Désirée Artôt de Padilla

Désirée Artôt was a Belgian soprano (initially a mezzo-soprano), who was famed in German and Italian opera and sang mainly in Germany. In 1868 she was engaged, briefly, to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who may have coded her name into works such as his First Piano Concerto and the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture. After her 1869 marriage to the Spanish baritone Mariano Padilla y Ramos, she was known as Désirée Artôt de Padilla or Désirée Artôt-Padilla.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9e_Art%C3%B4t

Désirée Artôt was baptized on June 14th in the church of Sint-Denys du Saint-Sacrement in Paris (3th. arr.). The document mentions that she was born on July 11th.

Her birth date is also mentioned on her marriage certificate: http://consultation.archives.hauts-de-seine.net/mdr/index.php/docnu...

(thanks to Pierre De Cat)