Her letters give an intimate view of her vivacious personality, her friendships, and her liaisons. Malibran's short and frenetic life - she died suddenly while on tour at age 28 - and her wildly successful career are documented with reviews of her performances and extracts front her prolific correspondence. Her roles in works by Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti performed in the leading opera houses of six countries, a flexible three-octave vocal range, and an impulsively effective acting style made her the object of fierce adulation. Maria Garcia Malibran was the 'superstar' of nineteenth-century opera - a singer whose colorful career and new vocal style epitomized the age of bel canto.
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