Along with Henriette Sontag, she was one of the leading operatic sopranos of her generation.
She was hired by the Italian Opera in Mexico City, where on 17 May 1854, she intoned for the first time the words of the Mexican national anthem, written by poet Francisco González Bocanegra.
The playwright Kurt Schall challenged him to a duel, and a satirical poem about Henriette Sontag in the Spenerschen Zeitung even led to a short term of imprisonment.
Susan Sontag | Henriette Sontag | Princess Henriette of France | Marie Anne Henriëtte Leopoldine de La Tour d'Auvergne | Henriette Davidis | Henriette Bie Lorentzen | Henriette Avram | Marie Henriette of Austria | Henriette of Cleves | Henriette H. Lannes | Henriette d'Orbe-Montfaucon | Henriette DeLille | Elisabeth Henriette of Hesse-Kassel | Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau | Countess Amalie Henriette of Solms-Baruth |
She was exceedingly successful, especially in concerts with Alboni and Sontag.
To avoid confusion with fanclubs of the singer Henriette Sontag, the name was changed to "Tunnel over the Spree," a topical reference to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's tunnel under the Thames, which would lead to an abortive effort to create a similar tunnel in Berlin.