About this site
The Manuel García School is an educational, non-commercial reference site about the García family of singers and teachers and the school of singing that descends from them. It is presented by The Old School of Singing®, whose teaching continues the García principles together with the other great Italian schools of the golden age of singing.
This site is not affiliated with the García family or with any institution bearing their name.
Editorial standards
- The biographies, chronology and glossary state facts, not opinions.
- Every page lists the sources it is based on.
- Where sources disagree, for example on exact dates, we follow the most recent scholarship.
- Corrections are welcome and will be made promptly.
How to cite this site
Images
Historical images on this site are reproduced from public-domain works. Some have been digitally restored from low-resolution originals; they are given for illustration and should not be used as primary evidence.
- Manuel García the father as Otello, lithograph, Paris, about 1821 (Bibliothèque nationale de France).
- Manuel García the father, portrait reproduced in M. Sterling Mackinlay, Garcia the Centenarian and His Times (1908).
- Manuel García the son, portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1905 (RISD Museum, Providence; CC0).
- Manuel García the son, photograph by the Carjat studio, Paris (Paris Musées; CC0).
- Maria Malibran as Desdemona, painting by Henri Decaisne, 1830 (Musée Carnavalet, Paris).
- Maria Malibran, portrait by Luigi Pedrazzi (Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Milan).
- Pauline Viardot, portrait by Ary Scheffer, 1840 (Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris; CC0).
- Pauline Viardot, photograph by Pierre Petit, Paris.
- Laryngoscopy illustrations after nineteenth-century engravings.
- Masterclass photograph © The Old School of Singing®.
Contact
For corrections, suggestions or academic enquiries, write to contact@theoldschoolofsinging.com.
Last updated: November 2026.