Ada Adini by Rossi

Ada Adini, born Adele Chapman (1855-1924); American soprano.
She studied singing with Giovanni Sbriglia and Pauline Viardot in Paris. She married the Spanish tenor Antonio Aramburo (1840-1912) while studying in Paris. She made her professional opera debut in 1876 at the opera house in Varese, Italy in the title role of Meyerbeer's "Dinorah". She was then active with the Mapleson Company in New York City, making her debut with the company in 1879 as Gilda in 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" with her husband as Manrico. In 1882 she joined Bartolomeo Merelli's traveling opera troup with whom she performed in Berlin (1882) and Prague (1883). From 1887-1890 she was engaged by the Grand Opéra Paris where she created the role of the Duchesse d'Étampes in the premiere of Camille Saint-Saëns' "Ascanio" (1890). In 1893 she sang Brünnhilde in the Italian première of Wagner's "Die Walküre" at La Scala Milan. In 1894 and 1897 she was heard in London at Covent Garden as Donna Anna in Mozart's "Don Giovanni". She made further guest appearances in Naples, Zagreb, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Germany, Russia and South America. She created the role of Frédegonde in the première of César Franck's "Ghiselle" at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in 1896. Her second husband was the opera librettist and writer Paul Milliet. After retiring from the stage she was active as a singing teacher.