Ada Navarrete

Ada Navarrete (Mérida, Yucatán, July 20, 1890[1] — Mexico City, August 13, 1967), also seen as Ada Navarrete Tappan and Ada Navarrete de Carrasco, was a soprano opera singer from Yucatán, Mexico.

[2][3] Navarrete, a coloratura soprano, began as a professional singer in Mexico City.

[4][5] She became a member of the Boston Grand Opera in 1917, promoted along with Tamaki Miura by opera impresario Max Rabinoff,[6] to emphasize Boston's international company.

"Navarrete's voice is rather light in the lower register," explained one critic, "but this is more than atoned for by its marked sweetness in the upper.

[10] She had a contract with the Metropolitan Opera in New York,[11][12] and sang with Enrico Caruso when he toured Mexico in 1919.