Nellie Melba
Opera Singer
Australian opera singer who was internationally recognized for her soprano voice and later became a singing teacher at the Melbourne Conservatorium.
She studied music and played in concerts around Melbourne as a teenager.
Although many people thought her voice was well-suited for Mozart, she never sang any of his work.
She had a son with her divorced husband Charles Nesbitt Frederick.
In 1907, she sang for Oscar Hammerstein I at his house in New York.