Alice Nielsen - Last Rose Of Summer

recorded 4/21/1908 Thomas Moore (author) Friedrich von Flotow (arranger) Alice Nielsen in 1900, age about 25, was America’s biggest box-office draw. “We love our Nielsen, and proud she is an American“, said the press. Touring 40,000 miles a year in North America between 1896 and 1901, her shows were Standing Room Only. In New York City, Nielsen became a Broadway star in Victor Herbert’s The Serenade. Herbert had written his sixth operetta for prima donna Alice Nielsen and her newly formed Alice Ni