Women in Music Posters “Me...”
for social studies and music education classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational decor.

Dame Nellie Melba
née Helen Porter Mitchell
b. 5-19-1861; Australia
d. 2-23-1931

Opera singer Nellie Melba was one of the most famous singer during the Late Victorian Era through the early 20th century. Melba had a reputation as a difficult “diva”.

FYI - several dishes were developed for Melba by French chef Auguste Escoffier - among them Peach Melba and Melba toast.

Carmen Melis
b. 1885; Cagliari, Italy
d. 12-19-1967

Soprano Carmen Melis was instructed by Puccini himself for the role of Minnie in La Fanciulla del West. Melis was also a noted teacher: Renata Tebaldi once said of Melis, “Everything I needed to learn for the stage, I learnt from her.”

Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn
b. 11-14-1805; Hamburg
d. 5-14-1847

Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, was a composer and pianist of considerable skill. She married painter Wilhelm Hensel, and as her father instructed her, “Music . . . for you it can, and must be, only an ornament”.

• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Das Jahr (The Year)

Antonia Merce y Luque "La Argentina" Giclee Print

Antonia Mercé y Luque
“La Argentina”
b. 9-4-1890; Buenos Aires
d. 7-18-1936; France

Flamenco dancer Antonia Merce y Luque, whose stage name was “La Argentina”, originated and helped to establish the neoclassical style of Spanish dance as a theatrical art. She toured worldwide, often with flamenco guitarist Carlos Montoya.

Ethel Merman, née Ethel Agnes Zimmermann
b. 1-16-1908; Queens, NY
d. 2-15-1984

Ethel Merman, known for her powerful voice, is often called the “Queen of the Broadway Stage.”

• musicals

Cléo de Mérode, née Cléopatra Diane de Mérode
b. 9-27-1875; Paris, France
d. 10-17-1966

Cléo de Mérode was trained in ballet though chose to dance in a Paris music hall. She was renowned for her beauty that influenced Parisian style and for allegedly being the mistress of Belgian King Leopold II.

• Le Ballet de ma vie