1. Ada Adini or Adiny was an American operatic soprano who had an active international career from 1876 up into the first decade of the 20th century.
12 Facts About Ada Adini
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Ada Adini possessed a large, expressive voice which enabled her to sing a broad range of roles that extended from the coloratura soprano repertoire to dramatic soprano parts.
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Ada Adini made five recordings with Fonotipia Records in Paris in 1905.
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Ada Adini married the Spanish tenor Antonio Aramburo while studying in Paris.
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Ada Adini made her professional opera debut in 1876 at the opera house in Varese, Italy, in the title role of Giacomo Meyerbeer's Dinorah.
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Ada Adini was then active with James Henry Mapleson's company in New York City, making her debut with the company in 1879 as Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto at the Academy of Music with Aramburo as the Duke of Mantua.
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Ada Adini was later heard with the company as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore to her husband's Manrico.
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In 1893 Ada Adini sang Brunnhilde in the Italian premiere of Richard Wagner's Die Walkure at La Scala.
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Ada Adini later repeated the role at the Teatro Regio di Torino and the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
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Ada Adini sang the role of Fredegonde in the world premiere of Cesar Franck's Ghiselle at the Opera de Monte-Carlo in 1896.
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Ada Adini wrote the libretto for Jules Massenet's Herodiade in which she sang the role of Salome in Monte-Carlo in 1903 with Emma Calve in the title role.
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Some other roles Ada Adini performed on stage were Anita in La Navarraise, Brunehild in Sigurd, Catherine of Aragon in Henry VIII, Charlotte in Werther, Chimene in Le Cid, Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Desdemona in Otello, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, Rachel in La Juive, Selika in L'Africaine, Simonetta in I Medici, Valentine in Les Huguenots, and Venus in Tannhauser.