Montserrat Kabalier died

In Barcelona at the age of 85, the world-famous Spanish opera singer Montserrat Kabalier died, BBC reports .

Kabalier died on Saturday morning in the San Pau hospital in the capital of Catalonia. The fact that the singer was hospitalized became known in September. The cause of death is not called - the family asked the hospital about this hospital.

The singer’s creative career lasted more than 50 years. She performed almost 90 roles and about 800 opera works, also performing with such famous opera singers as Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. Caballe has received worldwide recognition thanks to the beauty of the voice and the dramatic reading of roles. Fans called her La Superba (excellent. - Spanish ).

In 1992, Kabalier performed the song "Barselona" at the opening of the Summer Olympic Games in the Catalan capital, together with the vocalist of Queen, Freddy Mercury. The song, first released in 1987, became the anthem of the Olympics in Barcelona.

Kabalier was born on April 12, 1933 in Barcelona in a simple family. At seven years, she showed extraordinary musical abilities, performing the cantata of Bach, and at the age of nine entered the Musical School at the Barcelona Opera Theater "Liseo".

After graduating from the school, Kabalier in 1953 went to Italy, where she initially received small roles. On January 7, 1962, she debuted on the stage of the Liseo Theater at the opera of Richard Strauss Arabella.

The singer gained worldwide fame after she spoke on the stage of Carnegie Hall in New York in the opera of Gaetano Donitonetti Lucretius Borgia.

In 1985, Kabalier was treated for a benign brain tumor, in the 90s she had heart problems.

In April of this year, Kabalier spoke at a jubilee concert in Kiev.