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Dame Nellie Melba 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. Famous for her lyric and coloratura roles, she sang regularly at Covent Garden in London from 1888 until 1926 and intermittently with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City from 1893 to 1910; in 1907 she performed at the Manhattan Opera House and also made appearances in Australia and many other parts of the world. She was made Dame of the British Empire in 1918.

Bibliography: See her autobiography, Melodies and Memories (1925).

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Melba, Dame Nellie (1861–1931) Australian soprano, real name Helen Porter Mitchell. Initially a high coloratura soprano, she was famous in the roles of Lucia (Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor) and Gilda (Verdi's Rigoletto) and later for such lyric roles as Mimì (Puccini's La Bohème) and Marguerite (Gounod's Faust).

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