Maria Malibran
Spanish opera singer and composer · France · On the map · Musicians · Lived 1808 to 1836 · aged 28
Maria Felicia Malibran was a Spanish singer who commonly sang both contralto and soprano parts, and was one of the best-known opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran was known for her stormy personality and dramatic intensity, becoming a legendary figure after her death in Manchester, England, at age 28.
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Malibran's lover, Belgian violinist Charles Auguste de Bériot, next to her bust at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels portrayed in an 1838 lithograph; Malibran had died two years earlier.
La Malibran as Desdemona, François Bouchot, circa 1830, Louvre
Malibran depicted in a c. 1834 portrait
Malibran's Hotel, Brussels,1899 - a town hall today
Malibran in the façade of Teatre Principal, Barcelona (1847)
Malibran (date unknown) in Cecilia Bartoli, Maria 2007About this person
Contemporary accounts of her voice describe its range, power and flexibility as extraordinary.
