She was born Spanish in Paris under the Empire, of a bigamous father and a pious mother.
Both sang opera, and dogs do not make cats: María de la Felicidad García would in turn become one of the most beautiful voices of her time.
A diva announcing the greatest of the following century.
Through his career as through his life, romantic, grandiose, tragic.
Meeting with Rossini at age 7, in Naples where his parents perform.
Spartan education in Paris - her father is so hard that she learns, despite herself, to sing while crying… After London, direction New York, where it is a question of making discover Italian opera in the New World.
Here she is in Rosine in
The Barber of Seville
:
among the spectators is Joseph Bonaparte, who kisses her hand at the end of the show.
Besides Rossini, it was Mozart and his
Don Giovanni
that the family troupe then introduced to the Americans.
Her stage name is now Malibran, named after the native (of French origin) she
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