Luisa Villani

[1] Her grandfather was the Italian tenor Giuseppe Villani who had notably created the role of Peri in the world premiere of Antônio Carlos Gomes's Il Guarany at La Scala in 1870.

[1][2] She next appeared at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome in the roles of Desdemona in Giuseppe Verdi's Otello and Eva in Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

[3] On February 8, 1910, she portrayed the title role in the United States premiere of William Legrand Howland's Sarrona, or, The Indian Slave at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway.

[1] With the latter company she notably performed the role of Minnie in the first English language production of Giacomo Puccini's La fanciulla del West at the Poll's Theater in Bridgeport, Connecticut on October 27, 1911.

[6] She also performed at the Teatro Arbeu in Mexico City as Mimi in Puccini's La bohème in 1910,[7] and appeared with the Boston Opera Company as Leonora in Il trovatore in November 1910 with Carlo Galeffi as the Count di Luna.