Yvonne Fay Minton CBE (born 4 December 1938) is an Australian-born but mostly British-resident opera singer. She is variously billed as a soprano, mezzo-soprano or contralto.
A native of Sydney, she studied voice while on a scholarship at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music. She won the £1000 Shell Aria, run in conjunction with the 1960 National Eisteddfod, Canberra. By this stage she had become one of the country's leading contraltos, often appearing on radio and television and with the Sydney and Queensland orchestras.
Minton left Australia in 1961 to pursue her studies in London.
Sources
- New York Times review of Eugene Onegin at Glyndebourne, 4 June 1994, accessed 21 January 2010
- Musicweb review of Berlioz recordings, accessed 21 January 2010
References
External links
- Discography
- Yvonne Minton and Marilyn Zschau in Elektra on video
- Photo of Yvonne Minton (1991), by David Franklin, at National Library of Australia.
- Two Interviews with Yvonne Minton by Bruce Duffie, 28 October 1981 & 19 November 1992