The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-12
LILLIAN NORDICA
 DIED ON SUNDAY
FAMOUS SINGER sUCCUMBs TO ATTACK OF PNEUMONIA CON-
 TRACTED IN SEA WRECK.
Took Cold When Steamer Went Ashore and Never Recovered From the Effects of Illness.

last night.
 Lillian Nordica was an American singer of worldwide fam
 Mme. Nordica had been ill since the steamer Tasman. on which she was passenger, went ashore in the gulf of Papua December 2S last, Nervous prostration was followed by pneumonia.
 The Tasman was floated in three days and put into Thursday Island. There Madame Nordica was placed under the care of a physician, who re- mained in constant attendance upon her until April 1, when she sailed for Batavia.
 Arriving here the singer recovered somewhat after a stay of three weeks. A relapse occurred, however, and phy- sicians gave up all hope of her recoy- cry.
 Nordica and although the latter was born of American parents ia far-off China-were of old New Eugland stock. both claimed by the state of Maine, and they made up a notable American contribution to the | ourratic world. A farmhouse, built by the prima donna's great-grandfather on q hi just outside the village of Pennington, Me, was Nordica's birth place in lS59 Her true name was Lillian Norton She changed it to the Italian, Nordica, 20 years later, when she began to study in Italy for an operatic career
 After her graduation from the New Englaud Conservatory of Music at Boston. and successful singing of the leading roles in several of the ora torios given by the Handel and Haydn Society, she went to Europe, in 1878. as a soloist with Gilmore s band. She clng tenaciously to class ical music and was well received by great audiences in the Crystal Palace, London. and the Trocadero, Paris. She decided to remain in Europe and attempt an operatic career She went to Milan and became a pupil of Sar' giovanni and within six months she had mastered ten opera
 Her debut in opera was at Brescia i in 1879 in La Traviata.' After a trip to st. Petersburg, she appeared for a trial before Ambrose Thomas and the impressario, Vancerbeil, who engaged her for the grand opera house in Paris Her first appearance there, 1 in 1882. as "Marguerite' in Faust" was a triumph. The critics observed her American accent, but said it gave piouaucy to her tone, and her actins was lauded as equal to her singing.
 She returned to America and toured the country with great success. In the succeeding years she appeared in opera or concert in most every city of musical culture in the world. Her repertoire included more than 50 operas. Her success with Wagaerian roles became the pinnacle of heI fame At Bayreuth in 1894 she ap peared as Elsa in 'I-ohengrin' 70 and she is. perhaps. best remembered in that part She received decorations of various sorts abroad, and gifts without number from friends at home, The stockholders Of the MetropolitaG Opera House presented her with : diamond tiara
 Her matrimonial ventures number ed three She was first married io 1882 to Frederick A. Cover a wea tby electrician and native of her state Iof Maine. whom she met in Paris Shortly after she had begun separa ton proceedings in 1884, Cover dis Iappeared. He attempted balloon trip across the English channel. Al though the balloon was later found nothing was ever heard or seen o him
 h 1896 Nine NOrdica married Zo' ton Doeme, a Hungarian army office and singer from whom she secured divorce in 1905.
 Her third marriage was in London in 1909, to George w. Young, veal thy New York banker. It was an nounced at that time that Nordic' wonld retire from the stage, but afte honeymoon spent il part of the ol' Norton homestead in Maine, she de cided upon a farewell concert tour O inc world. It was while making oD' leg of this trip on the Dutch steame Tasman that the vessel ran ashore or Thursday Island in the Antipodes The shock of the accident and eX posure brought on penumonia.
 Her body undoubtedly will b'
 brought directly to this country an'
 he buried near the old homestead il Maine.
 The Nordica fortune must be large f It was published as a fact in 1909 tha she had made $12S000 during tha , season alone. Much Of her mo1e. ' went toward realizing her dream O } "a Beyreuth in America She bough } a large tract of and along the Hudson 7 near Ossining, and with great enthu siasm. sketched plans for a great mu , sical institute It was said million dollars was back of the scheme, bu l it was never broueht to full realiza 0 tion
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