Eva Mylott | |
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![]() Eva Mylott circa 1900 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Eva Theresa Mylott |
Born | Tuross Head, New South Wales, Australia | 16 September 1875
Died | 20 March 1920 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | (aged 45)
Genres | Opera |
Occupation(s) | Singer |
Eva Theresa Mylott (27 February 1875 – 20 March 1920) was an Australian contralto opera singer. [1]
Eva Mylott was born in Tuross Head, New South Wales, Australia. [2] Her parents, Patrick Mylott (1838-1899), an importer of wine and spirits and Mary Heffernan (1839-1931) (the daughter of Edmund and Honora Heffernan), were Irish Roman Catholics who settled in the Colony of New South Wales. [3] Patrick was born 1838 in County Mayo, the son of Patrick Mylott and Mary McDermott. He arrived in 1861 aboard the John Masterman. [4] Mylott became a protégé of Dame Nellie Melba and in 1902, she went to England with her to pursue an opera career outside Australia. [1]
On 17 June 1917 in New York City, she married American businessman John Hutton Gibson (died ca. 1933); they had two sons: Hutton Gibson in 1918 and Alexis Mylott Gibson. [1]
Mylott died in 1920, aged 45, in Chicago, after slipping in the shower and injuring her neck, [5] leaving two-year-old Hutton and infant Alexis in the care of her husband, who died seventeen years later. [6]
Mylott is the paternal grandmother of actor and film director Mel Gibson. [1]