See also:MARIE See also:MALIBRAN
F$LICITE (1808-1836), operatic See also:singer, daughter of Manoel See also:Garcia, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 24th of See also:March 18o8
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Her See also:father was then a member of the See also:company of the See also:Theatre See also:des Italiens, and she accompanied him to See also:Italy and See also:London
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She possessed a See also:soprano See also:voice of unusual beauty and
phenomenal See also:compass, which was carefully cultivated by her father
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She was only seventeen when, in consequence of an indisposition of Madame Pasta, she was suddenly asked to take her See also:place in The See also:Barber of See also:Seville at Covent See also:Garden
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She was forthwith engaged for the remaining six See also:weeks of the See also:season, and then followed her father to New See also:York, where she appeared in Othello, The Barber of Seville, See also:Don Juan, Romeo and Juliet, Tattered
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Her gifts as an actress were on a See also:par with her magnificent voice, and her gaiety made her irresistible in See also:light See also:opera, although her See also:great triumphs were obtained chiefly in tragic parts
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She married a See also:French banker of New York, named See also:Malibran, who was much older than herself
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The See also:marriage was an unhappy one, and Mme Malibran returned alone to See also:Europe in 1828, when she began the See also:series of representations at the Theatre des Italiens, which excited an See also:enthusiasm in Paris only exceeded by the reception she received in the See also:principal towns of Italy
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She was formally divorced from Malibran in 1835, and married the Belgian violinist, See also:Charles de See also:Beriot; but she died of See also:fever on the 23rd of See also:September 1836
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See See also:Memoirs of Mme Malibran by the comtesse de See also:Merlin and other intimate See also:friends, with a selection from her See also:correspondence (2 vols., 184o) ; and M
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Teneo, La Malibran, d'apres des documents inedits, in Sammelbande der internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft (See also:Leipzig, 1906)
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