Dame Nellie Melba GBE (born Helen Porter Mitchell; 19 May 1861 – 23 February 1931) was an Australian operatic lyric coloratura soprano. She became one...
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Hotel, London, to honour the Australian soprano Nellie Melba. In 1892, operatic soprano Nellie Melba was performing in Wagner's opera Lohengrin at Covent...
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During its early days it was closely associated with opera diva Dame Nellie Melba, after whom it was later named. In 1994 it became affiliated with Victoria...
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Look up melba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Melba may refer to: Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931), Australian soprano opera singer Melba Montgomery (1938–2025)...
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or topped with either melted cheese or pâté. It is named after Dame Nellie Melba, the stage name of Australian opera singer Helen Porter Mitchell. Its...
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produced by the Royal Opera House itself premiered on 1 July 1899 with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Zélie de Lussan as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and...
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Silvio. Soon after its Italian premiere, the opera played in London (with Nellie Melba as Nedda) and in New York (on 15 June 1893, with Agostino Montegriffo...
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List of Downton Abbey characters (category Cultural depictions of Nellie Melba)
marries Lady Mary Crawley and Matthew Crawley in the spring of 1920. Nellie Melba (Kiri Te Kanawa) gives an operatic performance at the Abbey in 1922,...
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in the TV series Offspring and as Dame Nellie Melba in the television series Melba. A shortened version of Melba was selected for screening as a film at...
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Australian soprano Nellie Melba, partnered him as Gilda. They would sing together often during the early 1900s. In her memoirs, Melba praised Caruso's voice...
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often performed in corroborees. At the beginning of the 20th century, Nellie Melba was one of the world's leading opera singers, and later popular music...
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Dame Nellie Melba Scholarship may refer to any of several prizes awarded by the great soprano or in her name. In 1911 Melba donated a scholarship of £30...
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Che gelida manina (G. Puccini) O soave fanciulla (G. Puccini) (with Nellie Melba) Del tempio al limitar (G. Bizet) (with Mario Ancona) Celeste Aida (G...
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John Bullock; Lady Rose's suitor (Recurring) Kiri Te Kanawa as Dame Nellie Melba; opera singer (Guest) Raquel Cassidy as Miss Phyllis Baxter; Lady Grantham's...
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for Melbourne's Royal Exhibition Building. He was the father of Dame Nellie Melba. Born in Forfarshire, Scotland, in 1829, David Mitchell emigrated to...
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Savoy. In 1893, he invented the pêche Melba in honour of the Australian singer Nellie Melba, and in 1897, Melba toast. Other Escoffier creations were...
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Capital Territory, Australia. The suburb of Melba is named after Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931), the first internationally recognised Australian opera soprano...
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play A Woman of No Importance to her; other celebrated friends included Nellie Melba, whose success in London was largely due to Lady Ripon's support, Nijinsky...
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Australian one-hundred-dollar note (category Cultural depictions of Nellie Melba)
1996, designed by Bruce Stewart, and features portraits of soprano Dame Nellie Melba and engineer and First World War general Sir John Monash, along with...
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Adelina Patti in 1906 Se saran rose recorded by Nellie Melba in 1910 Se saran rose recorded by Nellie Melba in 1907 Problems playing these files? See media...
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1928 claims an "American ice-cream" was named after Anna Pavlova: "Dame Nellie Melba, of course, has found fame apart from her art in the famous sweet composed...
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former Shire of Lillydale and is also notable as the burial site of Dame Nellie Melba (Lilydale Cemetery). It is both a residential area of metropolitan Melbourne...
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Ada Whiting (section Whiting and Dame Nellie Melba)
regularly completed of and for Dame Nellie Melba, in 1903, Whiting had completed two further miniature of Melba, who was regarded as a close friend A...
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Melba is a 1946 Australian radio drama about the life of Nellie Melba. and first broadcast by stations 3DB and 3LK 1946–1947 in fifty 30-minute episodes...
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arrived in 1861 aboard the John Masterman. Mylott became a protégé of Dame Nellie Melba and in 1902, she went to England with her to pursue an opera career outside...
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Savoy. In 1893, he invented the pêche Melba in honour of the Australian singer Nellie Melba, and in 1897, Melba toast. Other Escoffier creations, famous...
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age ten. Her interest in opera was sparked by gramophone records of Nellie Melba and Clara Butt. She won a number of vocal competitions when aged in her...
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following persons: The $100 note features world-renowned soprano Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931), and the distinguished soldier, engineer and administrator...
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Edited by Warren Bebbington, Copyright 1998 "Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931)". Melba, Dame Nellie (1861–1931) Biographical Entry – Australian Dictionary...
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dance teacher Nellie Melba (1861–1931), Australian opera soprano Nellie Lisa Melles, 2nd Baroness Burton (1873–1962), British aristocrat Nellie Burget Miller...
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