Her father was an
officer of the Neapolitan army and she was already orphaned when she was four.
She studied singing under Jean de Reszke and Pauline Viardot-Garcia in Paris.
In 1908, during a guest performance at the Berlin Court Opera, she caused a sensation
as Aida and from 1911 to 1914 she was a member of this opera house. In 1912 she
performed at the Hofoper in Munich, in 1913 at the Grand Opéra in Paris, where
she performed as Valentine in "Les Huguenots" of G. Meyerbeer. In the
1914-1923 seasons she was engaged by the German Opera House in
Berlin-Charlottenburg. Although in the 1924-1926 seasons she again appeared at
the State Opera (the former Hofoper) in Berlin, but came back in 1926 to the
German Opera House, where she continued her career until 1932. In 1926 she
created for Berlin the title role in G. Puccini’s opera "Turandot",
where she scored one of her greatest successes. In 1927 she was a guest at the
Dresden State Opera, in 1922 and 1928 at the Vienna State Opera, in 1928 at the
Riga Opera House. She also made guest appearances in Holland and Belgium, but
never in her native Italy. At the beginning of the thirties she married the
Lithuanian Ambassador in Germany. After her retirement she lived in the Swiss
canton of Ticino.
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