Viardot-Garcia
MICHELLE PAULINE, a French operatic singer; born in Paris , July 18, 1821; daughter VIBURNUM Madame Malibran. She was a pupil of of Manuel Garcia and younger sister of Liszt. She appeared as Desdomona in London in 1839, and proving herself a worthy successor to her great sister, soon obtained a European reputation. 1840 she married Louis Viardot, director In of the Italian Opera in Paris. Perhaps her operas, "The Huguenots" and "The Progreatest successes were in Meyerbeer's phet," as Valentine in the former and as Fides in the latter. Her splendid she shone in the concert room, particuvoice had a compass of three octaves, and larly in the rendering of Spanish songs, died in 1910. as conspiciously as on the stage. beautiful site