She studied voice at the Milan Conservatory with Carolina Ferni (the mother of the baritone Eugenio Giraldoni) and made her professional début as Santuzza, in Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana", at the Teatro Regio di Torino in 1899.
She studied voice at the Milan Conservatory with Carolina Ferni (the mother of the baritone Eugenio Giraldoni) who herself had studied with Giuditta Pasta. She made her professional début as Santuzza, in Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana", at the Teatro Regio di Torino in 1899.