- She starred in "Tosca" at Monte Carlo and then sang in Paris. Her co-star at the New York Metropolitan Opera was the great Enrico Caruso. They appeared in "I Fedora" and "Manon Lescaut". Cavalieri became so carried away with Caruso that she once kissed him passionately on stage.
- Well into her sixties when World War II began, she nevertheless worked as a volunteer nurse.
- In 1915, she returned from France to her native Italy to make motion pictures. When that country became involved in World War I, she went to the United States, where she made four more silent films. The last three of her films were the product of her friend, the film director Edward José. Almost all of her films are considered lost.
- In 1904, she sang at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo then in 1905, at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre in Paris, Cavalieri starred opposite Enrico Caruso in the Umberto Giordano opera Fedora. From there, she and Caruso took the opera to New York City, debuting with it at the Metropolitan Opera on 5 December 1906.
- Cavalieri was killed on 7 February 1944 during an Allied bombing raid that destroyed her home in Florence near Poggio Imperiale, where she had been placed under police surveillance because of her foreign husband. Hearing an American bomber nearby, Cavalieri, her husband, and the servants ran to the air-raid shelter in the grounds, but Cavalieri and her husband were delayed because they were collecting her valuable jewellery from the house. Both Cavalieri and her husband were killed running to the air-raid shelter, while the servants inside the shelter all survived.
- The Russian Prince Alexander Bariatinsky was deeply in love with Lina, and they had an open affair, but never became husband and wife as his parents and Tsar Nicholas II himself strongly opposed this marriage.
- In 2004, a book was published, written by Paul Fryer and Olga Usova, titled Lina Cavalieri: The Life of Opera's Greatest Beauty, 1874-1944.
- In 1914, on the eve of her fortieth birthday - her beauty still spectacular - she wrote an advice column on make-up for women in Femina magazine and published a book, My Secrets of Beauty.
- She took voice lessons and made her opera debut in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1900 (as Nedda in Pagliacci).
- After retiring from the stage, Cavalieri ran a cosmetic salon in Paris.
- During her career, Cavalieri sang with other prominent singers, including Giuseppe Anselmi, Mary Garden (the world premiere of Massenet's Chérubin, 1905), Mattia Battistini, Titta Ruffo, Feodor Chaliapin, Nikolay Figner, Antonio Scotti, Vanni Marcoux, Giovanni Zenatello, Tito Schipa, and the French tenor Lucien Muratore, whom she married in 1913 after his divorce from soprano Marguerite Bériza.
- During the 1909-10 season she sang with Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera Company.
- Lina Cavalieri's discography is slim. In 1910, for Columbia, she recorded arias from La bohème, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Carmen, Mefistofele, and Faust, as well as the song, "Maria, Marì! (Ah! Marì! Ah! Marì!)." In 1917, for Pathé, the soprano recorded "Le rêve passé," with Muratore.
- Her first marriage long over, she had a whirlwind romance with Robert Winthrop Chanler (1872-1930), a member of the Astor family and Dudley-Winthrop family. They married on 18 June 1910 but separated by the end of their honeymoon, and their divorce became final in June 1912.
- She became one of the most photographed stars of her time. Frequently referred to as the "world's most beautiful woman", she was part of the tightlacing tradition that saw women use corsetry to create an "hour-glass" figure.
- After her divorce in 1912, Cavalieri returned to Europe where she became a much-loved star in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, Russia.
- She lost her parents at the age of fifteen and became a ward of the state, sent to live in a Roman Catholic orphanage. The vivacious young girl was unhappy under the strict discipline of the nuns, and at the first opportunity she ran away with a touring theatrical group.
- Her portrait was painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini (acquired by Maurice de Rothschild) and by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury. The latter painting is now the property of the Metropolitan Opera, the gift of Nicholas Meredith Turner in memory of his wife, the soprano Jessica Dragonette. Hers is the inspiring beauty that appears in several works by Piero Fornasetti.
- At a young age, she made her way to Paris, France, where her appearance opened doors and she obtained work as a singer at one of the city's café-concerts. From there she performed at a variety of music halls and other such venues around Europe, while still working to develop her voice.
- In 1955, Gina Lollobrigida portrayed Cavalieri in a movie of Cavalieri's life, Beautiful But Dangerous (also known as The World's Most Beautiful Woman).
- In her Parisian Institut de Beauté, she licensed Parfums Isabey Paris and not only sold Isabey perfumes, but developed in 1926 a range of beauty products. The same year, she launched her own perfume, called "Mona Lina", apparently inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
- From her first marriage to Alexandre Bariatinsky, Lina had one son, Alexandre Bariatinsky, Jr. He was serving in the Italian Army early in WW1 when she went to the authorities trying to find him, after the divorce she was apparently forbidden from seeing him again.
- Retiring again from the opera stage, this time permanently, Lina came to be one of the leading beauty specialists in Europe, at the height of her success owning a string of salons not only in Paris, but also in the Hotel Carlton at Cannes; the Hotel Roseraie at Biatritz; the Hotel de Paris at Monte Carlo; and another at Le Touquet.
- In Paris she had met, and fallen in love with, Prince Alexander Baratinski, scion of a rich Russian family and young man about town. Whether Lina and Baratinski were ever actually married is uncertain - she claimed there had been a ceremony, he refuted it - what is certain, however, is that he left her with a son, Alexandre.
- As the eldest of five children she was expected to help raise her siblings, and, as soon as she was old enough, to work to supplement the family income. She was sent to train as a seamstress, but lacking the talent or inclination for that profession turned instead to selling flowers in the streets of Rome and singing in front of rich houses. A local music teacher heard her singing in this way and offered her a few free music lessons, which led in turn to Lina finding work in the cafe chantant (musical open air cafes) of Rome.
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