Montserrat speaks about Freddie

Sir GH wrote:

Let's see Caballe sing a Queen song.  Then we'll see who the more versatile singer was.  Freddie singing Exercises In Free Love in his operatic falsetto is about the equivalent of her doing It's Late, so she's got her work cut out for her.

In my mind, it's all the more amazing that Freddie's take on opera was as good as it was without any institutional vocal training.

I tend to agree with you're post the most.  Of course a opera buff isn't gonna be impressed with Exercises in free love,  but as a music buff I think it's great, and sounds much more Impressive than cabelle would in singing it's late, stone cold crazy,  and another on bites the dust. Can you imagine that?....cabelle singing AOBTD?

Zebonka12 wrote:

I like Exercises in Free Love and it's a good example, but there again - I've had that going on my stereo and my mum (a huuuuge opera fan, has God only knows how many recordings by a bunch of names I couldn't recite) says "who is that?" interestedly.

[/QUOTE] I go "that's Freddie doing his opera thing". [/QUOTE]
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[/QUOTE] She looks at the stereo for a second and says : "awful". [/QUOTE]
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[/QUOTE] I wouldn't say it's awful; I quite like his take on opera.  But there again, it's a pastiché.  It is not the real thing, admirable as it is.  (Personally I much prefer what he did at the end of Manmade Paradise). [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]



yea, that's the same style at the end of man made paradise.  I like his take on that style, but I could understand a real opera fan saying it's awful.  My mother,  (not an opera fan)  loves when I play Queen songs.  Including some of his solo stuff like "exercise in free love" and "love me like there's no tomorrow".  she loves his voice.   Other friends who arn't huge fans of Queen are Impressed with barcelona and his take on opera.  It depends the way you look at it.  Most opera singers don't write their own music,  so I don't know how they could look down on a mercury or lennon.

Indeed!  It was, above all, a very interesting project.  I'd love it more if I weren't so biased against the 80's production of it, but there are some beautiful tunes on it.

LordOfAllDarkness wrote:

I'm Italian and have to say that Al Bano Carrisi isnt an opera singer either, he used to sing his poppy songs with his former wife and that's all. i don't like him at all he cannot be compared with Freddie absolutely

Ah ! this Al Bano is the one from Romina & Al Bano ?? ok, he´s got a good voice for high notes but, yes, nothing to do with an opera singer ... and of course comparing him with Freddie is useless.

Mike Hunt: "Most opera singers don't write their own music,  so I don't know how they could look down on a mercury or lennon." I don't think you need to write your own music to be an incredible artist (Daltrey for example); I just don't think that opera is more legitimate an artform than pop, soul, rock or other musical forms. Mercury was an incredibly vocalist, and so was Pavarotti. While I do prefer Mercury, I don't think that one was automatically better than the other, based on the kind of music he sang.

I know you don't need too be a songwriter to be a great artist,  but sometimes it seems like the opera world looks down on other forms of music,  When in fact they're no better.