Dame Nellie Melba had been a tenant of this stately mansion for five months in 1902.
In Paris he became a friend of compatriot Nellie Melba, the famous soprano; Patterson's brother, Tom, was married to Melba's sister, Belle.
His youngest son, Charles Nesbitt Frederick Armstrong (1858–1948), born when his father was 71 or 72, went to Queensland, Australia, and married Helen Porter Mitchell (the opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba) in 1882.
She then studied piano and eventually opera at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music, which the latter was possible due to a scholarship from Dame Nellie Melba.
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.
She was also one of only two Australian women to receive two damehoods (the other being Dame Nellie Melba).
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.
She was a noted patron of the arts, friend among many other artists to Oscar Wilde and Nellie Melba.
From 1905 through 1912 Astruc brought a long list of musical giants to Paris under the banner "Great Season of Paris", including an Italian season with Enrico Caruso and Australian soprano Nellie Melba in 1905, the creation of Salome under the baton of Richard Strauss in 1907, the Ballets Russes of Diaghilev in 1909, the Metropolitan Opera conducted by Arturo Toscanini in 1910, and the Le martyre de Saint Sébastien of Debussy by Gabriele D'Annunzio in 1911.
She was chosen by Dame Nellie Melba to take part in her farewell tour of Australia in 1928.
Nellie Melba (1861–1931), Australian opera soprano, married name Helen Armstrong
They often featured private symphonic performances and included many international composers and performers, including Ignacy Paderewski, Serge Koussevitsky and Dame Nellie Melba.
In 1924, fresh from triumphs in Milan and Paris, but before her debut in London or New York, she was engaged by the diva Dame Nellie Melba to be one of the star singers of an Italian opera company that Melba was organising to make a tour of Australia.
Nellie Melba | Melba Moore | Nellie the Elephant | Nellie McClung | Nellie Connally | Nellie Bly | Melba | Peach Melba | Nellie Pou | Nellie Dean | Nellie Cashman | Nellie Y. McKay | Nellie Wong | Nellie Verrill Mighels Davis | Nellie Tayloe Ross | Nellie Shabalala | Nellie Kim | Nellie Clifden | Melba Rae | Melba Montgomery | Little Nellie Kelly | A Little Bit More (Melba Moore song) |
She toured Australia with Dame Nellie Melba, and was associated on stage with other singers such as Luisa Tetrazzini, Amelita Galli-Curci and John McCormack, and violinists such as Mischa Elman, Eugène Ysaÿe and others.
She was a close friend of Oscar Wilde, who dedicated his play A Woman of No Importance to her; other celebrated friends included Nellie Melba, whose success in London was largely due to Lady Ripon's support, Nijinsky and Diaghilev.
The $100 Australian banknote (in the background of the Dame Nellie Melba portrait) features an image of the interior of the theatre.
Many of the greatest opera stars of the era appeared with the company during its four year history; among the most notable were Nellie Melba, Lillian Nordica, Luisa Tetrazzini, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Giovanni Zenatello, Lina Cavalieri, Mary Garden, John McCormack, Lalla Miranda, Alessandro Bonci, Charles Dalmorès, Giovanni Polese, Maurice Renard, Alice Zeppilli, and Nicola Zerola.
Of these, Jackson House was named in celebration of Marjorie Jackson; Elizabeth Kenny is the namesake of Kenny House; Melba House is named after Nellie Melba and Dorothea Mackellar is the inspiration for Mackellar House.
By the early years of the twentieth century, the Salle Garnier was to see such great performers as Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso in La bohème and Rigoletto (in 1902), and Feodor Chaliapin in the premiere of Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte (1910).
The dish was invented in 1892 or 1893 by the French chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London, to honour the Australian soprano, Nellie Melba.
She appeared in musical comedy on the London stage (even appearing with Noël Coward), and performed for Dame Nellie Melba in 1927 while travelling to Australia through the Suez Canal.