OBITUARY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 293, 14 May 1914, Page 5

OBITUARY

-MADAME NORDICA. By CaMi- -Press Association -Cop*light ISatavia, May 1.. .Mad,ime Nordics, ike singer, i- dead.

Madame Lillian Xordiea visited Xew Zealand last ye.u'. when she was a spieled in 'ut reeitals 'liv Mr Paul Dufault. Sim "it-''i Prisbane for .lava, on lit-r return to America on December '2O lasi in tlie (ilc;>Hi(>r Taiwan. whWli ve*'-! whil Iliais;l-U- Uajr, an islet- :n t lie Kaif of Papua. The vessel eventually went i., Tioir<dav Waihl for repairs. .Madam" Xordiea. who U a famed Ame- ' rii ais operatic soprano. was Imrn at !■ e : iiiiiie'i oil, Maine. in and \v;H trained as a singer at a Hosfeti conservatory by dohn O'Xeill, and la'.ei' at M ; .l:in by San (.itAantii. She rub- hev opera lie debut at JireM-ut, Italy in "l.a Traviala," in lKT'.t, and from thai iinie t"ok 1 "h rank among the prima donna* of tlie world, appearing at all the principal capitals in Kurope anil in America. Madaeie X'U'iliea (ir«l appeared in Loudon in 1887. Iter repertoire embraced forty operas and all the standard oratorios. Pile, was best known in Wagnerian part's. Madame Nordica '.va-' married three tflmes, her first husband 1 Mr (lower, the ,eeond Herr Dome, and the third ill Washington Yomi'j. to whom "lie wo* married on duly 2h. 1909.