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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 1, 25 April 1884, Page 19

Mile. Nevada, the American prima donna, has become a convert to the Catholic faith. She will shortly receive the Sacrament of Baptism at the English Passionist Church. Her real name is Miss Emma Wixon. She is the daughter of a Dr. Wixon and was born in a mining camp in Nevada County, Cal., where her father kept a small inn in 1857. Her voice was carefully cultivated and she made her fint appearance in London at the Haymarket as Amina in "La Somnambula "on May 18^1880. It was not until May 17, 1883, that she appeared in Paris, where ehe made something of a sensation as Zorain Felicien David's * Pearl of Brazil" at the opera Comique Mrs. Mackay will act as sponsor with M. Gounod at the reception of Mile. Nevada, into the Church. The Rev. Matthew Kelly ia her in•tractor and has prepared her for admission to the Church. — Pilot.