Malibran, Maria Felicità

MALIBRAN, Maria Felicità, one of the most distinguished singers the world has ever seen, was born March 24, 1808, at Paris, where her father, Manuel Garcia, had arrived only two months before. When 3 years old she was taken to Italy, and at the age of 5 played a child's part in Paër's ‘Agnese,’ at the Fiorentini, Naples. So precocious was she that, after a few nights of this opera, she actually began to sing the part of...