Oragami Inspired Papier Mache Box Owned By Opera Singer Frances Yeend

Frances Yeend Opera Singer Owned Papier Mache Oragami Box

The owner of my favorite antique shop was a friend of Frances Yeend. He purchased this box from her estate auction. I had purchased a brooch that I posted here awhile back.

Frances Yeend (28 January 1913 – 27 April 2008) was an American classical soprano who had an active international career as a concert and opera singer during the 1940s through the 1960s. She had a long and fruitful association with the New York City Opera between 1948 and 1958, after which she joined the roster of principal sopranos at the Metropolitan Opera where she sang between 1961 and 1963. She also had an extensive concert career, particularly in the United States. By 1963 she had sung in more than 200 orchestral concerts in North American with major symphonies like the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra among others.