Writer Ann Blainey has won the National Biography Award for I am Melba, the life story of legendary Australian opera diva Dame Nellie Melba. The award, worth $20,000, is Australia's richest prize for ...

Her relationship with the duke was already the stuff of newspaper gossip columns when she arrived for performances on the French Riviera in early 1892. Melba had booked rooms at the Hotel Westminster ...

How scary, sweary soprano Nellie Melba ‘put Australia on the map’ Venal and ruthless, Melba was hard to like. But Robert Wainwright's gossipy biography 'Nellie' does her no favours by ignoring her ...

This is not the biography Dame Nellie Melba would have wanted you to read. Heavy on her personal life and on her phenomenal success as a diva in Europe, America, Australia and Britain, it is, perhaps, ...

Taking Ann Blainey’s biography of Nellie Melba as a guide, Luebbers and writer Nicholas Christo go backstage to focus on the diva’s private life: the relationship with her gruff father, David; ...

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