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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 19 May 1861
- Died
- 23 February 1931, 1931
- Place of death
- Sydney
- Sex or gender
- female
- Father
- David Mitchell
- Mother
- Isabella Ann Dow
- Genre
- opera
- Occupation
- opera singer, autobiographer, singer, actor, musician
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Awards
- Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, Victorian Honour Roll of Women, King's Medal of Merit in Gold
- birth name
- Helen Porter Mitchell
- cause of death
- sepsis
- depicted by
- Madame Melba
- described by source
- Riemann's Music Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica, The Dictionary of Australasian Biography, 1892, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Berühmte Sängerinnen der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, A historical dictionary of British women, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7
- educated at
- Presbyterian Ladies' College, Westonbirt School
- has works in the collection
- Tate
- honorific prefix
- Dame
- instrument
- voice
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Nellie Melba
- place of burial
- Lilydale Lawn Cemetery
- pseudonym
- Nellie Melba
- student of
- Mathilde Marchesi
- topic's main category
- Category:Nellie Melba
- voice type
- light soprano
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