Pauline Guéymard-Lauters

[4] Her Paris Opera debut was on 12 January 1857 in the premiere of the revised French version of Verdi's Il Trovatore, Le Trouvère (Léonore).

[1][5] Among other roles in Paris, she sang Valentine in Les Huguenots, Gilda in La Mule de Pedro, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Alde in Roland à Roncevaux.

[6] Lauters created the role of Princess Eboli in Don Carlos on 11 March 1867 at the Paris Opera.

[2] She also created Gertrude in Thomas's Hamlet in 1868 and Myrrha in La Coupe du roi de Thulé in 1873.

[1] After her retirement from the Opéra in 1876, she sang several times in Italian as Amneris in Verdi's Aida with the Théâtre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour.

Guéymard-Lauters c.1865 by unknown photographer