{"id":33248,"date":"2011-02-11T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=33248"},"modified":"2012-09-30T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T20:43:00","slug":"freddie-mercury-and-montserrat-caballe-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=33248","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe: &#8220;Barcelona&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FqhpUfkfODI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Freddie Mercury&#8217;s talent has always seemed a little bit otherworldly to me.  Touched by the gods.  Divine.  In the truest sense of the word.  <\/p>\n<p>Watch how he moves his body.  His open-legged stance at the very beginning, like he&#8217;s planting his feet on the boards, getting ready to go where the performance will take him.  He&#8217;s a showman, an entertainer, a born performer, from every hair on his head to the tips of every finger.  Every gesture, every breath, every look is all pouring into the intention of this song.  And that flow doesn&#8217;t stop when he&#8217;s not the one singing.  Watch his body during her sections.  He is tossing massive support under her, throwing his energy at her, filling up the stage at the same time that he is sharing the stage with her.  <\/p>\n<p>Kathy Bates came and spoke at my school once, and she said, &#8220;Look, if you have a gift for something, you just have to give it away.  All day, every day, just give it away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what Freddie Mercury does, instinctively, habitually, in every moment, always.  There is not one tiny bit of him that is not <i>fully present<\/i>.  And that, to me, is Divine.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddie Mercury&#8217;s talent has always seemed a little bit otherworldly to me. Touched by the gods. Divine. In the truest sense of the word. Watch how he moves his body. His open-legged stance at the very beginning, like he&#8217;s planting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=33248\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[2129,1629],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33248"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58733,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33248\/revisions\/58733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}