Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Malvina Garrigues, later Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld (7 December 1825 – 8 February 1904) was a Portuguese operatic soprano who was born in Denmark and made her career in Germany. She and her husband Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld created the title roles in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in 1865. Her given name also appears as Malwina and Malwine but Malvina is the correct spelling.

Eugénia Malvina Garrigues was born a Portuguese citizen in Copenhagen, Denmark, the daughter of the Portuguese consul there, João António Henriques Garrigues (Jean Antoine Henri Garrigues), and his German wife of French descent (Nanette Palmier). Portugal's Queen Maria II assigned her father as consul to Denmark by decree of 17 November 1825. She was great-grand-niece of David Garrick. Her first cousin was Danish-American doctor Henry Jacques Garrigues.

She studied in Paris with Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García.

She made her debut in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le diable in Breslau in 1841, where she sang until 1849. From 1849 to 1853 she worked at the ducal Hoftheater at Coburg, and in Gotha and Hamburg. In 1854 she was engaged by the Karlsruhe Opera, where she met Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, who was ten years her junior. They appeared there together in such operas as Les Huguenots. They became engaged in 1857 and married in April 1860. The same year they were engaged by the Dresden Court Opera.

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