Her friend George Sand discouraged her from accepting de Musset’s proposal. She nevertheless remained an outstanding pianist all her life.Īt the age of 17, she met and was courted by Alfred de Musset (the poet of the song Madrid above).
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She had wanted to become a professional concert pianist, even taking piano lessons with Franz Liszt. After Malibran’s death in 1836, Pauline became a professional singer instead. By the age of six she was fluent in Spanish, French, English and Italian, to which she later added German and Russian. Her sister was diva Maria Malibran.Īs a small girl, she travelled with her family to London and New York (where her father, mother, brother and sister gave the first performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in the United States). Her father, the spanish tenor, opera composer and singing teacher, Manuel García is still very well known for the book „School of singing“. Pauline García was born Jin Paris to the famous singer family.
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She was clearly a more upstanding person than Barnum, although the movie ignores most of his problematic real history.“The world has finally found a woman composer of genius” Franz Liszt The singer wished to open up a girls' music school in Stockholm, the city where she made her operatic debut at age 17. While Barnum's main goals in life seemed to revolve around earning himself fame and riches, Lind had as much dedication to charity in real life as she does in The Greatest Showman. "We are put together of precisely the same stuff," Lind wrote of Goldschmidt, according to Vanity Fair. They remained together until Lind passed away in 1887, and based on what Lind wrote about her husband, it sounds like they made a good pair. She ended up marrying her accompanist, Otto Goldschmidt, in 1852. Rather than become romantically entangled with Barnum, Lind largely stayed away from her well-known suitors, which included Frederic Chopin and Hans Christian Andersen. 11, 1850 in the Castle Garden in Manhattan, which sold out and attracted over 5,000 people. As the New York Times describes, Barnum acted as a modern-day publicist, or "hype man," if you will, who spread the word about the European sensation known as the "Swedish Nightingale." As portrayed in the movie, Barnum met Lind in Europe and certainly excelled at drawing a big crowd in the United States for the singer.
While romantic tension between Lind and Barnum was completely fictionalized in The Greatest Showman, a few things about their relationship were accurately portrayed in the movie. As Entertainment Weekly reports, Lind gave 93 concerts in America, which earned her $350,000, and Vanity Fair suggests those earnings would equal something closer to $20 million today. According to Vanity Fair, it wasn't a strained relationship that caused the opera singer to end her tour with Barnum early but rather, the singer just grew tired of life on the road after traveling for nine months. While Lind's feelings for Barnum end up ruining the two performers' relationship in the movie, nothing of the sort happened in real life. In both the movie and real life, Barnum had a wife named Charity (Michelle Williams). The movie portrays Barnum as being infatuated by the talented singer (played by Rebecca Ferguson), which leads Lind herself to fall for her U.S. Even though Barnum's colorful life didn't exactly need added embellishments in the film, The Greatest Showman - which is in theaters now - creates a dramatized telling of the relationship. Barnum brought her to the United States for a hugely popular national tour, but Lind and Barnum's relationship in real life was much different than how the movie musical portrays it. Barnum in The Greatest Showman, but the real talent of Barnum's lifetime was the Swedish opera singer, Jenny Lind. Hugh Jackman stars as circus founder P.T.
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