Opera singer. A lyric soprano. she is probably best remembered for her time with the New York City Opera. Raised in New York City, she trained at Luigi Rossini's Rossini Opera Theater and elsewhere, bowed on Broadway at 15 in "Blossom Time", in 1945 was heard in "The Girl From Nantucket", had her October 24, 1946 first operatic performance with the American Opera Company as Blonde in Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio", and made her City Opera debut on April 18, 1948 as Gilda from Verdi's "Rigoletto". From then until her retirement from singing in 1960 she was one of City Opera's leading sopranos, singing such classic roles as the doll Olympia in Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann", Susanna from Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro", Musetta of Puccini's "La Boheme", Spohie from Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier", the title Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hansel und Gretel", and Norina from Donizetti's "Don Pasquale", as well as appearing in several lesser-known works, including the company premiers of Hugo Weisgall's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" and Douglas Moore's "The Devil and Daniel Webster". Adi's most famous creation was the title role in Lukas Foss' "Griffelkin" in 1955, a role in which she won the audience's heart as a ten year old boy/demon who has trouble adjusting to his job in Hell. She also sang Adele in Johann Strauss II's "Die Fledermaus" with the NBC Opera Theater in 1950 and on one occasion performed for President Eisenhower at the White House; after leaving the stage, she was active as a competition judge, director, and professor, serving as Chairwoman of the Opera Department and artistic director of the opera theater at the University of Hartford's Hartt School and as Chair of the Opera Department at Boston University, and as director of the Wolf Trap Opera training program. Adi eventually retired to South Florida and died in a car wreck; some 'live' recordings of her performances are preserved.