' The greatest singer the world has ever known.'
(JAMES AGATE)
Written by PEGGY BRANFORD and Jill Balcon Brian Carroll
Ysanne churchman Godfrey Kenton David Timson and Lockwood West Narrator Ian Holm
In an age of prima donnas Maria Malibran was supreme: even Chopin, who was not easy to please, described her as ' fabulous Her operatic career began In 1825, when. at the age of 17, she sang Rosina in The Barber of Seville in London. Scarcely more than ten years later, she was dead.
In this documentary port-trait, the operatic roles for which she was celebrated, are sung by Victoria de los Angeles Teresa Berganza
Montserrat Cabatle Maria
Callas Christa Ludwig
Frediriea von Stade and Joan Sutherland Producer ALAN HAYDOCK :