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Frances Yeend Oper

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* 28.01.1913 in Vancouver, WA Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika

+ 27.04.2008 in Morgantwon, WV Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika

Todesursache: natural causes

Biografie

Frances Yeend, an internationally known soprano who appeared regularly with the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in the decades after World War II, died on April 27 in Morgantown, W.Va. She was 95 and lived in Morgantown. Ms. Yeend's husband, James Benner, confirmed the death. Most recently Ms. Yeend was an emeritus faculty member of West Virginia University in Morgantown, where she was a professor of music and artist in residence from 1966 to 1978. Ms. Yeend (her surname rhymed with ''bend'') made her City Opera debut in 1948 as Violetta in Verdi's ''Traviata.'' She remained with the company for more than a decade; her roles included the Countess in Mozart's ''Marriage of Figaro,'' Marguerite in Gounod's ''Faust,'' Eva in Richard Wagner's ''Meistersinger'' and the title roles in Puccini's ''Turandot'' and Verdi's ''Aida.'' In 1961 Ms. Yeend made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Richard Strauss's ''Elektra.'' Ms. Yeend sang Violetta at the Met the next year. Her last performance with the Met was in 1963, as Gutrune in Wagner's ''Götterdämmerung.'' Frances Leone Lynch was born on Jan. 28, 1913, in Vancouver, Wash., and reared in Portland, Ore. She had little formal instruction until her college years at Washington State College (now Washington State University). Besides her husband, a pianist whom she married in 1954, Ms. Yeend is survived by a son, Warren Yeend of Los Altos Hills, Calif.; one grandchild; and two great-grandchildren. Her first marriage, to Kenneth Yeend, ended in divorce. Ms. Yeend's recordings include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic under Bruno Walter and Arthur Honegger's oratorio ''Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher'' (''Joan of Arc at the Stake'') with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Her other roles include Mimi in Puccini's ''Bohème'' with the Covent Garden Opera Company and Violetta with the Vienna State Opera. In the late 1940s Ms. Yeend toured with the tenor Mario Lanza and the bass-baritone George London; they were known collectively as the Bel Canto Trio.

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