The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-03-20
DEATH OF MALlBRAN.
DRAMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT
SINGERS FATAL SWOON.

Response to the Demands Of an I'm patien
AudIence-Disastrou Results of - Ply NJ
clans Mistake-TerribI-M Minutes OF Tea
and Suspense Too Late
NJ legouve, IN his volume Of Souvenirs o
Sixty Years, jus, published, gives, anon,
many charming remembrance of Malilran
a dramatic account Of her death, the recita
Of which viii no, lie out Of point here i
was a, Manchester, in England, fifty year
ago Mahbran was at the summit ~ fam,
when she came thither accompanied by he
husband Beriot, the wonderful vjolinist, t,
attend musical festival. She was suffering
severely from the effects If a fall from
spirited horse which she had persisted u
spite Of many warnlngs-in mounting; bu
she made her appearance at the concert anG
sang like an angel As she stepped from thu
stage into the wings she fell in a swoon Out
side the audience was recalling her with that
frenzy which Anglo Saxon audiences put into
an encore when they wish 10 make a singer
sing more than She has been paid for The
swUOn continued ana the announcement was
about 20 lee made that Madame MahhraI
would not be able 70 appear again that even
ing.
The manager - the concerts was about
going upon the stage 10 face the impatient
audience, when Malitran opened her peerlrs,
ewes. arose, checked the manager aud-stag
gcring forward uutll she was in Nicw-scomcd
then all AZ once seized by an Inspiration, and
sang her encore more divinely than she had
ever been heard Ia sing before. She retired
under telnpcstuous applause, tut sank down
again in a doalthly faint a she reached ia,
friendly shelter Of the wings. She was car
ricd t. the green room. and "a physician wai
scut for.
TIE Ply SlCiANs FATAL MIsTAkE.
At the same moment, and without having
any suspicion that ms wife was in danger.
Bcriut who came next ON the programme.
stepped upon the stage from the opposIt,
wing With his believed violin. and began one
Of the astonishing airs with variations fol
which be- was famous Meantime l.ablache
who had seen Mahhran'S condition. had got
tue physician to her side, ana was Stupctied to
hear him say that she must be blod He haC
ALWAYS been told that she must never bc hlcc
in one ~ the fautlug itN following upon her
exalted words, for the bleeding would b,
fatal
at must not bee done" he cried To- the doc
tor she must bc bled, persisted the phy,i
clan cor sh, may die of suifocation in an in
stant!' NO, no, no pleaded Lablache; "d'
not dare "a ito il until | have brought ben
husband hcre-hut be l. at this instant on IN,
stage IL her husbands name speak. Wait
! will 90 and fetch him. I.ablachr rushoC
madly H. the wings Berlot was UOw in the
midst Of his great aria, and was calmly p,r
forming his artistic task At each frcst
wonder the audience shouted with delight
Iah!achc with death IN his heart, whispered
hcckoued frauticaily, even shouted TO Hcriut
but the unhappy husband, absorbed IN hr
art. heard nothing save the acClanlatiunS OF
hls auditors Lahlarhe was almost hes!d,
himself with fear and suspense, when at last
B,rIu. was liberated and left the stage. "Nom
wife has faintcd-is perhaps dying The!
wish 10 bleed her
Bcrot and Labache few together to tht
grccnro0m 1t was too late. From the
naked arm Of Mahhrau the blood was flowing
The physician, despite the warning of thost
who knew Mallbrans temperament better
than he did. had insisted upon opening vein
and thirty.SiX hours afteward Malibran We.
dead Lahlache used To say that among th,
most terrible minutes Of his life were thost
that hc passed while waiting in the wings toi
BeriUt to finish his variations Exchange.