![]() ![]() Her letters give an intimate view of her vivacious personality, her friendships, and her liaisons. Malibran's short and frenetic life-she died suddenly while on tour at age twenty-eight-and her wildly successful career are documented with reviews of her performances and extracts from her prolific correspondence. ![]() Her roles in works by Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti performed in the leading opera houses of six countries, a flexible three-octave vocal range, and an impulsively effective acting style made her the object of fierce adulation. Maria Garcia Malibran was the "superstar" of nineteenth-century opera-a singer whose colorful career and new vocal style epitomized the age of bel canto. ![]()
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