Career
The entry in K.J. Kutsch & Leo Riemens "Grosses Sängerlexicon" specifies that she was born in Wigan, near Manchester, on 27 March 1928 and studied at the Northern College of Music with Margaret Dillon and Ellis Keeler, and then in London with Joan Cross, Dame Eva Turner and Roy Henderson. Her debut was in 1961 as Desdemona in Rossini"s Otello with the Philopera Company. She joined the Welsh National Opera in 1962 and the English National Opera in 1963, specialising in operas by Verdi, Puccini and Richard Strauss.
