DEATH OF MADAME NORDICA

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2147, 13 May 1914, Page 2

DEATH OF MADAME NORDICA

A FA-HQUS PRIMA DONNA. Bf Tolefraiili-Pres; A.sßociation--Oopvrij;hit .. , „ „ BaUvte, May 1L Atariame Nordica, the is (load. ..Madame Lillian Nordtea, whose uWli is recorded above, will bo fresh in tUo nimds of the local public, as she. appeared hero in a, series ot' concerts ando-j- the maiugerncnt oi ! Mr, Frodetick Shipma-n only 4 few months ago, in comwariv with Mossi-a. Paul Dufault [tonort, l'ranldiu Hotding (violinist), and liomavno Sim--wens, acqßnipttnist. After leaving ttew Zealand tho t"om|j«iiy left for Melbourne, wlie.ro concerts were given prior to a lour through the East. She left Brisbane for Batavia (Java) on Deeonrk-r 20 by th-o 6teamor Tnsnian, which stea-ni«- 'went ashore at Bw-mble Cov, an islet in tlu» Gnlf of I'a.M.a. Tho passeegers rvero taken ft* Thursday Island, ami ante, quently on to Batevia, where Madame Nordiea, s-uffflrinsj.froto a breakdown ooBiisionwl by shock,' wag placed in the kpsf'ital. Madama- No.r4ica was born at jarraington, .Maine, U.S.A., and -developing a powerful soprano '„vjiißft,..w»a'' troMtU'&r operatic at first'%" Mr. -Jo!i.«' O'JJeii, of the Boston Co-nservftt-sire, and iat-e.r at Milan. b.j' Signot- Giovanni, Siio made hof first aptfeaSflito at Brescia, Italy, in."La Tiaviata"*in 1879, ami also sawed a big succoss as- Margnetit-o in j Gounod's "Faust." Within a few years 1 after her 'debut she had won a nlaeo among the foremost operatic sopranos of ■ the- day, -and her ajppearaaoe at Co'fcont Gfarden, I*ndoa, in 1887 was a. teritablo triumph. In America she Was idolised 'as the greatest singer that country had ever ■produced,' and. up to tlie iinro. alto left for Australia she retained : hcr hold upon tie Amerisan pnWio. 'f houg-h past her vocal prim.fi when she ■ visited the [ colonies, slie was still a remarkable artist, richly endowed with a dramatic tem/peftwMffit and a queen-like - nppeftftuice vfhieh was. admirably suited to tlio lieroic soprano toles in tlio Wagnerian operas in which- she excelled. Oidifo most great sopranos, she remained : entirely nnapoilt by success, and w-ss -ostieemed and loved by all who knew her. 3J?iiian Nordica was wa-rried three times. Her. first lius- '. band was Mr, Gower, hw secowl Hett Dome, and ii-er third Mr. Washington ' Younp, to whoin slie was married less than five years ago. N