Manuel GarcÃa (tenor)
Manuel del Popolo Vicente García ( born January 22, 1775 in Seville, † June 10, 1832 in Paris) was a Spanish tenor and singing teacher and opera composer.
Life
García received his training as a chorister at the Cathedral of Seville, debuted at the age of 17 years as a tenor at the theater in Cadiz and then worked at various theaters of Spain as a singer, conductor and composer of operettas.
In 1808 he went to Paris, where he performed at the Opéra - bouffe and excited by his lively lecture dramatic sensation. Same applause he found in the major Italian cities as well as in London, where he was hired in 1824 as the first tenor at the Theatre Royal, having been previously the Paris with the Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini made known and thus this artist captured the hearts of the French had.
In 1826 he went as an opera impresario to America, where he won brilliant artistic and material success, at his home but had the misfortune near Vera Cruz to lose on the way from Mexico to the U.S. his fortune by a band of robbers.
In Paris arrived, he devoted himself exclusively to vocal music teachers skilled and trained until his death on June 10, 1832 a long series of excellent dramatic singer, among them his daughters Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot -Garcia. His son Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García was also a singing teacher and baritone.
Works (selection)
- Teresa Radomski (Eds. ): L' isola disabitata. Score. Middleton, Wis.: AR Ed, 2006 Series: Recent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, .. . ISBN 0-89579-594-9 42.