Emmy La Grua

[4] In December 1850, Emmy La Grua made her debut in Dresden as Alice in "Robert the Devil" by Giacomo Meyerbeer.

[5] Other roles included Donna Anna from Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and Rosine in The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini.

[8] In 1855, together with Cavaliere Antonio Porto, she undertook a two-year concert tour (with high fees) to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires.

[9] Afterwards she gave performances again in Paris, Vienna as well as Pest (today Budapest), in Saint Petersburg, Berlin and Munich.

In 1867 she married in Palermo the colonel respectively general Giacinto Carini (1821–1880),[14] an aide-de-camp of Giuseppe Garibaldi,[15] and retired from the public sphere.