Review

This new biography portrays Dame Nellie Melba as a complex diva in need of real love

By Michael McKernan
October 30 2021 - 12:00am
Legendary Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba. Picture: Getty Images
Legendary Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba. Picture: Getty Images

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, a bit too personal.

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