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unusual facts about Dame Nellie Melba



Australian one hundred-dollar note

The polymer issue was designed by Bruce Stewart, and features portraits of soprano Dame Nellie Melba and engineer and First World War general Sir John Monash.

Frank Saldo

Saldo wrote the lyrics for a song for Dame Nellie Melba before moving to the United States for a period where he had a successful career as a lyricist.

Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney

The $100 Australian banknote (in the background of the Dame Nellie Melba portrait) features an image of the interior of the theatre.

Percy Kahn

Kahn accompanied some of the great musicians of the day, including violinists Mischa Elman and Fritz Kreisler; sopranos Dame Nellie Melba, Luisa Tetrazzini, Florence Austral and Oda Slobodskaya, tenors Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Richard Tauber, Joseph Hislop and Beniamino Gigli; and baritones Titta Ruffo and John Brownlee.


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