"Viardot was a great female composer as well as singer. She was the sister of Maria Malibran, for whom Rossini composed a lot. He and Bellini were big admirers of Malibran and all the family. Their father, Manuel Garcia, was the first tenor who sang the Barber in Rossini's The Barber of Seville."

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