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Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).
* February 23 Dame Nellie Melba, Australian soprano ( b. 1861 )
The first production of the opera actually produced by the Royal Opera House itself premiered on 1 July 1899 with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Zélie de Lussan as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Mario Ancona as Marcello.
The Metropolitan Opera staged the work for the first time on 26 December 1900 with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Annita Occhiolini-Rizzini as Musetta, Albert Saléza as Rodolfo, Giuseppe Campanari as Marcello, and Luigi Mancinelli conducting.
* Monaco: 1 February 1902, Opéra de Monte-Carlo in Monte Carlo with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Enrico Caruso as Rodolfo, Alexis Boyer as Marcello, and Léon Jehin conducting.
In the pattern of foods named after famous singers and dancers, Dame Nellie Melba also has several dishes named after her, well known is Melba toasts and the Peach Melba, but also less well known is the Chicken Melba, recipes of which can be found in Larousse Gastronomique.
A newspaper article from January 1927 claims an American ice-cream was named after Pavlova: " Dame Nellie Melba, of course, has found fame apart from her art in the famous sweet composed of peaches and cream, while Mme.
Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.
By the early years of the twentieth century, the Salle Garnier was to see such great performers as Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso in La Bohème and Rigoletto ( in 1902 ), and Feodor Chaliapin in the premiere of Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte ( 1910 ).
Major artistes who appeared with the society during this time included Paderewski, Hubert Parry, Nellie Melba, and Clara Butt.
At the close of the 19th century, the art of the Heidelberg School began to capture the unique colours of the Australian bush, famed writers Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson presented conflicting views of the harshness and romance of life in Australia, and performing artists like Dame Nellie Melba succeeded internationally in the traditional European arts.
Leading Australian performers in these fields have included the opera Dames Nellie Melba and Joan Sutherland, dancers Edouard Borovansky and Sir Robert Helpmann, and choreographer / dancers such as Graeme Murphy and Meryl Tankard.
Mark Twain, Nellie Melba, Laurence Olivier and Barry Humphries have all performed on this historic stage.
Dame Nellie Melba ( 1861-1931 ).
It is named after Dame Nellie Melba, the stage name of Australian opera singer Helen Porter Mitchell.
03033 ) performed by Dame Nellie Melba with Jan Kubelík on violin.
On 15 June 1920 the factory was the location of the first official publicised sound broadcast in the United Kingdom, featuring Dame Nellie Melba using two radio broadcasting masts.
On 15 June 1920, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited, in Chelmsford, Essex, was licensed to conduct an experimental broadcast from the New Street Works factory, featuring Dame Nellie Melba.
On 12 June 1906, after 50 years on the stage, a star-studded gala performance was held at the Drury Lane Theatre for Terry's benefit and to celebrate her golden jubilee, at which Enrico Caruso sang, W. S. Gilbert directed a performance of Trial by Jury, Eleanora Duse, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Lillie Langtry, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Nellie Melba, and more than twenty members of Terry's family performed in an act of Much Ado about Nothing with her, among other performances.
Notable among them were the brothers Jean and Edouard de Reszke, Lilli Lehmann, Emma Calvé, Lillian Nordica, Nellie Melba, Marcella Sembrich, Milka Ternina, Emma Eames, Sofia Scalchi, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Francesco Tamagno, Francisco Vignas, Jean Lassalle, Mario Ancona, Victor Maurel, Antonio Scotti and Pol Plançon.
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Nellie and 1861
On 24 September 1861, Crown Princess Victoria introduced her brother Albert Edward to Alexandra at Speyer, but it was not until almost a year later on 9 September 1862 ( after his affair with Nellie Clifden and the death of his father ) that Albert Edward proposed to Alexandra at the Royal Castle of Laeken, the home of his great-uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium.
Helen Louise Herron " Nellie " Taft ( June 2, 1861 May 22, 1943 ) was the wife of William Howard Taft and First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913.
* Dame Nellie Melba-Was born in Richmond in 1861.
Sir Charles Santley ( born 1834 ), Gustav Walter ( born 1834 ), Adelina Patti ( born 1843 ), Marianne Brandt ( born 1842 ), Lilli Lehmann ( born 1848 ), Jean Lassalle ( born 1847 ), Victor Maurel ( born 1848 ), Marcella Sembrich ( born 1858 ), Lillian Nordica ( born 1857 ), Emma Calvé ( born 1858 ), Nellie Melba ( born 1861 ), Francesco Tamagno ( born 1850 ), Francesco Marconi ( born 1853 ), Léon Escalais ( born 1859 ), Mattia Battistini ( born 1856 ), Mario Ancona ( born 1860 ), Pol Plançon ( born 1851 ), and Antonio Magini-Coletti and Francesco Navarini ( both born 1855 ).
* Nellie Melba ( 1861 1931 ), Australian opera soprano, married name Helen Armstrong

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* 1975 Nellie Fox, American baseball player ( b. 1927 )
* 1890 Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
* 1864 Nellie Bly, American journalist and writer ( d. 1922 )
* 1889 Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly ( aka Elizabeth Cochrane ) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
* 1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
* 1912 Nellie Lutcher, American pianist, R & B and jazz singer ( d. 2007 )
* July 29 Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
* January 5 Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor ( Wyoming ) in the United States.
* January 4 Nellie Cashman, Irish-born prospector ( b. 1845 )
Nellie married Tribune reporter Robert Wilson Patterson, Jr. ( 1850 1910 ).
Nellie Tayloe Ross ( November 29, 1876 December 19, 1977 ) was an American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and director of the United States Mint from 1933 1953.
Harold Macmillan was born at 52 Cadogan Place in Chelsea, London, to Maurice Crawford Macmillan ( 1853 1936 ), publisher, and Helen ( Nellie ) Artie Tarleton Belles ( 1856 1937 ), artist and socialite, from Spencer, Indiana in the United States.
Nellallitea ' Nella ' Larsen ( born Nellie Walker ( April 13, 1891 March 30, 1964 ), was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance.
* Edwin Way Teale ( 1899 1980 ), American naturalist and author, lived on a farm in rural Hampton with his wife Nellie from 1959 until his death in 1980.
* Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (" Nellie Bly ") ( 1864 1922 ), American pioneer female journalist.
.... Nellie Ruth ' Nell ' Harper ( 137 episodes, 1981 1987 )
Nellie Bly ( May 5, 1864 January 27, 1922 ) was the pen name of American pioneer female journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane.
Cornish was founded in 1914, as the Cornish School, by pianist and voice teacher Nellie Cornish ( 1876 1956 ), who was influenced by the pedagogical ideas of Maria Montessori, as well as Calvin Brainerd Cady's ideas on music pedagogy, and who served as the school's director for its first 25 years.
* Nellie Cornish ( 1914 1939 )
* Nellie Campobello ( 1900 1986 ), Mexican writer, ballet dancer and choreographer
* Preakness Stakes Nellie Morse

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