García, Manuel del Populo Vicente
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García, Manuel del Populo Vicente (
b Seville, 1775;
d Paris, 1832). Sp. tenor, composer, and singing teacher. Choirboy, Seville Cath., at age 6. Sang in Paris 1808 and 1819–23, Naples 1811–16, creating Almaviva in
Il barbiere di Siviglia, and London 1817–19. Sang Almaviva in première of
Il barbiere in Paris, London, and NY. Returned to London 1823, founding singing sch. Est. It. opera co. in NY 1825–6, giving US première of
Don Giovanni with da Ponte in audience. Took co. to Mexico 1827–8 where bandits robbed him of all his earnings (some £6,000). Returned to Paris first as a singer, then teacher. Comp. 97 operas. Pupils incl. his daughters Maria
Malibran and Pauline
Viardot.
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CDs: PAULINE VIARDOT-GARCIA: LIEDER, CHANSONS, CANZONI, MAZURKAS.
Magazine article from: Opera Canada; 3/22/2005; ; 565 words
; ...singer and composer Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Bayrakdarian celebrates...legendary Maria Malibran. Garcia's pedigree stood her...died young, leaving Pauline, aged just 16, to...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Viardot-Garcia travelled extensively...
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DISC: CLASSICAL: Viardot/Garcia: Songs Bayrakdarian, Kradjian ANALEKTA
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 6/12/2005; ; 316 words
; ...family of celebrated singers, Pauline Viardot-Garcia was a leading light of 19th...recital shows the delicacy of Viardot- Garcia's chansons, lieder, mazurkas...Bayrakdarian effects a reincarnation of Viardot- Garcia. Her French, Italian and German...
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PAULINE VIARDOT AND FRIENDS
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 9/1/2007; ; 605 words
; ...Live 2/27/2006 Music by VIARDOT, ROSSINI, GARCIA, GOUNOD, MEYERBEER, CHOPIN...brilliant idea, resuscitating Pauline Viardot, a fascinating 19th-century...youngest daughter of Manuel Garcia (creator of the role of Almaviva...
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Anna Caterina Antonacci, Frederica von Stade and Vladimir Chernov: "PAULINE VIARDOT AND FRIENDS"
Magazine article from: Opera News; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Vladimir Chemov "PAULINE VIARDOT AND FRIENDS...by Vtardot, Garcia, Rossini...century musician Pauline Viardot does little...Analekta CD of Viardot's songs is...Manuel Garcia, Rossinian...that included Pauline, her sister...
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Viardot: Cendrillon
Magazine article from: Opera News; 4/1/2001; ; 616 words
; ...Daughter of Manuel Garcia (Rossinis's first...intellectuals, mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot (1821-1910) was one...Callas a century later, Viardot enthralled audiences...vocal dross, though, Viardot spun the purest lyric...
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The woman who tortured and nurtured Turgenev.(Short Story)
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the hand of his dear friend Pauline Viardot-Garcia, the celebrated opera singer, and embraced her husband, Louis Viardot, who was her manager and booking...friends and enemies, in which Pauline Viardot or Ivan Turgenev or both appear...
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RECITAL: Isabel Bayrakdarian and Serouj Kradjian
Magazine article from: Opera News; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Bayrakdarian and Serouj Kradjian * "SONGS" by Pauline Viardot-Garcia. Kradjian, piano. Texts and translations...fascinating figures of the nineteenth century, Pauline Viardot-Garcia grew up in the royal family of bel canto: her...
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Cecelia Bartoli at Symphony Center
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/5/2001; ; 644 words
; ...and two songs by the French composer and singer Pauline Viardot-Garcia. Some of it-like Rossini's "La regata veneziana...Rossini's dramatic cantata "Joan of Arc" and Viardot-Garcia's mournful "Hai luli," was less so. Bartoli...
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New Releases: Classical
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/21/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Larmore sings the vocal ornaments devised by Pauline Viardot-Garcia for the 1859 production, and she is splendid...and his Orphee, Anne Sofie von Otter, sings the Viardot-Garcia additions even more elegantly. I doubt that many...
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Obituary: April FitzLyon
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/24/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...separate biographies of two singing sisters, first Pauline Viardot Garcia, one of the great divas of 19th-century France...the long-standing and ambiguous relationship between Viardot and Turgenev, and threw light on both artistic and...
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Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pauline Viardot-Garcia , 1821-1910, French mezzo-soprano; sister of Maria Malibran; pupil of her father, Manuel García . Following...
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...he found his true vocation. In 1843 Turgenev met the woman with whom he struggled for the rest of his life. Pauline Viardot-Garcia belonged to a talented Spanish family of gypsies. When Turgenev first saw
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