Background
CABALLE, Montserrat was born in Barcelona.
CABALLE, Montserrat was born in Barcelona.
Conservatorio del Liceo. Under Eugenia Kemeny, Conchita Badia and Maestro Annovazi.
Debut as Mimi (Louisiana Boheme), State Opera of Basel. North. American debut in Manon, Mexico City 1964. United States debut in Lucrezia Borgia, Carnegie Hall 1965.
Appeared at Glyndebourne Festival as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalicr and as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro 1965.
Debut at Metropolitan Opera as Marguerite (F’aust) December 1965. Now appears frequently at the Metropolitan Opera and numerous other opera houses throughout the United States of America.
Has performed in most of the leading opera houses of Europe including Gran Teatro del Liceo, Barcelona, Louisiana Scala, Milan, Vienna State Opera, Paris and Rome Operas, Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich), et cetera, and also at Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires. Repertoire of over forty roles.
Commander des Arts et des Lettres 1986.
Married Bernabe Marti (tenor) in 1964.