Ada Adini
American soprano
Ada Adini or Adiny (1 March 1856 – February 1924) was an American operatic soprano who had an active international career from 1876 up into the first decade of the 20th century. She 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. She made five recordings with Fonotipia Records in Paris in 1905.
Life and career
Born Adele Schillinger in Boston to Elizabeth Doane, née Chapman (Boston, 31 January 1839 – 22 October 1863, Florence), and Franklin Benjamin Schillinger, Adini studied singing with Giovanni Sbriglia and Pauline Viardot in Paris. She married the Spanish tenor Antonio Aramburo while studying in Paris. She made her professional opera debut in 1876 at the opera house in Varese, Italy, in the title role of Giacomo Meyerbeer's Dinorah. She 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. She was later heard with the company as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore to her husband's Manrico.
In 1882 she joined Bartolomeo Merelli's traveling opera troupe with whom she performed in Berlin (1882) and Prague (1883). From 1887–1890 she was committed to the Palais Garnier where she notably created the role of the Duchesse d'Étampes in the world premiere of Camille Saint-Saëns' Ascanio (1890).
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