
	Where results make sense

Topic: Dame Nellie Melba

Related Topics

Peach Melba

Helen Reddy

Australian dollar

John Monash

Edith Cowan

Peter Garrett

Joan Sutherland

University of Melbourne

Music of Australia

Sergei Prokofiev

David Unaipon

Gerry Anderson

Banjo Paterson

Melbourne

Australia

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Dame Nellie Melba
		Dame Nellie Melba (May 19, 1861 - February 23, 1931), born Helen Porter Mitchell, was an Australian opera soprano, the first Australian to achieve international recognition in the form.
		She was appointed a Dame of the British Empire in 1918 and elevated to Dame Grand Cross in 1927.
		Her name is associated with two foods, a dessert (the Peach Melba[?]), and melba toast.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/da/Dame_Nellie_Melba (340 words)

	Nellie Melba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dame Nellie Melba in role of Rosina from the Barber of Seville
		Dame Nellie Melba, GBE (May 19, 1861 - February 23, 1931), born Helen Porter Mitchell, was an Australian opera soprano, the first Australian to achieve international recognition in the form.
		Despite the angelic voice that Nellie Melba was admired for, she, among many other singers, was known for her demanding, temperamental diva persona; often she would make last minute descions before a performance, and often would deliberately upstage other sopranos during their performances, grabbing the attention for herself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dame_Nellie_Melba (609 words)

	Nellie Melba: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Nellie Melba
		Dame Nellie Melba (May 19, 1861 - February 23, 1931), born Helen Porter Mitchell, was an Australian opera soprano, the first Australian to achieve international recognition in the form.
		She was appointed a Dame of the British Empire in 1918 and elevated to Dame Grand Cross in 1927.
		Her name is associated with two foods, a dessert (the Peach Melba[?]), and melba toast.
	www.encyclopedian.com /da/Dame-Nellie-Melba.html (346 words)

	Nellie Melba Information
		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.
		Melba was at heart an adventuress; motherhood and social conventions did not suit her, although later in life she was close to her son and grandson.
		She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918, and was elevated to Dame Grand Cross in 1927.
	www.bookrags.com /Dame_Nellie_Melba (998 words)

	Melba, Dame Nellie (1861 - 1931) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
		MELBA, Dame NELLIE (1861-1931), prima donna, was born Helen Porter Mitchell on 19 May 1861 at Richmond, Melbourne, eldest surviving of ten children of David Mitchell, building contractor, and his wife Isabella Ann, née Dow.
		Melba showed herself to be adept in elocution, accomplished at painting and in acquiring the social graces; in mathematics and English she was undistinguished.
		Melba was appointed D.B.E. in 1918, and G.B.E. in 1927.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A100464b.htm (3554 words)

	Dame Nellie Melba
		It was seeing a picture of Dame Nellie as I knew her that recalled memories of this colourful and commanding personality that I knew so well.
		Quite early in my acquaintance with Dame Nellie I asked her if she would open the Exhibition that Michael O'Connor and I were jointly to give at the Arts and Crafts.
		The tree Dame Nellie most treasured was a Silver Poplar which she had planted herself.
	www.abc.net.au /walling/info/pages/t765.htm (1017 words)

	(GCT85D) Nothin Leica Dame by the farmers 5
		Nellie Melba was born Helen Porter Mitchell on MAY 19th 1861 inRichmond,Melbourne.In 1887 Melba made her operatic debut inBrussels as Gilda in Verdisa Rigoletto.
		Melba's voice had an even quality over a range of 3 octaves and ave her final emotional concert in 1928,sang at the opening of parliment house in Canberra and made a Dame Cross of the Order of the British Empire.
		Melba died on 23 rd february 1931 and was buried in Lilydale Cemetery in Melbourne.Melba is now immortilised on the green $100 note.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=359ad09b-1f94-4838-8aef-4ce8b4b69798 (747 words)

	Powerhouse Museum \| Dame Nellie Melba's costume
		Legendary soprano Dame Nellie Melba was born Helen Porter Mitchell in Melbourne in 1861.
		Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931) was a legendary soprano.
		When Melba made her Covent Garden farewell in 1926, the concert programme summed up her achievemnts as 'years of almost monotonous brilliance.' Melba made her first appearance as Marguerite in 'Faust' at Covent Garden in 1899 and sang the part until her farewell season.
	www.phm.gov.au /opac/98-26-2.asp (703 words)

	Orange - WireFree
		Inside, a grand piano was close by the transmitter and the carpet where Dame Nellie Melba stood was rolled up lest the sound of her voice should be interfered with.
		Dame Nellie Melba was so fascinated by her experience and what she had previously seen of the machinery - glass valves that magnified her voice 100 times before it escaped to space and great electrical coils that she at once volunteered to sing more than her set programme.
		Dame Nellie Melba was clearly audible at Holland's News Bureau Wireless station at the Hague.
	www.codesign.it /codework/orange/radio.html (669 words)

	NELLIE MELBA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931) was the greatest prima donna of her time, dominating the operatic scene for four decades.
		Charles Armstrong was still Melba's husband and he threatened a messy divorce that would publicize details of her liason with the Duke The matter was quietly settled and they were divorced in 1900.
		Melba's only platonic male friend was flautist John Lemmone who also was her manager; he can be heard on some of her recordings..
	classicalcdreview.com /melba.htm (834 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dame Nellie Melba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dame Nelly Melba in role of Rosina from the Barber of Seville
		In 1920 she appeared on a pioneering radio broadcast from Guglielmo Marconi's factory in Chelmsford, England.
		The reason for her illness was long kept secret, but was in fact due to an infection acquired during plastic surgery, a "facelift".
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dame-Nellie-Melba (468 words)

	Treasures : Item : Dame Nellie Melba
		Married disastrously, with one child, George, Melba claimed in a letter to Cecchi, that she was ‘as poor as it is possible for any one to be’ and needed to earn some money.
		Making her professional operatic debut in Brussels in October 1886, Melba became the supreme diva at London’s Covent Garden from 1889–1926, and was one of the first international stars captured on the new recording and broadcasting technologies of the day.
		Melba was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her fundraising activities during the World War 1.
	nationaltreasures.nla.gov.au /site/Treasures/item/nla.pic-an23323582 (210 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Nellie Melba
		Melba was a free spirit; motherhood and social conventions did not suit her, although later in life she was close to her son and grandson.
		Her name is associated with two foods, a dessert (the Pêche Melba), and Melba toast, both created by the French chef Auguste Escoffier.
		Nellie Melba - includes her 1906 recording of the Aubade from the opera by Edouard Lalo 'Le Roi d'Ys' (1888)
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Nellie_Melba (1006 words)

	RBA: Dame Nellie Melba Biographical Summary
		In her lifetime, Dame Nellie Melba achieved international recognition as a soprano and enjoyed an unrivalled 'super-star' status within Australia.
		Melba's triumphant home-coming in 1902 involved a concert tour of all Australian States and New Zealand.
		Melba's voice was remarkable for its even quality over a range of nearly three octaves, and for its pure silvery timbre.
	www.rba.gov.au /CurrencyNotes/NotesInCirculation/bio_dame_nellie_melba.html (639 words)

	The Bush Inn: Dame Nellie Melba Visits
		Melba stayed at the hotel in 1924 during her last farewell visit to Tasmania when she gave a concert at the City Hall, Hobart.
		When Melba visited Tasmania she wanted somewhere to stay in quietness, and those who organised the concert decided that the Bush Inn at New Norfolk was the best place for her.
		Still apparently anxious to talk about the fruit and flowers and the history of the hotel, I was able to tell Melba the story of William Vincent Wallace and his composition of the theme song “Scenes That Are Brightest” from the opera “Maritana” as he sat on the hotel veranda in 1838.
	members.dodo.net.au /~tassietales/11.html (1488 words)

	Biography / Australia / Dame Nellie Melba
		After the death of her mother in 1881, followed by that of her youngest sister, Nellie accompanied her father to Mackay in Queensland, where he purchased a sugar mill.
		In 1887, Melba made her operatic debut in Brussels as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto and went on to sing with great success in London, Paris, Milan, New York and other major cities.
		For her services to the war effort, Melba was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918.
	www.polymernotes.org /biographies/AUS_bio_melba.htm (639 words)

	Dame Nellie Melba
		Dame Nellie Melba was born Helen Porter Mitchell in Richmond, Victoria, in 1861.
		Her many tours amd concerts in Australian towns and cities prompted the phrase "more farewells than Nellie Melba".
		She died in Febraury 1931 of paratyphoid, and was buried in Lilydale.
	www.victoria.org.au /Dame%20Nellie%20Melba.htm (158 words)

	Lateline - 22/09/2003: Ada and Dame Nellie Melba . Australian Broadcasting Corp
		Lateline - 22/09/2003: Ada and Dame Nellie Melba.
		Melba, who was temperamental bordering on the psychotic, had been making unkind remarks bout German musical taste.
		Melba left the company in a huff and saw to it that Ada was never again invited to sing at Covent Garden, La Scala or any concert hall where Melba held sway.
	www.abc.com.au /lateline/content/2003/hc08.htm (1088 words)

	Forging The Nation - Dame Nellie Melba
		In 1909 Melba undertook a sentimental tour of Australia, and was greeted with adulation wherever she went.
		Melba was appointed a Dame of the British Empire in 1918 and elevated to Dame Grand Cross in the order in 1927.
		In 1928 Melba held her last local performance before going back to Europe, but her health had begun to decline.
	www.awm.gov.au /forging/australians/melba.htm (216 words)

	Melba, Dame Nellie [Mitchell, Helen Porter] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Melba’s Lucia in 1893 began an association with the Metropolitan Opera that lasted irregularly until 1910; she also sang for Hammerstein’s Manhattan Opera Company and in Chicago, and organized occasional operatic seasons in Australia.
		After the brilliant French and Italian roles of her early career, Melba had come to concentrate increasingly on the role of Puccini’s Mimì; from 1899 until her retirement it became the most famous of all her parts.
		Her name became commercially valuable, and both peach melba and melba toast were named after her.
	www.operamusic.com /meldamnelmit.html (400 words)

	Dame Nellie Melba Visits
		Melba stayed at the hotel in 1924 during her last farewell visit to Tasmania when she gave a concert at the City Hall, Hobart.
		When Melba visited Tasmania she wanted somewhere to stay in quietness, and those who organised the concert decided that the Bush Inn at New Norfolk was the best place for her.
		Still apparently anxious to talk about the fruit and flowers and the history of the hotel, I was able to tell Melba the story of William Vincent Wallace and his composition of the theme song “Scenes That Are Brightest” from the opera “Maritana” as he sat on the hotel veranda in 1838.
	bushinnhotel.50megs.com /ch11.htm (1529 words)

	Dame Nellie Melba: Her Life and Times
		was raging, and even from thousands of miles away, Nellie could hear the boom of the guns and the screams of the dying; and, to keep up her spirits, and those of her shipmates, she sang even louder, and longer; mostly dirty Ozzie sheep-dipping songs she'd learned at the wombat's knee.
		So Nellie sang for her supper; and all the Princes and Prime Ministers fell at her feet in adoration; and she was made Dame of the British Empire etc.
		Dame Nellie Melba was born into a musical family on May 19, 1861 at "Doonside" in Richmond Victoria.
	www2.eng.cam.ac.uk /~tpl/hammond/melba.html (1059 words)

	Dame Nellie Melba Biography (1861–1931) (professional name of Helen Armstrongnée Mitchell) Online Encyclopedia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dame Nellie Melba Biography (1861–1931) (professional name of Helen Armstrongnée Mitchell)
		She appeared at Covent Garden in 1888, and the purity of her coloratura soprano voice won her worldwide fame.
		‘Peach Melba’ and ‘Melba toast’ were named after her.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/007/Dame-Nellie-Melba.html (147 words)

	Am I too loud?. Robert Hugill muses on Wagnerian sopranos and changing performance tradition
		Listening to Dame Nellie Melba's records we hear a voice which is rather white, but could be described as silvery.
		In all of Melba's studio recordings and in the live recordings of her 1926 Covent Garden farewell (when she was in her mid 60s) she retains the same apparently light silvery tone, notable for its clarity and bell-like purity.
		Melba was born in 1861; Wagner's Ring Cycle was premièred at the Bayreuth Festival in 1876, when Melba was fifteen.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2005/04/tooloud1.htm (481 words)

	Melocotones Melba
		a soprano australiana Nellie Melba (Hellen Porter Mitchell 1861-1931), tras debutar en Sidney con 25 años, se traslada a París para aumentar sus conocimientos, comenzando a ser famosa desde su debut europeo en Bruselas con Rigoletto.
		Dame Nellie Melba: Estupenda página sobre la cantante, desde la Victoria University de Australia.
		Nellie Melba by Michael Fitzgerald: Artículo sobre la diva aparecido en la revista TIME.
	www.terra.es /personal/aiolozil/revista/revzap1/art001.htm (693 words)

	Dame Nellie Melba - Encyclopedia.com
		Melba, Dame Nellie 1861-1931, Australian soprano, whose name originally was Helen Porter Mitchell.
		After study with Mathilde Marchesi in Paris, she made her operatic debut in Brussels in 1887.
		She was made Dame of the British Empire in 1918.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Melba-Da.html (356 words)

	Melba Dame Nellie - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Melba Dame Nellie - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Melba, Dame Nellie, professional name of Helen Porter Mitchell (1859-1931), Australian operatic coloratura soprano, born near Melbourne.
		The history of European-based music in Australia begins with the British settlers of the country, who were influential in initiating public concerts....
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Melba_Dame_Nellie.html (106 words)

	Dame Nellie Melba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When Melba was 20 her mother and youngest sister died.
		Soon after their death Nellie’s father (David Mitchell) took her and her younger sister Annie to Mackay to organise the building of the Marian Mill.
		Nellie had sung in a number of concerts in Mackay and wrote to her singing teacher in Melbourne to send her more songs to increase her repertoire in Mackay.
	www.marianss.eq.edu.au /Otherwebs/Mission2/melba.htm (462 words)

	Dame Nellie Melba (1861 - 1931) - Find A Grave Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After studying music as a child in Australia, she accompanied her father to Paris where, after an auditon, she was chosen to be a student of the famous teacher, Mathilde Marchesi.
		At her teacher's urging she adopted the stage name "Nellie Melba." In 1887, she made her operatic debut performing Verdi's "Rigoletto" in Brussells.
		For her service she was named a "Dame Commnder of the Order of the British Empire." She also established a singing school in Melbourne, offering her servcies free of charge.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3203&pt=Dame%20Nellie%20Melba (187 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)