MALIBRAN, MARIE

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MALIBRAN, MARIE F$LICITE (1808-1836), operatic singer, daughter of Manoel Garcia, was born in Paris on the 24th of March 18o8. Her father was then a member of the company of the Theatre des Italiens, and she accompanied him to Italy and London. She possessed a soprano voice of unusual beauty and
phenomenal compass, which was carefully cultivated by her father. She was only seventeen when, in consequence of an indisposition of Madame Pasta, she was suddenly asked to take her place in The Barber of Seville at Covent Garden. She was forthwith engaged for the remaining six weeks of the season, and then followed her father to New

York

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- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
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, where she appeared in Othello, The Barber of Seville, Don Juan, Romeo and Juliet, Tattered. Her gifts as an actress were on a par with her magnificent voice, and her gaiety made her irresistible in light opera, although her

great

GREAT

triumphs were obtained chiefly in tragic parts. She married a French banker of New

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  Gothic
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OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
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, named Malibran, who was much older than herself. The

marriage

MARRIAGE

was an unhappy one, and Mme Malibran returned alone to Europe in 1828, when she began the

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of representations at the Theatre des Italiens, which excited an enthusiasm in Paris only exceeded by the reception she received in the principal towns of Italy. She was formally divorced from Malibran in 1835, and married the Belgian violinist, Charles de

Beriot

BERIOT, CHARLES AUGUSTE DE (18cn-187o)

; but she died of fever on the 23rd of September 1836.
See Memoirs of Mme Malibran by the comtesse de Merlin and other intimate friends, with a selection from her correspondence (2 vols., 184o) ; and M. Teneo, La Malibran, d'apres des documents inedits, in Sammelbande der internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft (

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, 1906).

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