Opera Singer. A lyric soprano, she had a long career on Broadway, operatic, and recital stages. Raised in Missouri from about age two, she was moved to Kansas City folowing the death of her father, an itinerant musician. Alice started singing for money on the city streets and while still a young girl was chosen to represent her state in a concert presented for Grover Cleveland at the White House. Returning home she appeared with the Julius Grau Opera Company and performed in church choirs. In the early 1890s Alice escaped a bad marriage by relocating to San Francisco where she played in vaudeville and took-on about 150 comprimaria roles with the Trivoli Opera Company. Moving on to New York City in 1896 she got her first taste of stardom on Broadway as the lead of Victor Herbert's "Serenade", a role written for her. She formed her own Alice Nielsen Opera Company and toured extensively; Alice first traveled to London in 1901 where she was a hit in Herbert's "The Fortune Teller". She soon disbanded her company to persue further vocal training with Enrico Bevignani then signing with the San Carlo Opera Company, she was to be one of their major attractions, her staple roles including Mimi in Puccini's "La Boheme", Norina of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale", and Violetta from Verdi's "La Traviata". She was to appear with the then popular ensemble at New York's Metropolitan Opera, and in New Orleans, Montreal, Chicago, Boston, and elsewhere; in 1905 she was to be an acclaimed Mimi at Covent Garden, London, in a "La Boheme" cast that headlined Enrico Caruso and Antonio Scotti. From about 1910 on she was a regular on the concert stage at Carnegie Hall and other top venues, frequently sharing the limelight with famed tenor John McCormack. Alice last appeared on Broadway in 1917's "Kitty Darlin'" and gave her final performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1922. She sang at a 1925 memorial concert for Victor Herbert and was to gradually reduce her schedule, though she did give occasional recitals almost until her death. Alice left a significant recorded legacy which covers most of her time before the public, though the best discs date from around 1910.