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	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.
		Her name is associated with two foods, a dessert (the Peach Melba[?]), and melba toast.
		Some recordings of her voice were made in the early 20th century, and have been re-released on CD for contemporary audiences.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ne/Nellie_Melba.html (315 words)

	Nellie Melba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dame Nellie Melba as Rosina in The Barber of Seville
		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.
		Melba also "discovered" a lyric soprano named Stella Power whom she thought sounded a lot like herself; Power was dubbed "the little Melba," but Power lacked Melba's ambition, soon married and had a child, and retired.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nellie_Melba (998 words)

	Forging The Nation - Dame Nellie Melba
		Melba won acclaim at Covent Garden, London, and the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and subsequently in most of the leading opera houses of the world until her retirement.
		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.
	www.awm.gov.au /forging/australians/melba.htm (216 words)

	Biography / Australia / Dame Nellie Melba
		Nellie Melba was born Helen Porter Mitchell on 19 May 1861 at Richmond, Melbourne.
		Melba's voice was remarkable for its even quality over a range of nearly three octaves, and for its pure silvery timbre.
		Melba died in Sydney on 23 February 1931 and was buried at the Lilydale Cemetery in Victoria.
	www.polymernotes.org /biographies/AUS_bio_melba.htm (639 words)

	Nellie Melba. The Paris and London recordings 1908-1913 [JW]: Classical CD Reviews- Apr 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nellie Melba (soprano) with the New Symphony Orchestra conducted by Landon Ronald and pinao accompaniments by Landon Ronald, Gabriel Lapierre; organ accompaniment by Stanley Roper, violin by Jan Kubelik.
		Bishop’s Bid me discourse was a Piatti favourite but though Melba arouses admiration for the duration of some held notes this is all rather too staid and she certainly engages in some whimsically Anglophone rolling of the "r" in Landon Ronald’s wispy little Sounds of Earth, not one of his more imperishable masterpieces.
		The Mozart with Jan Kubelik was recorded at a low level and here I’m afraid Melba and the Bohemian violinist prove a sympathetically neutral pairing, her lack of emotive depth mirrored by his tonal deficiencies.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2003/Apr03/NellieMelba4.htm (647 words)

	NELLIE MELBA
		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)

	Nellie Melba. The 1904 London Recordings [JW]: Classical CD Reviews- Sept 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Melba procrastinated for some time before agreeing to a series of test recordings in March 1904, to be made in the privacy of her London drawing room in Great Cumberland Place.
		Melba had come to prominence in the late 1880s having only recently embarked on a course of serious and systematic study, famously at the Ecole Marchesi, and when these recordings were made she was 43.
		Melba is uneven and it could hardly be otherwise.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2002/Sept02/Nellie_Melba.htm (491 words)

	Melba toast. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		Melba toast is said to be derived from the crisp toast that was part of Dame Melba's diet during the year 1897, a year in which she was very ill. The hotel proprietor César Ritz supposedly named it in a conversation with Escoffier.
		Pêche Melba was said to have been created by Escoffier for an 1892 party honoring the singer at the Savoy Hotel in London, although neither Escoffier nor Melba agreed with this version of events.
		Peach Melba is first recorded in English in 1905 (in the form Pêches à la Melba) and Melba toast in 1925.
	www.bartleby.com /61/52/M0205200.html (253 words)

	Nimbus Records, Prima Voce, NI 7890, Nellie Melba - Booklet Note
		Melba herself would not have been best pleased: anything with 'prima' in it meant her.
		Melba was their antithesis; with none of that fierce quick-spun vibrato which they found so exciting, Melba's purity would have seemed sexless, frigid.
		Herman (sometimes 'Henri') Bemberg was a favourite of Melba's both as a musician and a companion, and in all probability she would not have been at all unhappy to find that he is the composer heard most often in this selection (14, 15, 20, 21).
	www.wyastone.co.uk /nrl/pvoce/7890c.html (1514 words)

	Melba Operas ~ aMUSIClassical Directory
		However, Melba went to Paris, where she met Mme Marchesi, the Directrice of the Ecole Marchesi and one of the foremost singing teachers of the day.
		If Nellie Melba ever wore a kindly smile, at the Albert Street Conservatorium in Melbourne, where she was a teacher, no one there seems to have remembered it.
		Melba hated every record she made until she heard an HMV electrical transcription of her Covent Garden farewell performance, in 1926.
	www.geocities.com /musiclassical/melba.html (278 words)

	Dame Nellie Melba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dame Nellie Melba was a famous Australian singer.
		Melba's first recordings were released in London under her special lilac label.
		Melba as Rosina in the 'Barber of Seville'.
	teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au /cyberfair2001/Damenelliemelba.htm (76 words)

	Dame Nellie Melba
		Melba Park in Lilydale with Melba Museum in the background.
		A bust of Nellie Melba can be seen on the facade of Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne.
		A wide range entertainment and music from classical (with of course reference to Dame Nellie Melba) to jazz performed in a variety of atmospheric venues.
	www.whitehat.com.au /Australia/People/Melba.asp (203 words)

	DAME NELLIE MELBA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A year's study in Paris with the famous and formidable Mathilde Marchesi transformed her from a gifted beginner into a brilliant vocalist, soon to be regarded as the most accomplished and most famous soprano of her time.
		Melba made her debut on 13 October 1887 at the Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels, as Gilda, and during that season went on to sing Violetta, Lucia di Lammermoor, Lakme and Ophelia.
		During the earlier part of her career, Melba concentrated in the more brilliant French and Italian roles mentioned above, but from 1899 until her retirement Mimi became the most famous of all her parts.
	w2.vu.edu.au /melba/damenelliemelba.htm (661 words)

	Opera Shop: Nellie Melba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nellie Melba was probably the greatest name among the legendary singers of her time.
		It was not until then that Melba saw and heard her first opera.
		Melba was a great singer, but was not known as an effective actress.
	bassocantante.com /opera/melba.html (206 words)

	Melba, Nellie - Australian Women Biographical entry
		Dame Nellie Melba (née Helen Porter Mitchell) was an internationally renowned opera singer, celebrated for her magnificent coloratura (soprano) voice.
		Melba was appointed to The Order of the British Empire, Dame Grand Cross (Civil) on 3 June 1927 for services to Australia.
		Melba, Nellie, Dame; Beverley Nichols, 'Melodies and memories; introduction and notes by John Cargher', Nelson, West Melbourne, Vic., 1980, p.
	www.womenaustralia.info /biogs/IMP0003b.htm (608 words)

	Speaking of Nellie Melba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dame Nellie Melba was a world famous opera star from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.
		There have been many things written and said about Dame Nellie Melba, some of them verifiable fact, some of them heresay perhaps partially grounded in truth, but all of them interesting.
		Nellie Melba was born as Helen Porter Mitchell on May 19, 1861.
	students.washington.edu /mkt5/finalproject/speakingofmelba.html (151 words)

	Historical Feature - Dame Nellie Melba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dame Nellie Melba was, during her lifetime, almost larger than life.
		She left Australia to study opera at the age of 25, returning triumphantly in 1902 to tour, and then again in 1909, when she travelled over 10,000 miles through many smaller centres in Australia and New Zealand.
		Nellie's tough will and extraordinary self-confidence made her an ambivalent hero of national identity.
	www.australianstamp.com /Coin-web/feature/history/melba.htm (197 words)

	WEB-ARTS - Nellie Melba
		Her Australian debut had been at the Theatre Royal in Sydney on 4 july 1885, her debut in Brussels in Rigoletto in 1887, and her London debut at Covent Garden in 1888.
		MELBA - A FAMILY MEMOIR by Pamela Vestey is marked out-of-print but always check in case there is a used copy for sale.
		Dame Nellie Melba Research Centre at the Museum of Lilydale in Victoria
	www.web-arts.com.au /MELBA.html (504 words)

	Classical Net Review - EMI Historical Series - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nellie Melba
		It is shocking to be reminded that some of the selections on the Melba disc are more than a hundred years old.
		Stylistically, some of what she did was dead wrong, and my choir director would have slapped her regal wrists for the way in which she habitually scooped up to notes, or from one note to another.
		Melba's voice, right or wrong, can grab you by the ears and compel you to listen.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/e/emi85826a.html (553 words)

	Museum of Lillydale - Dame Nellie Melba
		Born Helen Porter Mitchell (1861-1931), Melba was one of the most acclaimed international opera singers of all time.
		She established her home at Coombe Cottage in Coldstream, performed many concerts in the local area, as well as overseas, and was buried in Lilydale in 1931.
		The Melba exhibition is in the ground floor gallery of the Museum.
	www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au /museum/melba.htm (139 words)

	Nellie Melba - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Nelly Melba caracterizada como Rosina del Barbero de Sevilla
		Nelly Melba (Melbourne, 19 de mayo de 1861 - Sidney, 23 de febrero de 1931) fue una cantante de ópera australiana cuyo nombre real fue Helen Porter Mitchell.
		El chef francés Auguste Escoffier, que fue uno de sus más rendidos admiradores, creó para ella numerosos platos y postres como el melocotón Melba; cuando la diva comenzó a tener problemas con su línea, inventó asimismo las tostadas Melba, para ayudar a mantener su dieta.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nellie_Melba (337 words)

	Amazon.com: Nellie Melba: Music: Hermann Bemberg,Sir Henry Rowley Bishop,Harry T. (Henry) Burleigh,Gustave ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Performer: John Lemmone, Dame Nellie Melba, et al.
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		with Giuseppe Mario Sammarco, Dame Nellie Melba, John McCormack
	www.amazon.com /Nellie-Melba-Hermann-Bemberg/dp/B0000037L9 (838 words)

	Tower Records - Dame Nellie Melba - Opera Arias and Songs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Performers: Melba, Nellie (Soprano), Gaubert, Philippe (Flute), Ronald, Landon (Piano), Bemberg, Hermann (Piano), Fransella, Albert (Flute), Squire, William Henry (Cello), Lapierre, Gabriel (Piano), Mummery, Browning (Tenor), Rettore, Aurore (Soprano), Brownlee, John (Baritone), Craxton, Harold (Piano)
		Performer: Melba, Nellie; Ronald, Landon; Squire, William Henry
		Performer: Melba, Nellie; Mummery, Browning; Rettore, Aurore; Brownlee, John
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2973659 (277 words)

	PICT1978 Shawl and Silk Seat Cover belonging to Dame Nellie Melba on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Queen Victoria presented this shawl and silk chair cover to Dame Nellie Melba when Melba was in England on tour and performed for Queen Victoria.
		The above menus seem to correspond with Dame Nellie Melba's tours to England with the 1899 one at Windsor Castle being the most likely when Queen Victoria gave Melba the shawl and silk seat cover.
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	Divas - The Site / The Opera Divas / Dame Nellie Melba
		(for whom "Melba Toast" was named) was once told by Puccini himself, "You don't sing my music.
		You sing Melba-Puccini." Above her dressing room in Covent Garden there was a sign which read: "QUIET!
		When Scheff stormed off-stage in tears, refusing to sing the rest of the opera, Melba entertained the audience with a performance of Lucia's mad scene.
	www.divasthesite.com /Opera_Divas/Nellie_Melba.htm (132 words)

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