Great Singers, Second Series

“I will do it, papa,” Maria Garcia whispers—and, under her father’s blazing stare, sings the passage she believes she cannot. The child who trembles before him will soon astonish an opera house with an audacious flourish of her own.

In the opera world of the early nineteenth century, Maria Felicia Malibran’s gifts seem to defy her voice’s rough edges and her father Manuel Garcia’s punishing discipline. George T. Ferris’s late-nineteenth-century portraits trace her rise from a young singer’s London debut to the stages of Paris and beyond, then turn to other artists named in the book’s subtitle, from Malibran to Titiens. Malibran’s originality wins applause, but her daring methods and fierce appetite for life bring their own perils. How did a voice once thought so imperfect become impossible to ignore?

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