page_title: Giulia Grisi
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Giulia Grisi / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Giulia Grisi, also known as the Marchesa Giulia de Candia (May 22, 1811 in Milan, Italy – November 29, 1869 in Berlin, Germany) was an Italian opera singer.
context_page_description: Giulia Grisi was an Italian opera singer. She performed widely in Europe, the United States and South America and is widely considered to be one of the leading sopranos of the 19th century.
  Her second husband was Giovanni Matteo Mario de Candia, scion of a noble family of the Kingdom of Sardinia. She is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Her grave is marked "Juliette de Candia", styled in her married last name.
context_section_description: Born in Milan, Giulia Grisi was the daughter of Gaetano Grisi, one of Napoleon's Italian officers, and Giovanna née Grassini. She came from a musically gifted family, her maternal aunt Giuseppina Grassini (1773–1850) being a favourite opera singer both on the continent and in London.  Her older sister, Giuditta and her cousin Carlotta were both artistes, the former as a singer and the latter as a ballet dancer. Giuditta was the creator of the pants role of Romeo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi.
  Grisi was trained for a musical career, making her stage debut as Emma in Rossini's Zelmira in Bologna in 1828.
caption: Giulia Grisi, photographed circa 1860
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