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From the Australian Magazine's debut in 1821, Australia's magazine industry developed rapidly in the late nineteenth century through popular titles such as the Bulletin and Melbourne Punch. Alongside these more mainstream publications, a series of small,...
Don McMurdo, Fireworks over the Sydney Opera House, Japan Week, 1988, slide. William Lyster set up his own opera company in 1861, giving audiences their first full scale productions of European opera. Opera Australia was created through the merger of Th...
Indigenous music in Australia uses the environment itself to generate unique sounds and rhythms. Australian musicians performing across a range of genres, or styles, have achieved international recognition with a unique Australian approach. The opera sin...
Discovered by Italian tenor Pietro Cecchi, critics said soprano Helen Porter Mitchell (later Dame Nellie Melba) had a ravishing voice, of flawless purity and aflame with brilliance. Cecchi arranged Melba,Äôs debut in Australia. In 1924 and 1928, Melba ma...
Discovered by Italian tenor Pietro Cecchi, critics said soprano Helen Porter Mitchell (later Dame Nellie Melba) had a ravishing voice, of flawless purity and aflame with brilliance. Cecchi arranged Melba,Äôs debut in Australia. In 1924 and 1928, Melba ma...
Discovered by Italian tenor Pietro Cecchi, critics said soprano Helen Porter Mitchell (later Dame Nellie Melba) had a ravishing voice, of flawless purity and aflame with brilliance. Cecchi arranged Melba,Äôs debut in Australia. In 1924 and 1928, Melba ma...
Discovered by Italian tenor Pietro Cecchi, critics said soprano Helen Porter Mitchell (later Dame Nellie Melba) had a ravishing voice, of flawless purity and aflame with brilliance. Cecchi arranged Melba,Äôs debut in Australia. In 1924 and 1928, Melba ma...
Discovered by Italian tenor Pietro Cecchi, critics said soprano Helen Porter Mitchell (later Dame Nellie Melba) had a ravishing voice, of flawless purity and aflame with brilliance. Cecchi arranged Melba,Äôs debut in Australia. In 1924 and 1928, Melba ma...
Discovered by Italian tenor Pietro Cecchi, critics said soprano Helen Porter Mitchell (later Dame Nellie Melba) had a ravishing voice, of flawless purity and aflame with brilliance. Cecchi arranged Melba,Äôs debut in Australia. In 1924 and 1928, Melba ma...
Discovered by Italian tenor Pietro Cecchi, critics said soprano Helen Porter Mitchell (later Dame Nellie Melba) had a ravishing voice, of flawless purity and aflame with brilliance. Cecchi arranged Melba,Äôs debut in Australia. In 1924 and 1928, Melba ma...
Discovered by Italian tenor Pietro Cecchi, critics said soprano Helen Porter Mitchell (later Dame Nellie Melba) had a ravishing voice, of flawless purity and aflame with brilliance. Cecchi arranged Melba,Äôs debut in Australia. In 1924 and 1928, Melba ma...
Helen Porter Mitchell adopted the professional name Melba to acknowledge her birthplace, Melbourne. Melba won acclaim at Covent Garden, London, and the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and subsequently in most of the leading opera houses of the world until ...
The National Gallery of Australia proudly presents acclaimed Australian soprano Tiffany Speight performing a selection of arias from Dame Nellie Melba's repertoire at 7pm on Friday 11 June, in a farewell event for the successful exhibition The Edwardians:...
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