Pauline became famous, if not quite overnight, very rapidly. She gave her first Parisian performance at a salon a year later George Sand heard her sing shortly afterwards and immediately took an intense interest in her. (As a measure of Manuel Garcia's skill and renown, the role of Count Almaviva in Rossini's Barber of Seville was written for him.) But both Maria and Manuel were deceased by the time Pauline made her professional singing debut in the fall of 1837 at age 16. Pauline Garcia was the younger sister of the soprano Maria Malibran and the daughter of the singer, composer and vocal teacher Manuel Garcia. Pauline Viardot by Ary Scheffer, 1840 (detail).
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