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Dame Nellie Melba also known as Porter Mitchell was born at Richmond, Melbourbe.
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depressed and devasted by his mum and sister's death she stopped studying
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Dame and Charles was blessed with a son named George
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after George's bith Dame had enough courage to move to melbourne and persue her dream to be a professional singer.
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Dame made her début at a Liedertafel concert at the Melbourne Town Hall. For 6 years Melba had numbers of début around Australia and eventually became famous.
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A man with positon who had been Dame's lover. later Armstrong filed for devorce because of adultery from Dame side. It had been in the papers for a long time
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In 1902, after years spent singing in the great Opera Houses of Europe and acclaimed by both press and the public Dame Nellie Melba made a triumphant homecoming tour, with concerts throughout the country.
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Melba created the title role in Saint-Saëns' opera, Helene, at Monte Carlo; and in 1906-07, since she was displeased with the Metropolitan, she deserted it for the recently founded, rival Manhattan Opera House, which she revived financially with a triumphant season.
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When World War I broke out, Melba had recently arrived at Coombe Cottage. To go back to Europe was difficult, but she did make three wartime concert tours of North America where she excited pro-allied sentiment, and also applied herself to raising funds for war charities at home, most notably by her spirited auctioneering of flags at the conclusion of her concerts.
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She had announced her Australian farewell to grand opera
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Partly in the hope of getting better medical care, she later went to Sydney where, in St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, she died of septicaemia, which had developed from facial surgery in Europe some weeks before she came back.
