New light on Dame Nellie MelbaI AM MELBA: A Biographyby Ann Blainey(Melbourne: Black Inc.)Paperback: 400 pagesRec. price: AUD$27.95Nellie Melba was Australia’s first international superstar. Her long career as an opera singer embraced the old world and the modern, from the era of the great opera composers when it was necessary to go to an opera house to experience a famous singer, to that of recorded music and radio.She sang for Queen Victoria, tasted the high life in Edwardian London, the Empir…
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