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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List of Downton Abbey characters (category Cultural depictions of Nellie Melba)
of 1920. He also comes to Downton Abbey for dinner later that year. Nellie Melba (Kiri Te Kanawa) gives an operatic performance at the Abbey in 1922,...
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up melba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Melba may refer to: Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931), Australian soprano opera singer and subject of: Melba (radio...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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(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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Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The suburb of Melba is named after Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931), the first internationally recognised Australian...
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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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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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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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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 were...
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actress, choreographer, dancer and dance teacher Nellie Melba (1861–1931), Australian opera soprano Nellie Morrice (1881–1963), Australian army and bush...
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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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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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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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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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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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and renamed the Spiegeltent "The Melba Spiegeltent", after the Australian opera soprano Dame Nellie Melba. The Melba Spiegeltent is now permanently situated...
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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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1400 0.955 Yellow Southern Cross "50" 1995–2016 4 Oct 1995 $100 Dame Nellie Melba Sir John Monash 158 × 65 × 0.1408 1.006 Green Lyrebird "100" 1996–2017...
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official publicised sound broadcast in the United Kingdom, featuring Dame Nellie Melba at the New Street Works, the first purpose-built radio factory in the...
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of life in Australia, and performing artists like opera singer Dame Nellie Melba made a mark internationally in classical European culture. During the...
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Old London Foods (section Melba toast)
company's oldest product successes was its line of Melba toast. Melba toast dates back to 1897, when Nellie Melba complained to chef Auguste Escoffier that her...
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