Emilia Fermino Matto

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About

Active Period

Genre
Circus
Subgenre

Geographic Location

Emilia (Emilia FERMINO MATTO; FERMEIRO; Signorina EMILIA; alias Signorina Emilia DALLE CASE)

About

A young lady, seven years old, and together wtih Signorina Anna, they were described as the “Brazilian Girls”, and sometimes as sisters, they were said to have been indentured to Dalle Case in Brazil, though it was evidently also assumed by some, and at least once reported, that they were his natural or adopted daughters.
See more at Australharmony, at https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DALLE-CASE-Emilia

Genre
Circus

Troupe Role (hasRole)

Role Title Role Description

From 1840 to 1843
Till 1843
Part of

Kinship and Relationship

Person Involved Kinship Type Kinship Role Other Kinship Role
No Kinship and Relationship information recorded.

Character (performed)

Character Type Description

Other Work (hasWork)

Work Title Work Type Work Description
No other work information recorded.

Routes

Departure Date From Arrival Date To Via
No routes information recorded.

Support (hasSupport)

Supporter Name Type of Support Support Description
No support information recorded.

Associated Performance(s)

Performance Name Production Festival Tour
Exhibition of Gymnastic, Athletics, and Other Exercises

Media

No media recorded.

Sources

Graeme Skinner (University of Sydney), “A biographical register of Australian colonial musical personnel–D (Da-Daz)”, Australharmony (an online resource toward the early history of music in colonial Australia): https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php; accessed 14 October 2025.

Contributor

Last Updated on:
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 pm
Contributors:
Alvin Lim
To Cite:
, and Lim, Alvin Eng HuiAlvin Eng Hui Lim.

2025. Emilia Fermino Matto. In Performing Archipelagos, edited by Kyueun Kim, Alvin Eng Hui Lim and Hedren Wai Yuan Sum. Singapore: National University of Singapore.

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