EncyclopediaGarcía, Manuel del Popolo Vicente
García, Manuel del Popolo Vicente (mänwel' del pōpō'lō vēthān'tā gärthē'ä) [key], 1775–1832, Spanish tenor, teacher, impresario, and composer. His daughter was Maria Malibran. He was the first to produce opera in Italian in New York (1825–26) and in Mexico (1827–28). Pauline Viardot-García was also his daughter. His son, Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García. (pätrē'thyō rōdrē'gāth) [key], 1805–1906, left (1829) the operatic stage to teach at the Paris Conservatory (1830–48) and the Royal Academy, London (1848–95). Jenny Lind and Mathilde Marchesi were among his pupils. He invented (1854) the laryngoscope.
See biography by M. S. MacKinlay (1908).
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