page_title: Montserrat Caballé
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Montserrat Caballé / Family
caption_attribution_description: The Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé, with her husband the Spanish tenor Bernabé Marti and her son Bernabé II, sitting at a bar table in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. Milan, 1971
context_page_description: María de Montserrat Viviana Concepción Caballé i Folch was a Spanish operatic soprano. She sang a wide variety of roles, but is best known as an exponent of the works of Verdi and of the bel canto repertoire, notably the works of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti. She was noticed internationally when she stepped in for a performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at Carnegie Hall in 1965, and then appeared at leading opera houses. Her voice was described as pure but powerful, with superb control of vocal shadings and exquisite pianissimo.
  Caballé became popular to non-classical music audiences in 1987, when she recorded, at the request of the IOC, "Barcelona", a duet with Freddie Mercury, which became an official theme song for the 1992 Olympic Games. She received several international awards and also Grammy Awards for a number of her recordings.
context_section_description: Caballé married Spanish tenor Bernabé Martí in 1964. They had two children; their daughter Montserrat Martí is also an operatic soprano.
caption: Caballé with husband and son, at Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, 1971
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