Clytie Hine

Clytie May Hine, (later Mundy) (8 May 1887 – 27 June 1983) was an Australian-born operatic soprano who became a renowned voice teacher in New York.

Clytie Hine was an only child, born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1887 to William Henry Hine, a jeweller and Mary McDonald. At age 16, having studied piano privately since age 7, she commenced studies with Bryceson Treharne at the Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide. Her voice studies were under Frederick Bevan. She graduated in 1908 and the following year travelled to London to study under Medora Henson at the Royal College of Music. On the strength of her performance in Schumann's Genoveva at the RCM, she made her professional debut as Freia in Wagner's Das Rheingold at Covent Garden in 1911, with the Denhof Opera Company.

She later sang with the Beecham Opera Company in roles such as Nedda, Santuzza, Musetta, Elsa, Desdemona, Sophie, and the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro. In 1915 she was the soprano soloist in Sir Edward Elgar's incidental music for the first production of Algernon Blackwood's The Starlight Express. During the development of the production, she and the other soloists were regular visitors at Elgar's home.

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