Funeral of Dame Nellie Melba (1931 Newsreel Footage)

A Newsreel footage fragment from a British Fox Movietone Newsreel, released on April 14th, 1931. It shows the scene of Funeral of the great soprano Dame Nellie Melba.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Dame
• Nellie
• Melba
• 1931
• Newsreel
• Funeral
• Movietone
• Footage

[merrihew]

This was in Australia?

[transformingArt]

In Melbourne, as the title card says.

[UTubeIsTrackingYou]

Melba is toast.

[gmmix]

Years ago, during research on Australian coloratura Stella Power, I was put in touch with an elderly gentleman who knew Melba. He alleged that her death was the result of an infection that developed after a face-lifting procedure that at that time was risky.  Supposedly, this was never reported in the papers and was known only by a close inner circle. I've wondered over the years whether or not this was true.

[ceredigio]

Melba passed away on 23 February 1931 in a Sydney hospital of blood poisoning which probably developed as the result of a fever she contracted on a trip to Egypt late the previous year. Her funeral took place three days later at the Scots' Presbyterian Church in Melbourne, which her father had built and where as a teenager she had sung in the choir. She was interred at the cemetery in the Melbourne suburb of Lilydale.

[jozefsterkens2]

Great, I had not see it before.

[rupepill]

On Melba's tomb there is inscribed a touching quotation from Mimi's Farewell in La Boheme:

"Addio senza rancor".

[wattever333]

"dust to dust... cough cough!" LOL

[penfloyd]

Dame Nellie Melba is buried at Lilydale in Melbournes outer east.........