Melodies and Memories is the remarkable autobiography of Dame Nellie Melba, the most famous Australian of all time who was also the most famous and sought-after soprano the world has ever known.
No other account of her life could exert the same fascination as her own, first published in a New York magazine in 1925 and now republished after lying forgotten for many years.
Handsome, shrewd, powerful, a diva whose best-known roles established her firmly in the hearts of her public, she writes entertainingly of her early life, her training in Paris, the headiness of her first successes, the famous people she met and sang with and the great opera houses where she reigned supreme.