MELBA

Nellie

19 May 1861 — 23 February 1931

AKA: née Helen Porter Mitchell, Nellie, Dame Nellie Melba 

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Additional Information

Special Achievements

  • Australia's greatest opera singer.
  • 1911 - First Australian opera super star.
  • First Australian singer to be recorded on cylinder.
  • First performer in the world to have an opera broadcast live on radio (England).
  • 1918 - Dame of the British Empire (DBE).
  • 1927 - Awarded Dame Grand Cross of the British Empire (GBE).
  • 1929 - Awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire.
  • 2001 - Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women.

Additional Information

  • She made her first public appearance at the age of six, singing Shells of the Ocean.
  • The classic Australian dishes “Peach Melba” and “Melba Toast” were named after her.

Resources

References

  • (1984/85, Summer).  (article unknown).  THIS AUSTRALIA, 50.
  • Bowring, Pat.  (1990, January 30).  Australian Trivia.  WOMAN’S DAY, 26-27.
  • Rocciccioli, Roland.  (date unknown).  Dame Nellie Melba’s favourite car.  (magazine unknown), page unknown.
  • (2000).  Melba – supreme soprano.  John Mapps (editor), Australia's Yesterdays:  The Illustrated Story of How We Lived, Worked and Played (165-169).  Sydney, NSW, Australia:  Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty Ltd.

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The Australian Women's Register

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Wikipedia

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Link - Dame Nellie Melba sings Tosti's "Mattinata." 1904

YouTube

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Mackay Region Visitor Information Centre

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Australian Dictionary of Biography

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Image - Dame Nellie Melba

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Image - Dame Nellie Melba, 1861-1931

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Image - Dame Nellie Melba in the role of Rosina from the Barber of Seville

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Image - Nellie Melba, her father David Mitchell, and Nellie Paterson

Nellie Melba, her father, David Mitchell, and a young girl (Nellie's niece, Nellie Paterson), in Melbourne

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