Yvonne Minton (born December 4, 1938) is an Australian opera singer. She is variously billed as a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. December 4 is the 338th day (339th on leap years) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

She was born in Sydney and studied voice on a scholarship at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She won the National Eisteddfod in Canberra, as well as number of other singing competitions. She became one of the country's leading contraltos, appearing often on radio and television and with the Sydney and Queensland orchestras. Sydney Harbour looking south from the vicinity of the Sydney Harbour Bridge towards the CBD skyline; the Opera House is visible in the background on the left. ... The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (formerly the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music) is a faculty of the University of Sydney in Australia. ... The Eisteddfod (literally sitting) is a Welsh festival of literature, music, and song. ... Two of Canberras best-known landmarks, Parliament House and (foreground) Old Parliament House. ...

Ms. Minton left Australia in 1961 to pursue her studies in London. The same year, she won the Kathleen Ferrier Prize for the best contralto at the International Vocalist Competition at s’Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. Her first major part in England was as Maggie Dempster in the premiere of Nicholas Maw's One Man Show. 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Shortly thereafter, she became a regular member of the company of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. She has since appeared with most of the major English orchestras and in opera houses throughout Europe and the United States. She has also appeared at Bayreuth and the Salzburg Festival. In 1972, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Octavian in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Covent Garden is a shopping and entertainment complex in central London. ... Bayreuth is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Frankish Alb and the Fichtelgebirge. ... The Salzburg Festival is a prominent music festival in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The festival was founded in 1877 but was discontinued in 1910. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... The Metropolitan Opera is located at Lincoln Center in New York, New York. ... Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. ... Der Rosenkavalier (The Cavalier of the Rose) is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière’s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac. ...