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Manuel (tenor) Garcia

ʻO ka mea nāna i hoʻokumu i ka moʻokūʻauhau o nā leo leo (keiki - Garcia MP, nā kaikamāhine - Malibran, Viardo-Garcia). I ka makahiki 1798, ua hoʻomaka ʻo ia e hoʻokani ma ke keaka. I ka makahiki 1802, ua komo ʻo ia i ka hoʻomaka mua o Sepania o The Marriage of Figaro (ʻo Basilio ʻāpana). Mai ka makahiki 1808, ua hīmeni ʻo ia i ka opera Italia (Paris). I ka makahiki 1811-16 ua hana 'o ia ma Italia (Naples, Roma, etc.). Ua komo 'o Rossini i ka ho'omaka 'ana o ke ao nei, me ka ho'okani 'ana ma Roma i ka hapa o Almaviva i ka makahiki 1816. Mai ka makahiki 1818, hana ʻo ia ma Lākana. I ka makahiki 1825-27, me ka poe himeni kamalii, ua kaapuni oia i ka United States. Aia i loko o ka repertoire a Garcia nā ʻāpana o Don Ottavio ma Don Giovanni, Achilles ma Gluck's Iphigenia en Aulis, Norfolk ma Rossini's Elisabeth, Queen of England. ʻO Garcia nō hoʻi ka mea kākau o ka nui o nā mele mele, nā mele a me nā haku mele ʻē aʻe. Mai ka makahiki 1829, noho ʻo Garcia ma Palika, kahi āna i hoʻokumu ai i ke kula hīmeni (ʻo Nurri kekahi o kāna mau haumāna). Ma ke koi a Garcia ua hoʻokani ʻia ka opera Don Juan ma Paris ma hope o kekahi mau makahiki o ka poina. Ua hāʻawi koʻikoʻi ʻo Garcia i ka hoʻomohala ʻana i ka hīmeni ʻana, he hoa kūʻē kūpaʻa ʻo ia i ka mea nui ma ka hopena o ke kenekulia 18. - nā mele soprano i ke kenekulia 19.

E. Tsoodokov