Pauline Lauters-Gueymard by Disdéri (1)

Pauline Lauters-Gueymard (1834-1908); Belgian (mezzo)soprano who sang various premières. The most known are Blanche in Halévy's "La Magicienne", Massé's "La mule de Pedro" (1863), Balkis in Gounod's "La reine de Saba" (1862), Eboli in Verdi's "Don Carlos" (1867) and Queen Getrude in Ambroise Thomas' "Hamlet" 1868).

On the photo she is seen as Laura Salviati in Prince Joseph Poniatowski's opera "Pierre de Médicis". She created this role at the première by the Paris-Opéra on 9 March 1860.