman who is undoubtedly,a key figure in the music of the second half of thetwentieth century. Our exceptional guide is Montserratherself who, with her warmth and sense of humour,returns to those places important in her life. From hernative Barcelona we visit her beginnings in Basel andBremen, the famous Carnegie Hall in New York whereher international career was launched and all thegreatest opera houses in the world where she hasperformed: the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, theKonzerthaus in Vienna, the Scala in Milan, the RoyalFestival Hall in London, the Opera in Paris, the Opera inMunich, the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona,the Teatro Real in Madrid, Carnegie Hall and Fisher Hallin New York and the Bolshoi in Moscow. Historicallyvaluable fragments of some of her most emblematicand legendary performances are gathered from themasterly Norma of Orange, the Tosca of Tokyo, theSemiramide with Marylin Horne, Turandot, Salome inMadrid and the unpublished Anna Bolena in 1966, thefirst known audio-visual recording of Montserrat.

TheIntervieweesCaballé Beyond Music counts on the directtestimonies of many of the people who have formedpart of her life and career: Claudio Abbado, Giuseppedi Stefano, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, IoanHolender, Marilyn Horne, Joan Matabosch, FedericoMayor Zaragoza, Zubin Mehta, Terenci Moix,Professor Luc Montagnier, Yelena Obraztsova, MayaPlisetskaya, Eve Queler, Samuel Ramey, MstislavRostropovich, Cheryl Studer, Joan Sutherland help tosketch the different features of the soprano and thewoman who lives inside her unforgettable operaticcharacters.

Also interviewed are her collaborators and closestrelatives such as her brother and artistic advisorCarlos Caballé, who guided Montserrat from herbeginnings and warily helped her to choose herrepertoire with excellent precision. The love storywith her husband, Bernabé Martí, who Montserratcalls ‘my Pinkerton’, ever since they both shared thestage in the opera Madame Butterfly, and her pastand present relationship with Montsita, her daughter,who follows in her footsteps as a musical singer andher son Bernabé Martí Caballé.

The list of interviewees is caped by: Flora Bertrand,Charlie Bessels, Mariona y Carmen Bonet Badía, JoséAntonio Campos, Denny Dayviss, Joan Dornemann,Irving Fischer, Pierre Jourdan, Lois Kirschenbaum,Cristina Ordovás, Stefan Schmerbeck, Renata Vercesi.

Musical Archivesand MusicCaballé Beyond Music includes an exclusive selection of legendaryaudiovisual archives, some of them unpublished, which constituteprobably the best operatic moments in existence.

TURANDOT (PUCCINI) act II scene. Opéra, ParisIL PIRATA (BELLINI) "Col sorriso d' innocenza" Salle Pleyel, ParisADRIANA LECOUVREUR (CILEA) "Poveri fiori", TokyoROBERTO DEVEREUX (DONIZETTI) "Vivi ingrato".Festival d´Aix enProvenceA.LECOUVREUR (CILEA) act ll. With J. Carreras, TokyoJOTA NAVARRA (MORENO TORROBA) with P. Domingo. AuditorioNacional de Música, MadridGATO MONTÉS (PENELLA) . "¡Sí ! ¡Torero quiero sé!". With P. Domingo.Auditorio Nacional de Música, MadridSEMIRAMIDE (ROSSINI) "Ebben, a te ferisci!" With M. Horne. Festivald´Aix en ProvenceTOSCA (PUCCINI) "Vissi d' arte" .Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.LondonSALOMÉ (R. STRAUSS) Final Scene.Teatro de la Zarzuela, MadridBARCELONA (F. MERCURY & M. MORAN) With F. Mercury. "La Nit",Barcelona THE GOLDEN BOY (F.MERCURY & M. MORAN) .With F. Mercury."La Nit",Barcelona MARCH WITH ME (VANGELIS). Olympic Stadium, AthensLUISA FERNANDA (M. TORROBA) "A la sombra de una sombrilla" With A.Kraus. Teatro Real, MadridREQUIEM (VERDI) Rehearsals. San Marco, MilanIL VIAGGIO A REIMS (ROSSINI) act I aria. Staatsoper, ViennaLA TEMPRANICA (GIMÉNEZ) "La Tarántula é un bicho mu malo".Philharmonie am Gasteig, MunichNORMA (BELLINI) "Casta Diva". Chorégies d´OrangeLA VIERGE (MASSENET) « L´extase de la Vierge ». Mezquita-Catedral deCórdoba"LA PRIÉRE DU MONDE" (VÁNGELIS). Mezquita-Catedral de CórdobaHENRY VIII (SAINT-SAËNS) . Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del LiceuANNA BOLENA (DONIZETTI) "Al dolce guidami".Salle Pleyel, Paris

The film also includes carefully selected music by Carlos Caballé,Musical Director, which accompanies the viewer and enhances itscontent and emotions.

LA TRAVIATA (VERDI) "Teneste la promessa"PARAULES D´AMOR (J.M SERRAT)LUISA MILLER (VERDI) OvertureCLARINET CONCERTO in A, K. 622 (MOZART)DAMUNT DE TÚ NOMÉS LES FLORS (F. MOMPOU)ZUEIGNUNG, op.10 no.1 (R. STRAUSS)AIDA (VERDI) OvertureLA BOHÈME (PUCCINI) Leitmotif Mimi´s death, act IVLA BOHÈME (PUCCINI) "Mi chiamano Mimi"TANNHÄUSER (WAGNER) "Dich, teure Halle" Orchestral introductionCOSÌ FAN TUTTE (MOZART) "Come scoglio"NORMA (BELLINI) "Guerra, guerra!"WALZ no.2 in C sharp minor (CHOPIN)MADAMA BUTTERFLY (PUCCINI) Cio-Cio-San's entranceMANON (MASSENET) "Et je sais votre nom" With G. di StefanoLUCREZIA BORGIA (DONIZETTI) "Com´ è bello"LUCREZIA BORGIA (DONIZETTI) "Tranquillo ei posa"I VESPRI SICILIANI (VERDI) BoleroLIKE A DREAM (VANGELIS) Lyrics by Montserrat CaballéIL PIRATA (BELLINI) "0 s' io potessi… col sorriso d' innocenza"Orchestral introductionLA TRAVIATA (VERDI) "Amami Alfredo"UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (VERDI) Minuetto act IIITOSCA (PUCCINI) Act II, orchestra onlyTRAVIATA (VERDI) Prelude act IIIROMÉO ET JULIETTE (GOUNOD) "Je veux vivre" NORMA (BELLINI) "Casta Diva" Orchestral introductionTURANDOT (PUCCINI) Orchestral end of act ITURANDOT (PUCCINI) Orchestral introduction act IIPIANO CONCERTO no.27, K. 595 in B Flat (MOZART)PIANO CONCERTO no.27, K. 595 in B Flat (MOZART)SAPHO (MASSENET) Air de la séduction :"Pendant un an je fus tafemme"CAVALLERÍA RUSTICANA (MASCAGNI) IntermezzoANDREA CHÉNIER (GIORDANO) "Vicino a te" With Bernabé MartíLES CONTES D' HOFFMAN (OFFENBACH) "Barcarole" With M. MartíTRISTAN UND ISOLDE (WAGNER) "Liebestod"LOUISE (CHARPENTIER) "Depuis le jour"

BiographyMontserrat Caballé was born in Barcelona on the12th of April 1933. Coming from a humblebackground, her family went to great efforts so thatshe could study music at the Superior conservatoryof the Liceo. In 1956 she moved to Switzerland whereshe formed part of the Opera of Basel company.Between 1957 and 1959 she opened a repertoirewhich included Mozart and Strauss. Between 1959and 1962 she became part of the permanentcompany of the Opera of Bremen. In her final yearthere she earned her first contract to sing in the Liceoin Barcelona where she opened the Arabella byStrauss and played the feminine roles of DonGiovanni by Mozart and Madame Butterfly byPuccini. Her launch onto the international stage tookplace on 20th April 1965 in New York when sheunexpectedly substituted Marylin Horne in theLucrezia Borgia by Donizetti. Up until that momentshe was unknown, on finishing her first aria thepublic dedicated an ovation of twenty minutes andthe local press added: ‘No previous publicity couldhave predicted the tremendous impact thisGoyesque woman would cause upon the publicpampered by the delights of Callas and Sutherland.When Caballé began her first aria there was a changein the atmosphere. It felt as though everyone hadstopped breathing’.

With a somewhat uncommon versatility, MontserratCaballé has alternated her operatic performanceswith recitals and concerts and has sung as soloistwith the most prestigious orchestras and conductorssuch as Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein,Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Claudio Abbado, SeijiOzawa, Riccardo Muti, Sir Colin Davis and CarloMaria Giulini. Her collaboration with Freddie Mercuryon the album Barcelona and with Vangelis in "Marchwith Me" finally conquered the widest public.

Montserrat Caballé is also known for her passion forreviving works that have fallen into oblivion. Whenthe majority of sopranos tend to progressivelyreduce their artistic activities Caballé, over the lasttwo decades, has devoted herself to the research ofan uncommon repertoire, including Armide by Gluck,Les Danaïdes by Salieri, Medea and Demophon byCherubini, Ermione e Il Viaggio a Reims by Rossini.

She owns numerous prizes and internationaldecorations, including the Order of Isabel la Católica,Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres de France,Académica de Honor and Gold Medal from theAcademia de las Letras, Ciencias y Artes of Italy.Since 1974 she is honorary ambassador of the UnitedNations and Good Will ambassador for UNESCO.

Morena FilmsCompany dedicated to the production anddistribution of audiovisual works. With a clearinternational reach, its main objective is theproduction of feature films, documentaries andtelevision programming for the national andinternational market in co-production with othercountries.

Ibits ProductionsIndependent Film production company, founded byAlberto Sabaté, committed to the creation of projectswith a high cultural and social content. We defendthat the fusion of culture and matters that add valueto Evolution, can be commercially successful. In pre-production: "IT wants YOU!". Ambitious docufilmwith the mission to help combat AIDS in the world.With an important cast of personalities andinternational stars. " Caballé: beyond the music ", isIbits Productions first work.

Technical DataLength 98 minShooting Format Super 16 mm, Digital Betacam Screening Format 35mm

CrewProducers Alvaro Longoria

Alberto SabatéDirector Antonio A. FarréEditing Director Raúl RomanMusical Director Carlos CaballéDirector of Photography Xavier Gil Production Director Isidro TerrazaScripwriter Alberto Sabaté

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