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Nellie - The Life and Loves of a Diva (Paperback, Main)
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Nellie - The Life and Loves of a Diva (Paperback, Main)
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'In this highly readable biography of Nellie Melba...Robert
Wainwright tells the story of the girl with the incredible voice
who, by sheer force of her personality and power of her decibels,
took the operatic world by storm and managed to escape from her
violent husband' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, DAILY MAIL Nellie Melba is
remembered as a squarish, late middle-aged woman dressed in furs
and large hats, an imperious Dame whose voice ruled the world for
three decades and inspired a peach and raspberry dessert. But to
succeed, she had to battle social expectations and misogyny that
would have preferred she stay a housewife in outback Queensland
rather than parade herself on stage. She endured the violence of a
bad marriage, was denied by scandal a true love with the would-be
King of France, and suffered for more than a decade the loss of her
only son - stolen by his angry, vengeful father. Despite these
obstacles, she built and maintained a career as an opera singer and
businesswoman on three continents which made her one of the first
international superstars. Award-winning biographer Robert
Wainwright presents a very different portrait of this great diva,
one that celebrates both her musical contributions and her rich and
colourful personal life.
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