Monica Sinclair as the Marquise Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon

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Monica Sinclair as the Marquise in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment. Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon
Monica Sinclair (23 March 1925 – 7 May 2002) was
a British operatic contralto, who
sang many
roles with the
Royal Opera, Covent Garden during the
1950s and 1960s,
and appeared on stage and in recordings with Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Callas, Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Malcolm Sargent and many others. She had a great gift for comedy, and sang in recordings of many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, as well as in recordings from the standard operatic repertory.
Louis Mélançon
(1901-1974) was the in-house
photographer
for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.