Dame Nellie Melba, GBE (19 May 1861 - 23 February 1931), born Helen Porter Mitchell, was an Australian opera soprano, the first Australian to achieve international recognition in the form. Wikipedia
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... OF AUSTRALIA : DAME Nellie Melba STANDING ON THE STEPS OF PARLIAMENT HOUSE IN FRONT OF A MICROPHONE WITH ONLOOKING DIGNITARIES AND SPECTATORS] (c.1927) General Note: Information on ... colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/summary/summary.w3p...
In 1909, she bought a cottage at Coldstream , a small town 50 km east of Melbourne. The cottage is located at the current juncture of Maroondah Highway and Melba Highway (named in her honour). She also set up a music school in Richmond. ... If a sing wiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu/index.php/Dame_Nellie_Melba
Melba won acclaim at Covent Garden, London, and the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and subsequently in most of the leading opera houses of the world until her retirement. Divorced in 1900, she could be forthright, vain and scandalous. Australians saw her www.awm.gov.au/forging/australians/melba.htm
On 29 th September 1902 Melba returned to Australia after an absence of 16 years performing in Melbourne to an enthusiastic audience. Her Concert Tour included 5 engagements in Melbourne, 4 in Sydney and was believed to be worth more than 20,000 pounds f www.web-arts.com.au/MELBA.html
Nellie Melba 's European debut in 1887 in Brussels / Bruxelles was the starting-point of a sensationally succesful international singing career . As the diva of the London Covent Garden Theatre , she gave her farewell performance in 1926 , and followed t www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1267272
