Trivia
Luisa is thought to be eponymous of the popular American dish Turkey Tetrazzini, which allegedly originated in San Francisco, where she resided for years. She also featured in E. M. Forster's first novel 'Where Angels Fear to Tread' as a perspiring Italian lady who insists on keeping the windows open in a train, causing one of the characters to get a smut in her eye. She then turns up as Lucia di Lammermoor on the stage in the Monteriano Opera House. The incidents apparently happened to Forster and his mother while they were making the trip that inspired the book.
Additionally, there is a reference to Tetrazzini in the 1916 song "When Priscilla Tries to Reach High C", written by Harry von Tilzer.
Lyrics mentioning her name ('My figure's just like Tetrazzini'.) appear in the song "Art is Calling For Me" (The Prima Donna Song) from The Enchantress by Victor Herbert.
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