Headache Centre, Division of Neurology, SS Giovanni e Paolo Hospital, Castello 6777, I 30122, Venice, Italy.
Headache Centre, Department of Neurosciences, Padua University, Padua, Italy.
Neurol Sci. 2018 Oct;39(10):1819-1821. doi: 10.1007/s10072-018-3494-z. Epub 2018 Jul 10.
Maria Malibran (1808-1836) is one of the most famous sopranos of the nineteenth century. In 1825, along with her father, the renowned tenor Manuel Garcia, she introduced the Italian opera in America for the first time. The European debut in Paris (1828) definitively crowned her as a star. Thus, she was requested by the most famous European theaters. In July 1836, during an equestrian excursion in London, she fell from her horse dashing her head against the ground, resulting in a state of insensibility. Since that accident, she had suffered from continual headache and nervous attacks, but she continued to work. In September 1836, she attended a music festival in Manchester, but her health rapidly worsened: episodes of nervous attacks, headache, and fainting occurred with higher frequency. At the end of a representation, she was attacked by violent convulsions. In the following days, she was laid in a kind of stupor. Afterward, she died at the age of 28. The hypothesis that prolonged efforts during her performance could have provoked a rebleeding of a pre-existent chronic subdural hematoma should be taken into account as a possible cause of death.
玛丽亚·马利布兰（1808-1836 年）是 19 世纪最著名的女高音歌唱家之一。1825 年，她与著名男高音歌唱家曼努埃尔·加西亚（Manuel Garcia）一起首次将意大利歌剧引入美国。1828 年在巴黎的欧洲首演使她成为了一颗耀眼的明星。因此，她受到了欧洲最著名剧院的邀请。1836 年 7 月，在伦敦的一次骑马旅行中，她从马上摔下，头部猛烈撞击地面，导致昏迷不醒。自那次事故后，她一直遭受持续的头痛和神经发作的折磨，但她仍继续工作。1836 年 9 月，她参加了曼彻斯特的音乐节，但她的健康状况迅速恶化：神经发作、头痛和昏厥的发作频率更高。在一次表演结束时，她突然全身抽搐。接下来的几天里，她处于一种昏迷状态。之后，她在 28 岁时去世。长时间的表演可能导致先前存在的慢性硬脑膜下血肿再次出血，这一假说应被视为可能的死亡原因之一。
