Viardot, Pauline
(1821–1910)
Viardot, PaulineViardot, PaulinePauline Viardot (B * PARIS, 1821 – D † PARIS, 1910) One of the great contraltos of the 19th century, born Michelle Ferdinande Pauline Garcia, daughter of the celebrated Spanish tenor and composer Manuel del Popolo Vicente Garcia (1775 – 1832), who was the original Almaviva in Rossini's (1792 – 1868) Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816), and brother of Manuel Patricio Rodriguez Garcia (1805 – 1906), noted voice pedagogue and vocal scientist, who helped develop the…