{"product_id":"16251-garcia-manuel-garcia-as-don-giovanni-original-lithograph","title":"Garcia, Manuel. (1775–1832) Garcia as Don Giovanni - Original Lithograph","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eHand-colored \u003c\/span\u003elithograph engraving of the important Spanish tenor in his leading role in \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eDon Juan \u003c\/i\u003e(Mozart's \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eDon Giovanni.\u003c\/i\u003e) Engraved by G. Engelmann. ca. 1820.  Mounted on card with some toning, mounting remnants and notes to the verso of the mount; overall very good. 6 x 10 inches (15 x 25 cm).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eThe Spanish tenor, composer, director and pedagogue Manuel Garcia started into the opera world at the turn of the nineteenth century, first gaining fame in Spain and then by the 1810s in Naples (where he created the role of Norfolk in Rossini's \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eElisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra\u003c\/i\u003e) and Paris. He sang at the Théâtre Italien in Paris from 1816 and became wildly popular in roles such as Almaviva, Otello, and Don Giovanni (usually a baritone role, which he sang as a low tenor.) His son Manuel Garcia became an equally famous singer and pedagogue, and his two daughters Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot were two of the most celebrated singers in opera history.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eGottfried Engelmann (1788 - 1839) was a well-known German lithograph artist who was a pupil of the inventor of this graphic technique Alois Senefelder in Munich. He was also the first artist to introduce lithography into France.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093610975391,"sku":"16251","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Garcia_Manuel_Engraving_16251.jpg?v=1722189177","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/16251-garcia-manuel-garcia-as-don-giovanni-original-lithograph","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}