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OM72-50 Dame Nellie Melba Programme
"Melba Grand Opera Season, La Traviata", inscribed "Nellie, Nov 1st 1911, Wednesday".
Nellie Melba
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Farewell of Dame Nellie Melba 1926
Photocopied programme of concert at Royal Albert Hall, London, 25 June, 1926. Also photocopied newspaper clipping about bust of Dame Nellie Melba in the Opera House, Covent Garden (undated, 'Courier Mail'?)
Papers of Dame Nellie Melba
MS 9331 comprises the following items: Thirty undated letters written by Nellie Melba to her friend Lady Susan Fitzclarence, ca. 1908-1917, from Australia, New Zealand, London, Paris and New York; several photos, including two large autographed photos of Melba; three menus, all dated 1917, autographed by Melba and her fellow diners, including Charlie Chaplin; programmes from several of Melba's concerts, including the Grand Melba Concert at Royal Albert Hall on 7 May 1910 and her farewell concert tour in 1926; a small number of press clippings relating to Melba; a typescript account of a meeting with Melba, by Ailwyn Best, entitled "How I sang with Melba"; and, "Panoramic Sydney", a booklet of panoramic photographs of Sydney published in the early 20th century (2 folders, 1 security binder, 1 fol. box).
Biographical File of Information on Dame Nellie Melba
Biographical file of information on Dame Nellie Melba comprising: "Dame Nellie Melba. A centennial review" by Warren Perry (published in Victorian Historical Maazine, vol. 31, no. 4, May 1961); "A Dame Nellie Melba centenary oration" by Dr. Colin Macdonald (published in Victorian Historical Magazine, vol. 31, no. 3, February 1961); "Portrait of a Prima Donna", radio broadcast for the centenary of Melba's birth on 19 May 1961 by John Thompson; press cuttings; one photograph; and references to other newspaper articles on Melba.
Nellie
'In this highly readable biography of Nellie Melba...Robert Wainwright tells the story of the girl with the incredible voice who, by sheer force of her personality and power of her decibels, took the operatic world by storm and managed to escape from her violent husband' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, DAILY MAIL Nellie Melba is remembered as a squarish, late middle-aged woman dressed in furs and large hats, an imperious Dame whose voice ruled the world for three decades and inspired a peach and raspberry dessert. But to succeed, she had to battle social expectations and misogyny that would have preferred she stay a housewife in outback Queensland rather than parade herself on stage. She endured the ...
Papers of Dame Nellie Melba
Papers include a collection of letters from Melba to her sister 'Tib" (Mrs T. A. Paterson), and her mother. Includes single letters to Tib from Melba's mother and sister Clara, and other letters to Dame Nellie. There are four signed and inscribed portrait photographs, three other portrait photographs, and two postcards of Melba. Also includes an embroidered silk evening bag with the name "Nellie" picked out in spangles, and three commemorative programmes, printed on cloth (Royal Opera, Covent Garden, 23 June 1897; Royal Opera, Covent Garden, 11 June 1907; and Town Hall, Melbourne, 27 September 1902).
