Caroline Unger [SEP] voice type
Caroline Unger
Caroline Unger (sometimes "Ungher"; 28 October 1803 – 23 March 1877) was an Austro-Hungarian contralto, alternatively known as Karoline, Carolina, and Carlotta.
Born in Vienna (or, according to some sources, in Stuhlweißenburg, today Székesfehérvár) she studied in Italy; among her teachers were Aloysia Weber Lange and Domenico Ronconi. Her stage debut, in her native city, came in 1821, when she performed in Mozart's "Così fan tutte", a performance for which Franz
an admirer of his philosophy, François Sabatier-Unger, who had recently wed the palazzo's owner, the Austrian singer, Caroline Unger.
During the Second Empire, he executed a full-length official sculpture of Napoleon III, which is still at Compiègne. In 1866 he was commissioned to provide a sculptural centrepiece for the Medici Fountain in the Jardin du Luxembourg, one of the few survivals of Salomon de Brosse's gardens for Marie de Medici; the "nymphaeum" of rockwork in an architectural frame was being