Pauline Viardot

Pauline Viardot

Pauline Viardot (18 July 1821 – 18 May 1910) was a 19-century French mezzo-soprano of Spanish descent. She also taught and composed. She was instrumental in getting Camille Saint-Saens's Samson and Delilah composed and staged.

Pauline Viardot Media

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  Pauline Viardot by Carl Timoleon von Neff (1842)

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  Pauline Viardot at the piano listening to Frédéric Chopin. Sketch.

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  Salon of Mme Viardot,article from L'Illustration, 19 March 1853
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  Portrait of Pauline Viardot (1853), by Eugène Pluchart

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  Bust of Viardot 2004 by Birgit Stauch in Baden-Baden

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  Lithograph of Pauline Garcia by Bernard-Romain Julien