| Biography | Stella Power was an Australian soprano. She was an early student of Nellie Melba at her school of singing in Albert Street, East Melbourne and was given the name "the Little Melba" by Melba herself.
She travelled to the United States in 1918, to join Melba. She made her American debut in Philadelphia, then sang with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mischa Elman. Her tour ended in Los Angeles. While in the USA, she was recorded by Thomas A. Edison Inc. and on a later tour of England she was recorded by His Master's Voice. Her London debut was on 23 November 1919, when she appeared at the Albert Hall with Landon Ronald's orchestra. In 1926 she returned to the USA on a ten-year contract to Paramount Films to sing in picture theatres, touring for 45 weeks a year and performing four or five shows every day. |