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    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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    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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  • Look up melba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Melba may refer to: Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931), Australian soprano opera singer Melba Montgomery (born...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • November 1886. One of the most notable performers to appear there was Dame Nellie Melba, who gave two concerts in the hall in 1893. The hall closed in 1895,...
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  • (1841-1904), text by Adolf Heyduk (1835-1923), performed by Australian singer Nellie Melba (1861-1931) in 1916. This is sung in English. Problems playing this file...
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    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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    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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    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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  • dance teacher Nellie Melba (1861–1931), Australian opera soprano Nellie Lisa Melles, 2nd Baroness Burton (1873–1962), British aristocrat Nellie Morrice (1881–1963)...
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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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    scheduled British radio concert, by the famed Australian opera diva Nellie Melba. This transmission was heard throughout much of Europe, including in...
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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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    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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  • The Tournament (Clarke novel) (category Cultural depictions of Nellie Melba)
    Rosa Luxemburg Mary McCarthy Nadezhda Mandelstam Katherine Mansfield Nellie Melba Margaret Mitchell Maria Montessori Georgia O'Keeffe Dorothy Parker Anna...
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    quartet, piano solo, cello, and even trombones. Opera singers, such as Nellie Melba, Franco Corelli and Luciano Pavarotti, as well as choirs have recorded...
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  • A Toast to Melba is a 1976 Australian play by Jack Hibberd. A biography of Dame Nellie Melba, Hibberd described it as: Another 'Popular Play' like The...
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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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    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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