Giulia Grisi
Born: 2 May 1811
Died: 29 November 1869
Years active: 1828-1858
Giulia Grisi was an Italian soprano opera singer. She was born in Milan in 1811 to one of Napoleon's Italian officers,
Gaetano Grisi. She came from a musically gifted family with her aunt Giuseppina Grassini and older sister Giuditta Grisi both opera singers. She made her debut at the age of 17 in Rossini's Zelmira in 1828. She went on to enjoy a successful career which lasted for 30 years.
Leon Noel
Madamoiselle Julie Grisi (1832)
Lithograph
Portrait of Giulia Grisi
Giulietta Grisi,
the Celebrated Cantatrice at the Opera (1834)
Engraving
Portrait of Giulia Grisi for the World of Fashion
“For so long a time lasted the supremacy of Mme. Grisi, and it was justified by a remarkable combination of qualities, great physical loveliness, a noble voice, and dramatic impulse, which, if not precisely inventive, was yet large and sympathetic.”
George T. Ferris
Great Singers: Second Series
1881
Focosi
Giulia Grisi
Lithograph
Portrait of Giulia Grisi
A Maurin
Julia Grisi, du Theatre Italien
Lithograph
Portrait of Giulia Grisi
“Grisi united much of the nobleness and tragic inspiration of Pasta with something of the fire and energy of Malibran, but in the minds of the most capable judges she lacked creative originality which stamped each of the former two artists.”
George T. Ferris
Great Singers: Second Series
1881
Judith and Julie Grisi
Lithograph
Portrait of Giulia Grisi with her sister Giuditta Grisi