Yvonne Minton

Yvonne Fay Minton CBE (born December 4, 1938 in Sydney ) is an Australian opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ) who achieved world fame in the 1970s as Kundry ( Parsifal ), Brangäne ( Tristan and Isolde ) and Octavian ( Der Rosenkavalier ), but also as Fricka ( Die Walküre ), Dorabella ( Così fan tutte ) and Béatrice ( Béatrice et Bénédict ) shone.

Minton studied in her hometown, but has lived in London since 1961 , where she was a long-time member of the Covent Garden Opera Company . She started her career as an alto and won the Kathleen Ferrier Prize . She appeared regularly at the Bayreuth Festival and the Salzburg Festival . Minton also worked occasionally as oratorios - and as a song singer .

Discography (selection)

• Così fan tutte : with Otto Klemperer
• La clemenza di Tito : with Colin Davis
• The Rheingold : with Marek Janowski
• The Valkyrie : with Marek Janowski
• Parsifal : with Rafael Kubelík and with Armin Jordan
• Tristan and Isolde : with Leonard Bernstein and with Carlos Kleiber
• Der Rosenkavalier : with Georg Solti and Christoph von Dohnányi
• The Dream of Gerontius : with Benjamin Britten
• Mass in B minor : with Karl Münchinger
• Messiah : with Margaret Price (soprano), Colin Tilney (tenor), Alexander Young (bass), Amor Artis Chorale and the English Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Johannes Somary
• Pierrot Lunaire : under the direction of Pierre Boulez .

Web links

• Works by and about Yvonne Minton in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography with photos (English)
• Yvonne Minton in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)