Nellie Melba

Title: Nellie Melba
Author: Davis, Richard
Price: $49.95

Dame Nellie Melba is, arguably, the most famous of all Australian women
and her portrait graces Australia’s highest denomination banknote. Blessed
with an exceptionally fine voice, Melba forged a spectacular career for herself
in the rarified world of grand opera and was acknowledged as a ‘Queen of
Song’. Triumph after triumph crowned her forty-four-year-long career and
her admirers included numerous famous composers and the monarchs
of many countries. Melba also provided a role model for other Australians
who followed in her footsteps onto the stages of the world’s great opera
houses. Melba’s private life was almost as colourful as the plots of the
operas in which she sang. A turbulent marriage that ended in acrimonious
divorce, custody battles, a doomed love affair with a member of the French
royal family, health problems and a press campaign of criticism about her
character taxed Melba’s stamina and her courage.

ISBN: 9781923042131
Publishing status: AU Dropshipping