Montserrat Caballé - Master Class 2011
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- Montserrat the great teacher. Interesting to know that whilst other stars charge astronomical prices for their expertise Montserrat's classes are free. It's evidence of her commitment to the future of opera. She thinks to the future!
BREATH BEFORE SOUND. Brava Montserrat!
Caballe stated in an interview that her first vocal instructor made her students do breathing exercises only for 8 months. No singing. Most parents pulled their children out of the class. Caballe said after 8 months she could sing anything.
Amen!!!
She obviously had a great teacher. And she became one herself - in addition to being one of the best sopranos we have ever had. I feel sorry for the young woman, though…it’s a unpleasant feeling when you cannot do what your own teacher says but one of the most famous, respected and beloved maestras of all time? I would have died of shame.
Veo dos problemas; 1) el profesor debe " realizar" el mismo ejercicio...2) el alumno " no escucha"; nooo! Hay un tiempo importantisimo de escucha y analisis; lego preparo mi cuerpo y después actuo...
Nunca me gusto superponer error tras error; debe haber tiempo de " refleccion...
Falsch verstanden. Breath up heißt nicht dass man den Atem herausgibt und dann den Ton. Es heißt, man hält den Atem zuerst im Brustkorb und hebt ihn an durch Heben des Bauches. Dadurch entsteht ein Druck von unten gegen das Zwerchfell. Den Atem im Brustkorb lässt man eher sinken, hält aber die Rippen außen. Das berühmte AUF dem Atem singen und nicht mit dem Atem singen, denn das geht gar nicht.
Man sieht es deutlich wenn Monserrat sintg. Man sieht kaum eine Atembewegung. Warum? Weil sie das Volumen im Brustkorb hält und von unten dagegen hält.
einfach ausprobieren. Funktioniert, in tiefer und mittlerer Lage braucht man nicht mal was mit dem Bauch machen.
That’s not what she said.. support before the onset of sound.
This is a lady who knows about support - it stems from the lower part of the body! And she is absolutely right ....!
@Remalia19 It is clearer in some of the other videos what she is trying to achieve. The pushing is to remind them which muscles support the breath and thus the sound. This girl did not fully grasp the concept.
Non È detto che un buon soprano abbia in sé Una brava maestra.
great!!
@RocktheStageNYC Thank you, so after tightening the mid and side muscles and expanding them outwards, can I pull them slowly throughout the phrase inward? Or can they remaind pulled outwards?
non le funziona il diaframma,ma la caballè può insegnarle come farlo funzionare ma sta a lei allenarlo.
❤👏
Wich aria os she singing?
"Ebben! Ne andrò lontana"
Alfredo Catalani - La Wally
Himmlisch Bistro Montserrat caballe
Ich möchte dich immer hören und treffen
Rupert Ascher Jesus
It is amazing the number of singers you see in conservatories and in master classes that have good voices, but they cannot breathe and have not been taught or mastered proper breath support. The tone is always under supported. This is what Caballe is trying to get across. A good voice is nothing and will have no longevity if breath support is not truly mastered. Teachers and singers pay lip service to the concept, but oftentimes that is where it ends.
Talk about pressure! One of the world's greatest in front of you and every time you open your mouth she shakes her head. But what an opportunity, to have her tune you in that way.
You are right! Absolutely!
horseshit ,its the love of the art that matters not adoration of the person ,great to see a great of performance able to teach also and for free,the arts are full of those that could not do,opening schools et alia
Tuned??🤣🤣 to reallyget the principle of breathing, work( once you have understand it,)you need 10 years!!!!!!
@@datasicherung6406 Yes but he probably meant that was probably the moment when she realised she was doing that wrong and started the learning process. But yes, it certainly takes years to master.
When you have this big resonance like this young girl, you tend to relay on that rather than support. In my opinion it'd have been better to start from the first low note and try to make her feel what support is by singing very small intervals. Screaming high notes is very instinctual and opera is obsessed by high notes, but singing is a legato line and it seems to be forgot nowadays
She showed no signs of frustration with that girl when she kept screaming the same way. That girl was extremely lucky to get that one on one attention from the great Caballé, let alone to be in her very presence!
look everyone goes through the screaming stage umkay :( Especially sopranos
Oh come on...that’s a bit harsh. I agree with you partly - she was very lucky to have that chance with the great Caballé. But you cannot fix habits you have learned and continued having for ages, in five minutes. She had probably been singing like that for years. It’s a long process to change that - technique is a tricky thing. Could be impossible even if that’s gone for too long - if you are not young anymore and/or you don’t have the right and patient teacher and a lot of time yourself.
She don't want a scream, she want a note
Stupid coment. What the hell knows about sing opera a person that likes and shares videos of a 9years old girl "singing" opera? Damn it-
Your comment it is even more stupid. I just repeated what the great Caballe said at 2:19 and .....well the little singer is talented and one day maybe she will be a great opera singer or maybe not.....but for now nobody knows you so maybe the little girl is better then you. ;) Have a nice day
PicciRam s
correct
Hi ...I will explain as someone who is a classical singer ..to reach that note with that jump and project ...when you are learning the voice tends to scream as the muscles are not strong enough to hold it yet gently ...its not that she can't hear herself ...its like saying to YOU lift 500lbs ..but don't heave it or jerk it ...just lift 500lbs lightly ...it takes a lot of physical development and she is only a teen ...and tbh the aria might be too big for her voice ..but singing this stuff ..its the only way to make the voice bigger ..like doing heavier weights ...but ALL sopranos go through a screaming stage ....i went through it ...the exercise of throwing out bombas or a swell helps ...anyway i would be more worried that she is slightly flat
Montserrat had incredible breathing control, some of the best in opera and what a great teacher. A dream to take master classes with the top singers of the genre.
Preparing with the diaphragm beFORE to go to the high note. Great advice. As a cellist I was taught the same thing about very large shifts. Prepare your left arm/hand up to the new higher position placement just before you shift upwards. It makes a huge difference and shifts are so much easier that way also so much more reliable than trying to move everything at the same time
Lo mismo en el piano.. primero es el cuerpo que va en dirección a los brazos para controlar la fuerza a las manos. ..todo es antes de interpretar...saludos
She is incredibly patient. She is trying again and again and again without even shouting at her or showing any sign of tedium. That's a real MASTER CLASS and for free!!! What else can we ask for? EXTRAORDINARY Montserrat Caballé:-) Long life to the diva who is not a diva but an amazing and beautiful HUMAN BEING.
That student only wants to scream........
@@stevendaniel8126 Or she just cannot do the necessary changes instantly. If she has never been taught to do that, it’s very hard to try to fix it in a moment. Not to mention in front of one of the greatest opera singers ever. The pressure…
These are general problems with master classes/courses. No need to be so judgemental.
Well, "singing from the diaphragm" doesn't actually happen. It's an autonomic muscle. What she is trying to get her to do is keep her airflow stable, preemptive and constant. When that airflow is moving correctly and properly supposed (using the muscles she keeps pointing to), it will remove tension from the neck and larynx. The support precedes the breath with precedes the sound.
@Jade McDonagh get back with me when you, too, have multiple science-based degrees in this specific field.
Ms Caballe is if course right. Bad habits. Terrible techniques.
She's one of my favourite opera singers... Wow!!! And she's doing it for free...
I don't know the first thing about singing but I have developed a good ear and I completely understand what Mrs Caballe is talking about. It is good to acknowledge this is lack of technique and not my imagination saying someone is not singing well.
lack of technique=not singing well
@@tjw2469 someone can sing well with bad technique. They just won't be able to do it for long.
Learned of Miss Caballe because I am a Freddie Mercury fan. She is pure gold. To me, the young girl sounds awesome. Can you image how she will sound when she gets it right! 👍⚘⚘
Monserrat sings from inside and is such a beautiful talent. I totally understand why Freddie loved her. I would love to visit with her and be her friend, she is such a lovely person.
Incredible, how her voice changes every time she begin to sopport!
I adore these masterclass videos on youtube. Thank you very much.
You get the pitch only by breath suport .
She is right Monserrat , the voice must be always ON THE BREATH.
Any other effort will shall be only a scream from the neck and nothing more.
GDARAKOS 3
Pitch is autonomous. It comes from saying the vowel.
monserrat is right
FIATO-SINGING ON THE BREATH-NOT WITH THE BREATH. Monserrat CABALLE HAD A SUPREME CONTROL/COMMAND OF FIATO...EVERYONE TALKED OF THIS IN ESPECIALLY HER PIANISSIMO AND FLOATING HIGH NOTES THAT WOULD NOT END. 1950s-60s IN AMERICA, DID NOT HAVE many AVAILABLE ITALIAN MASTERS WHO SCHOOLED THE FIATO. I know a tenor who was in master classes with Pavarotti and Domingo. The very first sound is how the breath supports to cover at the passagio-FIATO IS THE TECHNIQUE that determines a career short or long. With that understood, a singer becomes well mastered to address any composer style. How Caballe could knock many performances out of the park with repertoire of over 100! RIP, La Divina🌹♥️
Teacher Caballé don’t want her to scream,,it’s not good to the ear,,it’s too much to handle.,,control of diaphragm is what she emphasises
More than the fact that these students lucky to be in a class instructed by the best opera singer in the world, they were lucky to have been in her presence! What anybody would give for that!!!
True! I would literally give anything. Seriously, anything. So sad that it’s too late. 🥺
The life can sometimes be a real pain in the neck - I have such a bad luck with people I admire…they all have left this world. And I was born too late to witness and experience moments I would have cherished the rest of my life. I honestly think I was born in the wrong decade.
I don't think Caballe can be the perfect teacher. Most of the singers do not know how to explain and be good teachers altghough they were brilliant. Who knows.
If I was there, she would have hit me with that thing she slammed on the desk. thats a sign of a good teacher who wants the best from her students.
@joaopedro12 - practice hissing air like a leaking tire. Hiss air out your front teeth slowly than swell to a louder hiss and feel the process of what is happening in your body. You should feel a tightening of the abdomen first then air comes out through your teeth. That is the proper breath cycle of exhaling for singing. Pressing down of the diaphragm first then air goes up through the body, through the vocal folds and out your mouth.
She's telling the girl (repeatedly) to inhale and take the breath that LEADS the eventual note. The girl is trying to take the breath and sing the note at the same time, thus screaming, rather than having enough breath support to produce a well supported sound.
Caballé le dice a la chica que tiene que usar su primer estómago de la garganta. La niña no entendía bien pero caballe continúa con su trabajo para que le enseñara a cantar correctamente sin arruinar su voz..
Yo realizo el cinturon abdomen y nacel el Apoyo. Lo decia Pavarotti de la sensacion de estar en el Inodoro. Con mucha seriedad lo dijo..
5:33 The difference! If she could have had a teacher that had at least the half of the knowledge and wisdom our dear Montse did…that girl could have had a great career. But obviously she didn’t, unfortunately. The opera singing today is a parody of what it used to be. Modern teachers and ”technique”…
I think the girl started studying too young and also falls prey to the terrible urge to 'age' her voice so she can run before she can walk. No young voice should have that wobble. She's pushing her sound so much. Only LOUD, no nuance. Get thee to a better teacher, girl!
When you have just found your voice, it's easier to sing loud. Otherwise you lose the air flow/support. The dynamics usually come later. And by wobble, do you mean vibrato?
@@idahval the dreaded "wobble" that ages a singer is distinct from a vibrato
Ms. Caballe is trying to get the young lady to have more breath support in her singing. Ms. C is pressing on her stomach because that is where the muscle you need to use to support your breathing are. a good way to find this is to "suck in your gut". lol those are the muscles you need to SUPPORT your breathing. To exercise these muscles you could lay on your bck with some sort of weight on ur lower stomach and try to lift the weight up, and slowly let ur breath out to work on your BreathControl
I don't think she's making her suck her gut in, she's making her stick it out to counteract her pushing. How could anyone stop the diaphragm from raising up sucking their gut in? That sounds like the opposite you should do and funny enough the book exercise is very exemplary of this. Appoggio is about trusting that never ending pressure in the epigastric region to essentially do the work for you.
q privilégio ter Montserrat do lado dando forças e ensinando👍😍
Renata could not have said it better myself. Magnificent Montserrat only doing her best to help the young lady do her best.
@@bamcr1218 Yes. But the girl must have been so nervous…she was singing in front of La Superba after all. Montse was such a lovely lady (never knew her personally but it’s obvious) but she was also one of the best and respected sopranos ever.
So it must have felt terrible when you disappoint the person you admire and respect... At least I would have felt awful. 😳
"I don't want a scream, I want a note.:-) This singer
has a beautiful voice...even if Montserrat can't get
her to breathe properly. Montse is so sweet, even
in her criticism. It doesn't surprise me a bit that she
does this for free...she never forgot the people who
helped her, and she believes in giving back, I wish
they had taped the who aria...one of my favorites.
It must be great to have someone of Caballe's caliber providing guidance and constructive criticism.
Не умеет преподавать,но певица гениальная.
The problem is that it is a masterclass, which should serve to perfect the style or correct some small note that is wrong. When the problem is the base it can't be fixed in a day no matter how much you try. And even if you get it in a couple of days it will be wrong again.
Pretty much. Proper breathing and support is the foundation of good singing and while it's never perfected, one should have a fairly good understanding of it before going into a masterclass. It can't be taught in a day.
My thought exactly.
Roldan Martinez , you’re right !!
The singer should have worked out with her teacher the basic breathing technique long before she stood at a masterclass with Caballe.
First time i see a Singer teaching the right way.They ask money for teaching secondary issues like mouth's position instead breath's pression and compression(pressure and squeeze).
MOOHAAAAAAAAaaaaa
Que mujer tan maravillosa… que carrera tan brillante que ha hecho, que suerte que la hemos conocido!!!!
voz espectacular!!! y además culta, hablaba perfectamente en inglés, francés, italiano, portugués, alemán, español, y por su puesto catalán. Ella cantó más de 80 óperas, ninguna como ella. La base de su éxito fue el dominio perfecto de la respiración.
They're in the presence of genius ... a woman who has spent decades perfecting her voice and her art .. but the observers can't keep their pie-holes shut in order to listen.
SEEMS LIKE MONTSERRAT IS NOT THAT GREAT AT PEDAGOGY (that s ALL I m saying here folks)... the poor girl really is trying her best but is not really given the explanation nor the tools she needs to give Montserrat what she wants! I was therefor a bit disappointed since CABALLÉ is still one of my top fave opera singers!
Genius-level artists usually not only demand perfection from others (hence the unbelievable strictness) but also, more often than not, don't have the patience foe mediocrity. And from what I understand of those commenting here (who seem to have more knowledge about singing), whatever that technique and control Caballe is trying to teach the girl here is one of the BASICS which she should have mastered years before, not during a master class where the goal only is making "stylistic tweaks" to one's performance.
I agree. Montserrat might be the best opera soprano but she isn't a good teacher at all.
Monserrat eres bella. :-D
Bet these classes didn't come cheap ... But OMG! Monsterrat one of the greatest, you'd sell your own soul to have her mentor you 🙌
Firebrand VOCALS they were free. Great loss today :(
@@opera1dan2 no
@@Tkimba2 yes, they were free
@@tgonzalezcrespo sources?
@@Tkimba2 they were free. Its well known that Montserrat did this every year. Not only that, the winner of the competition got to perform recitals with Montse and other engagements.
Google: Concurso Internacional de Canto Montserrat Caballé.
Wonderful. This is the second part of the masterclass I've found. Any chance of more, please?
Dude I'm looking for more too
Está que le pega a la pobre...!!
Está que se ríe de la pena la Caballé porque la chica no entiende.
Como pa' pegarle un capon lol
So I understand this, is she advising the student to tuck in and up? When I attempt this, I feel a greater expansion in my ribs. Is this accurate?
Yes, for breath support and control, so it's not going to be pitchy and too loud.
She's telling her to let go and use the muscles from the abdomen, instead of contractions on the lungs while she let the air flow, it's in inglish, first and second
It is sad that she is not explaining this well. She is talking about the AIR going up. She said first the breath then the sound. It has nothing to do with pulling the abdomen up, but rather releasing the air up. The singer's job in proper appoggiare is to hold out against the pull in and that balance is appoggiare. But the air should always lead the sound.
I'd like to hear how she sounds now that it's been 2 years
And now 9 years!
@@ErnestoValt Well she died in 2018 so.... Good luck!
@@MrSteveGrey 😳🥺. Oh! I didn't know! RIP.
@@MrSteveGrey I'm pretty sure they talked about the girl, unless she also died in 2018
She probably quit singing after this traumatic experience
This is exactly what is wrong with teachers. We lack great ones. Great singers don't always make great teachers.
Completely agree.
Bullshit.
I personally think teaching singing must be hard as fudge. You can only go so far as to what you're trying to get the student to do, and even if you get the idea across, the student himself has to get his body to work and dominate it. I'm pretty sure this girl eventually caught up with it.
I gree
She's not bad at teaching, the student is just missing some of the fundamentals of breathing coming into a masterclass. You can't teach support in an hour. Typically these masterclasses are to fine tune, not teach more foundational stuff.
Amada Montserrat te has ido a cantar a la gloria de Dios, te queremos y extrañamos, bendecida
Incredibile come si arrivi già a cantare lirica quando ancora non si ha capito come funziona la respirazione...Certi insegnanti sono da fucilazione e la Caballè si ritrova a dover far lezione sulle basi!!!*_* Molto paziente e carina lei però..^_^
That must be absolutely miserable for Montserrat. Does anyone know if she's still doing master classes? I don't think she gets around well anymore - I believe she uses a wheelchair often.
Grande Caballe parla delle cose che pochi conoscono) Queste cose sul fiato conoscevano i grandi cantanti del secolo scorso, come Pavarotti, Sutherland, Mirella Freni ecc., loro sì che avevano un suono ben appoggiato e potevano cantare anche a 70 anni e oltre senza rovinarsi le corde vocali. I giovani cantanti di oggi non so se durano così a lungo.
Estimado melómano livastellamusic completamente de acuerdo contigo, has tomado por ejemplo a dos de los cantantes perfectos en la respiración y uso del diafragma Sutherland y Pavarotti
Descanse en paz Sr. Montserrat en el cielo hay otra estrella brillante
@Serinia4melodic - pure appoggio dictates a pulled in stomach for the whole phrase but I have found you can achieve to the same solidness of support without pulling in the stomach so harshly. Unless you are singing very long phrases on one breath you don't need to pull it up at all. The power comes from the rectus abdominus muscles, obliques and pelvic diaphragm area. In simpler terms, the muscles to your sides and in the mid and small of your back.
Rectus abdominis? Do you mean your transverse abdominis?
This is a very common problem in lots of students, I used to have that problem and after not practicing that much it sometimes pops up automatically, but I am now conscious of when it happens and what to do. Support is basic for great sound and projection and ease to sing which is the main key to staying healthy.
I herd so much improvement after hands on. That's a great teacher that have so much patient.
priceless look on her face when that singer hit that fisrt painful note... hahaha quick flinch!!!
Schwarzkopf never charged for classes either.
I NEED PART TWO! I NEED PART TWO!
I wish I could have learnt to sing from her
I find it quite disturbing to watch. Yes, the abdominal wall has to be released (and some other areas too) so that the diaphragm can settle and produce that easy, heavenly sound. But it will never happen by any external manipulation, or pressure.
Ich stimme Ihnen voll zu. Mit diesem Drücken von dem Bauch kann niemand eine schöne Stimme erreichen. Der Unterkiefer, die Zunge, alles ist beie der jungen Sängerin verspannt, sie muss erst OHNE DRUCK singen zu können und was Frau Caballe ist genau das Gegenteil von dem was die Sängerin braucht.
Вместо вдавливания живота,лучше бы показала этой ....которая только ездит по нотам 🤦🏻♀️
Her Majesty Primadonna Montserrat Caballè giving Master Class !!!
What a lucky student!
She was amazing person
Probably u are waisting time but this nonsence comment. Awrybody needs a time to learn, sombody more sombody less, u should have respect to awrybody!
Could someone explain to me. Is Monsterrat saying that we should try to support the voice with the abdomen before we actually sing the note?
Im an amateur singer but would love to understand
Thank you!
This girl isn’t “supporting” because she clearly is a much smaller lyric soprano that somewhere was told she was a full lyric/Puccini soprano (revealed by the Ebben verismo aria at the end). Her brain is not in touch with the size of her voice and hasn’t accepted it, therebefore the body isn’t singing beautifully, and pushing/yelling as Monserrat is noticing. I doubt that the diaphragmatic support Monserrat is teaching here would save this singer from anything, when the real problem is she has not been trained in her correct fach.
The Master of Breathing is watching, what a pressure...
I know, sad that some of the last things we ca see on her as far as preforming, she definitely was not in a good shape, she was great
Sooo True and sooo difficult to practise...😯my voice teacher always tries to explain but i think i'm too dump for understanding 😭😭
Montserrat looks great! Thinner and younger! And always nice and kind.
The student does not understand the need to anticipate, to increase the pressure before singing the note one octave higher. This is exactly what I teach my students
I didn’t quite get that. Increase the pressure in the belly? Can you explain more？
@@hychen4018 The belly has nothing to do here. You have not taught how to breathe !
The way Montserrat looks over at her when she's singing her scales. we were ALL thinking the same thing! "You're very green"...🤣 Poor girl. She just wasn't taught correctly.
From the girl's age and her wobble of vibrato her teacher should already be on her about using more breath support and less neck/jaw tension to make her tone. She has a wonderful resonance, but it is rather unhealthy and Ms. Caballe is trying to get that point across in many ways. It is unfortunate that so many young singers are going the way of "too big, too loud, too heavy" and ruining their voices in the process.
she really cared about opera...i adore her ...
There is an interview of her in the Jerome Hines book, "Great Singers on Great Singing" where she states these things.
Hi. She is not in the book unfortunatelly
that singer sound so bad
Caballe le dice alla ragazza che deve di utilizzare il suo stomaco primo della la gola. La ragazza non capisca bene ma caballe continua con il suo lavoro di insegnarle come cantare in modo appropriato senza rovinare la sua voce.
Does anyone know if that girl managed to be a professional singer? Who is?
Properly supported, that is.
That's a big aria she's singing. So challenging!
Awww I wish she would teach me how to sing Opera :'s
la superba !! ... que fue bendecida x los dioses... hermoso talento
"I want a note, not a scream"" ouch...
Does anyone online teach in this manner? I'd like to take lessons with this foundation.
Marveilleuse singer and great personality RIP
like like like!!!!!
@MrCafiero Ponselle said, "always push the abdomen out during the whole phrase, not in."
Silver Singing Method Ponselle was ok but I wouldn't recommend "pushing" anything in singing
@Remalia19 - yes classic appoggio technique. Expanded rib cage and a downwardly compressed diaphragm. The girl here is not compressing before she sings - she is singing then compressing. That is why in her earlier scales her voice sounds harsh and unbalanced.
@Jeanne90275 She didn't sing the whole aria, Montserrat stopped her at this point. I will be uploading another clip with another singer who did sing it though, in fact she went on to sing it at the final concert on the Thursday.
Helen Fischer is much better singer than Caballe, I like blond singers.
this was 2011?
so she was teaching at 78?
@Remalia19 She means that the breath has to come before the sound. The note must be supported by the air to give it resonance. Unsupported notes sound "screamy" and do not project. If you are singing in a huge theatre you have to ensure that you are audible and this is how she is explaining to do it. You have to use the diaphragm to support the sound xx hope that helps
How do we support the very first note in the phrase? Does the breath begin to move just before the initial onset?
Notvtorture i love opera singing