Dame Nellie Melba

Credit for Melba Toast goes to Helen Porter Mitchell, an Australian opera singer who went by the name Dame Nellie Melba.

Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

Credit for Melba Toast goes to Helen Porter Mitchell, an Australian opera singer who went by the name Dame Nellie Melba.

Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

But my friend Margie and I had tickets to a concert at The Church of the Transfiguration, famously known as "The Little Church Around the Corner", presenting an emerging star, a lyric coloratura soprano, Siobhan Stagg from Australia, in a tribute to renowned opera royalty, Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland.

Irene Tanner: Singin' in the Rain -- The Blog Irene Tanner 2012

But my friend Margie and I had tickets to a concert at The Church of the Transfiguration, famously known as "The Little Church Around the Corner", presenting an emerging star, a lyric coloratura soprano, Siobhan Stagg from Australia, in a tribute to renowned opera royalty, Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland.

Irene Tanner: Singin' in the Rain -- The Blog Irene Tanner 2012

But my friend Margie and I had tickets to a concert at The Church of the Transfiguration, famously known as "The Little Church Around the Corner", presenting an emerging star, a lyric coloratura soprano, Siobhan Stagg from Australia, in a tribute to renowned opera royalty, Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland.

Irene Tanner: Singin' in the Rain -- The Blog Irene Tanner 2012

Caramelised peaches with raspberry sauceThis is my take on Peach Melba, the dish created by Escoffier in 1893 in honour of Dame Nellie Melba.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's peach recipes 2010

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, principle organiser of the 9/11 outrage, sang like Dame Nellie Melba.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

Directors such as Peter Weir, Philip Noyes, and Russell Mulcahy, the conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, and singers and musicians such as Olivia Newton-John, The Wiggles, AC / DC, Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Nellie Melba, and Kylie Minogue are well known.

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It's au revoir to the peach melba me thinks. (did you know the melba part in peach melba is raspberry sauce - and it's named after Australian soprano, Dame Nellie Melba.

BBC - Ouch 2010

It's au revoir to the peach melba me thinks. (did you know the melba part in peach melba is raspberry sauce - and it's named after Australian soprano, Dame Nellie Melba.

BBC - Ouch 2010