* 1933 – Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano

Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).

Many featured singers soon to become world famous, such as Teresa Berganza, Alfredo Kraus and Pilar Lorengar ; and later, Montserrat Caballé and Plácido Domingo.

Many well-known singers, including Victoria de los Angeles and Montserrat Caballé, have recorded albums of zarzuela songs and arias.

** Montserrat Caballé, Catalan soprano

After working on various solo projects during 1988 ( including Mercury's collaboration with Montserrat Caballé, Barcelona ), the band released The Miracle in 1989.

* Barcelona ( album ) is an album ( 1988 ) by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé

Many top international opera singers have performed in the theatre, such as Barbara Hendricks, Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé, Roberto Alagna, René Pape and Inva Mula.

Songs from Entre el cielo y el suelo have been covered by Montserrat Caballé and Celia Cruz.

Throughout the decade, four other bel canto specialists debuted their Normas: Radmila Bakočević, Montserrat Caballé, Beverly Sills, and Renata Scotto.

Other celebrated singers who debuted at the Met during Bing's tenure include: Maria Callas, who had a bitter falling out with Bing over repertoire, Renata Tebaldi, Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Moffo, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Luciano Pavarotti, Jon Vickers, Sherrill Milnes, and Cesare Siepi.

Other revivals of Spontini include Agnes von Hohenstaufen at the Maggio Musicale festival in Florence in 1954, starring Franco Corelli and conducted by Vittorio Gui, and in Rome in 1970, with Montserrat Caballé and Antonietta Stella, conducted by Riccardo Muti.

Nevertheless, the rest of the 10 women who applied were rejected including Montserrat Caballé.

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From the beginning, the Festival attracted some major singers including Marilyn Horne, Montserrat Caballé, Ruggero Raimondi and Juan Diego Flórez.

Many singers have made their American debut in Dallas, such as Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Gwyneth Jones, Waltraud Meier, Magda Olivero, Joan Sutherland, and Jon Vickers.

** Erik Smith ( producer ), Colin Davis ( conductor ), Richard van Allan, Janet Baker, Montserrat Caballé, Ileana Cotrubaş, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Nicolai Gedda & the Royal Opera House Orchestra for Mozart: Così fan tutte

** Richard Mohr ( producer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ), Judith Blegen, Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Ruggero Raimondi & the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Puccini: La bohème

** Carlo Felice Cillario ( conductor ), Montserrat Caballé & the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Rossini: Rarities

An iconic collaboration between the late Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé resulted in the worldwide hit " Barcelona ".

Given the fondness of the Catalans for music, it may not be surprising to hear that Andorra has a Chamber Orchestra directed by the violinist Gérard Claret ; and that it also stages a famous international singing contest supported by the Spanish singer Montserrat Caballé.

Some other famous leading ladies that have lent their voices to the role of Anna have been Leyla Gencer, Montserrat Caballé, Renata Scotto, Edita Gruberova and Mariella Devia.

Dame Montserrat Caballé (, ) ( born 12 April 1933 ) is a Spanish operatic soprano.

The plaque on the building where Montserrat Caballé i Folch was born in Barcelona.

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Among these organizations were Grup Torras i Bages ( where he met other activists such as Jaume Carner or Joan Reventós ), Comissió Abat Oliva, Grup Pere Figuera or Cofradia de la Mare de Déu de Montserrat de Virtèlia.

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Garcias de Cisneros the abbot of the abbey of Montserrat was influenced by the Devotio Moderna ( as well as Louis Barbo ) and his book Ejercitatorio de la vida espiritual, i. e. " exercises for the spiritual life " became one of the primary sources for the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola.

Montserrat Gibert i Llopart ( born 1948, Barcelona ) was the mayor of Sant Boi de Llobregat ( a Catalan town near Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain ) until 2007.

Other introductions include the release on Antigua — possibly before 1916, although there are suggestions that this initial population may have died out by 1934 and been reintroduced at a later date — and Montserrat, which saw an introduction before 1879 that led to the establishment of a solid population, which was apparently sufficient to survive the Soufrière Hills volcano eruption in 1995.

Plymouth, Montserrat | Plymouth the capital was abandoned in 1997 following the eruption

The economy of Montserrat was severely disrupted by volcanic activity which began in July 1995.

Destroyed by Hurricane Hugo in 1989, the studio was never reestablished ; however Martin subsequently helped found the Montserrat Cultural Centre, which was opened in 2007.

Soufrière Hills continues to play a detrimental role in both agricultural and economic activity on Montserrat. Today, Montserrat ’ s main economic activity is in construction and government services which together accounted for about 50 percent of GDP in 2000 when it was EC $ 76 million.

In 1671, English Saint Kitts was joined with Nevis, Antigua and Montserrat to form the Leeward Caribee Island Government, headquartered in Antigua.

In 1806, the Leeward Islands Caribee government was split into two groups, with Antigua, Barbuda, Redonda and Montserrat in one group, and St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands in the other.

The former was used as a base for British colonisation of neighbouring Nevis ( 1628 ), Antigua ( 1632 ), Montserrat ( 1632 ), Anguilla ( 1650 ) and Tortola ( 1672 ).

The Police's fourth album, Ghost in the Machine, co-produced by Hugh Padgham, was recorded at Air Studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, and released in 1981.

A documentary film known as " The Other Final " was filmed based on a special football match arranged by FIFA that was played between the 202nd placed ( out of 203 worldwide ) Bhutan and 203rd-ranked Montserrat.

The first building to be completed on this new city campus was the Faculty of Pharmacy in 1956 alongside the Sant Raimond de Penyafort and the Verge de Montserrat Halls of Residence.

His last major concert performance was the Music for Montserrat all-star charity concert at London's Royal Albert Hall on September 15, 1997.

But it was not till 1857 that he wrote his first poem in Catalan -- a copy of verses to the Virgin of Montserrat.

Henceforward he frequently adopted the pseudonym of " Lo Trovador de Montserrat "; in 1859 he helped to restore the " Jocs Florals ", and in 1861 was proclaimed mestre en gay saber.

The album, once again produced by George Martin, was recorded in Montserrat in the West Indies with the members of the live band: David Dickey, Willie Leacox, Michael Woods, Jim Calire and Tom Walsh.

Montserrat and Antigua also succeeded in avoiding the use of stamps ; some correspondents thought that rioting was prevented in Antigua only by the large troop presence.

Wings reconvened in January 1981 to work on the Cold Cuts album of previously unreleased songs, and Denny Laine continued to participate in the Tug of War recording sessions in Montserrat in February, but on 27 April 1981, Laine announced he was leaving Wings due to McCartney's reluctance to tour in the wake of John Lennon's murder.

In the treaty with Spain, the territories of East and West Florida were ceded to Spain ( without any clearly defined northern boundary, resulting in disputed territory resolved with the Treaty of Madrid ), as was the island of Minorca, while the Bahama Islands, Grenada and Montserrat, captured by the French and Spanish, were returned to Britain.

A few months later, the island of Montserrat ( one of the United Kingdom's few remaining overseas territories ) was devastated by a volcano eruption which rendered half the island uninhabitable ; when the 4, 500 islanders asked for more help from the DfID, Short was reported to have remarked " they will be asking for golden elephants next ", and refused to visit the island.

In 2002, Bhutan's national football team played Montserrat, in what was billed as The Other Final ; the match took place on the same day Brazil and Germany in the World Cup Final, but at the time, Bhutan and Montserrat were the world's 2 lowest ranked teams.