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Birth
Dame Nellie Melba was born on the 19/5/1861 -
Started singing
Dame Nellie Melba started singing age six, she got her musical talents from her mother who was a musician. -
Marriage
She married Charles Nesbitt Frederick Armstrong -
Audition
Dame Nellie Melba had her audition with Madame Marchesi and was taken on as a student -
Dubut
She debuted on the 18 may 1886 playing Ophelia in Hamlet. -
Divorce
Nellie divorced her husband because he wasn’t supportive of her career, this is when she changed her name from Helen Armstrong to Hellen Melba after her home town. -
Becoming a dame
Nellie Melba became a dame in 1918 -
Death
Dame Nellie Melba died on February 23 1931