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Maria Vandamme delivers a discourse on the character, career and cultural significance of Dame Nellie Melba for Knowledge Cities Summit. Significantly, Melba's father, David Mitchell, was one of the great builders of 'Marvellous Melbourne'. His daughter Nellie Mitchell went on to become the undisputed queen of international opera, ruling the field for forty years but always retaining a loyalty to the land that had offered her family so much opportunity.