June Bronhill

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Biography

Singer

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·soundtrack
  • Country
  • Australia
  • Nationality
  • Australian
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 26 June 1929
  • Place of birth
  • Broken Hill
  • Death date
  • 2005-01-24
  • Death age
  • 76
  • Place of death
  • Sydney

Music

Movies

TV

Books

Awards

Trivia

She was an Australian Opera singer.

She sang in operas, operettas and musicals.

She sang with the Sadlers Wells Opera Company in England (the forerunner of the of the English National Opera).

She adopted the name Bronhill (a contraction of the name of her home town Broken Hill) in gratitude for the financial help help given by the people of the town towards her operatic career.

She was awarded the Sydney Sun Aria contest in 1950.

She sung with the Australian Opera, the Victorian State Opera and the State Opera of South Australia.

Retired in 1993

She was treated for breast cancer.

She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1977 Queens New Years Honours List for his services to the performing arts.

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