From Maria Callas to Freddie Mercury, from Bellini to ABBA, from Casta Diva à The Winner Takes It AllClash Diva explores the same realm: that of iconic voices, unforgettable timbres and emotions brought to their highest pitch. For opera and pop music share the same intensity: a taste for drama, momentum, excess and naked fragility. In Bellini as in Queen, in Verdi as in ABBA or Michael Jackson, singing is about giving it your all: making the voice a theater, the breath a tension, the word an immediate truth.
These are arias and songs we know by heart, melodies that flow through us, voices we recognize in a second. Here, Bizet meets Dalida, Puccini meets Barbra Streisand, Verdi reaches out to Whitney Houston, while Madonna, Kate Bush, Björk and Amy Winehouse, each in their own way, extend the brilliance of the great operatic figures. The meeting between Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé remains the perfect emblem of a world where lyricism and pop meet in virtuosity, theatricality and absolute emotion.
