Minton, Yvonne (1938– )

Australian mezzo-soprano. She studied in Sydney and moved to Europe in 1960. She was seen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London from 1965, as Marina, Dorabella, Brangaene, Waltraute, Orpheus, Sextus, and Thea in the 1970 first performance of Tippett's The Knot Garden. She sang Octavian at Chicago in 1970 and at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York in 1973. She appeared at Bayreuth in the 1976 centenary production of the Ring (as Fricka and Waltraute). In 1979, at the Paris Opéra, she was Countess Geschwitz, in the first performance of completed three-act version of Berg's Lulu. During the 1993/94 season she appeared as Berlioz's Marguerite at Wellington and Mme Larina in Eugene Onegin at Glyndebourne. She was was awarded the CBE in 1980.