Her parents were Rosendo Segreda Zamora and Susana Filomena de los Dolores Solera Rodríguez.

[3] Segreda spent six months in Milan[a] before moving to Rome to study at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, where she won a prize and graduated some time between 1906 and 1909.

[1] On 6 February 1909 Segreda married Italian architect Enrique Cappella Palmieri, Marquis of Rocca San Felice and Baron of Caprofico, with whom she later had two children, Yolanda and Antonio.

[2] Segreda performed several times at the National Theatre of Costa Rica, singing with others including Melico Salazar [es].

[2] In 1916 she was invited by Amelita Galli-Curci to accompany her on a singing tour of South America, but refused for family reasons.