Education
Born in Camberwell, London, United Kingdom on 11 April 1928, Jeannette Sinclair attended Mary Datchelor Girls" School. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and later at the Opera School with Joan Cross and privately with Helene Isepp.
Career
She sang a variety of roles as a principal soprano at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, during the 1950s and 1960s. Her work for the British Broadcasting Corporation encompassed opera, oratorio and many recitals of lieder, English song and French chanson, light music and appearances at the British Broadcasting Corporation Henry Wood Promenade concerts, 1960-1969. Jeannette Sinclair made her debut in 1954 with Sadler"s Wells as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro.
Her Glyndebourne debut followed in 1955 as Barbarina in the Gui/Ebert production of Le nozze di Figaro.
She sang Belinda in Dido and Aeneas conducted by Britten, both at Drottningholm Palace in 1962 and in the later British Broadcasting Corporation recording. British Broadcasting Corporation Studio opera broadcasts included Beatrice and Benedict, Berlioz.
Fenemore and Gerda, Delius. Hugh the Drover, Vaughan Williams.
Die Abreise, Doctorate"Albert.
Performances of Gilbert and Sullivan included HMS Pinafore and, The Sorcerer. British Broadcasting Corporation Television appearances included Anne Page in the Merry Wives of Windsor and Nella in Gianni Schicchi with Tito Gobbi. World premiere of Scenes from Comus, Op 6, Hugh Wood, British Broadcasting Corporation Promenade Concert, 2 August 1965.
British Broadcasting Corporation Promenade Concerts premieres of Midsummer Marriage, Tippett, 7 August 1963.
Dixit Dominus HWV 232, Handel, 18 September 1964. Moses und Aron, Schoenberg, 19 July 1965.