Soprano; born in Farmington, Maine. She studied in Boston and began singing publicly in 1876. Following further studies in Milan, she made her operatic debut there in 1879 (and allowed her name to be changed to Nordica) and went on to successful appearances around Europe and England. Her Metropolitan Opera debut came in 1890; there and elsewhere she was acclaimed above all for her Wagnerian roles. Leaving the Met in 1909, she made concert tours until her retirement in 1913, and died in Java after a shipwreck.