A resilient Montserrat Caballé, still singing into her 80s, has been forced to cancel upcoming concerts in April and May after breaking an arm. She had dates in Austria, Switzerland and Germany, including Vienna’s Konzerthaus, which announced that she would need to continue physiotherapy until the end of May.
Last October Caballé, then a sprightly 79, suffered a stroke while in Russia and, while briefly losing consciousness, fell and broke an arm. Reports are not clear whether she is still undergoing treatment for this arm, or whether she’s broken one again.
Caballé was 80 on 12 April.
Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano’) about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.
His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.
