1918 AUSTRALIAN TONE TEST Edison Diamond Disc STELLA POWER Little MELBA Semirami

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A series of great EDISON DIAMOND DISC recordings:
MARKED in the recording book as
Australian Tone Test, then Catalog
Rare 1918 Recording of NELLIE Melba's PROTEGEE and self styled successor, Australian  STELLA POWER
On HMV she - humbly - sobriquet'ed herself "THE LITTLE MELBA", here the great Bemberg Song composed for Melba and the superb Rossini Coloratura Aria
On improved 1921 circle label pressing
Rec Numb
80402-R
80402-L
Take
A
C
Title
Nymphes et sylvains (Herman Bemberg / Armand Ocampo)
SEMIRAMIDE (Gioacchino Rossini / Giacomo Rossi), I: Bel raggio lusinghier
Artist
Stella Power (S), (O)
Stella Power (S), (O)
Recorded
1918.02.
1918.02.12/3
Place
NYC
NYC
Comment
Australian Tone Test, then Catalog
Australian Tone Test, then Catalog
Condition:
EXCELLENT MINUS, unworn light rubs, tiny rim bump NAP, plays relatively quiet
A GREAT COPY
POWER, STELLA (1896-1977), soprano, was born on 27 June 1896 at Richmond, Melbourne, and baptized Tertia Stella, fifth of six children of Edward John Power, customs officer, and his wife Annie Elizabeth, nTe O'Brien (d.1904). Stella probably attended the local convent school before becoming one of the first students to train under (Dame) Nellie Melba at the Albert Street Conservatorium, East Melbourne. Her voice earned her the sobriquet, 'the Little Melba', from the diva herself: while guaranteeing a degree of prestige, the term led to unfair comparisons with the older singer. Power's professional appearances began with a recital in Melbourne in 1916. At St Mary's Catholic Church, North Sydney, on 30 July 1917 she married William Francis O'Rourke, a commercial traveller; their son Billy was born in 1920.
Later that year Power sailed for the United States of America where, early in 1918, she performed in concerts with the violinists Eugene Ysaye and Mischa Elman. As Melba's associate-artist she embarked on an extensive tour, during which Thomas A. Edison Inc. recorded her singing. Following recitals in Australia in 1918-19, she made her British dTbut at the Royal Albert Hall on 23 November 1919 in a concert conducted by (Sir) Landon Ronald. She appeared on stage in Britain with the cellists Jean Gerardy and Lauri Kennedy (a fellow Australian), the tenor John McCormack, the pianist Willhelm Backhaus and the violinist Jan Kubelfk, and she also sang before the King and Queen of Norway. Under the conductor (Sir) Adrian Boult, she performed works by (Sir) Arthur Bliss and other composers for recording by His Master's Voice.
In 1923 Power returned to Australia where she gave recitals and sang under contract to Union Theatres Ltd in picture-palaces. Back in the United States in 1926, she began a nine-year period as a featured singer in a series of popular revues staged by the entrepreneur John Murray Anderson, appearing with performers such as Roy Rogers and Mae West. Billy travelled with her. Home again in 1935, Stella lived with her brother Cyril in Melbourne. She travelled interstate as a concert recitalist, and as a radio performer for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. In 1935-36 she spent four months in New Zealand, touring stations operated by that country's broadcasting board. She made guest appearances on commercial radio in Australia, and in 1946 provided the voice of the mature Melba in the serial, 'MelbaùThe Life Story of a Great Australian'. Although she stopped singing professionally in the 1950s, she continued to teach in the 1960s.
Power's operatic performances were rare. In 1924 she had appeared on stage in Carmen, singing the part of Micaela. For A.B.C. broadcasts in the 1930s she sang the title role in Martha (opposite the Italian tenor Dino Borgioli) and the role of Norina in Don Pasquale. Her recordings reveal a fine and well-trained lyric coloratura voice, and provide evidence of the type of teaching she received from Melba and her collaborators. Survived by her son, she died on 16 January 1977 at Cheltenham, Melbourne, and was buried in the local cemetery.
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