Viardot-Garcia, Michelle Ferdinande Pauline

Viardot-Garcia, Michelle Ferdinande Pauline (18 July 1821, Paris; 18 May 1910, Paris), vocalist, was the second daughter of the famous singer Manuel-Vincent Garcia , whose eldest daughter was the victim of an unhappy marriage to M. Malibran . As a child of three, she left Paris for London, where her father had a singing engagement, and she sailed for the United States in 1825 because he had decided to tour North America with his own troupe. After the unhappy marriage of his daughter Maria to M…