Maine Memory Network

Red feather handscreen fan, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Feathers, fiber, ivory

Lillian Blauvelt in Romeo and Juliet, London, 1903

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1903 Media: Photographic print

Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva

Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.

Music in Maine - Music in Maine

"… differ from operas sung by 19th century Maine divas. Yet they are all uniquely Maine sounds. Music from around the world flooded into Maine through…"

Nordica Memorial Association

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"(A Yankee Diva by Ira Glacken). Eventually, Lillian was able to break into the operatic world, and became the delight of the European music community."