Linda Anne Hutchison

Linda Anne Hutchison (born 6 June 1945) is a British singing teacher and vocal health expert, and a retired singer and actress. She is best known for her performances of leading soprano roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

Hutchison grew up in Elgin, Scotland, where she developed an early interest in singing and acting. In 1960 she was recruited by the nearby Gordonstoun School, a boys' school, to sing Belinda in a production of Dido and Aeneas and, over the next two years played Yum-Yum in The Mikado and Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 1966. She received further training at the Else Mayer-Lismann Operatic Workshop in London, and while there she began to accept freelance engagements, including operatic performances, recitals, tours and festivals.

She joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1969 as a chorister, and the next year she was promoted, playing seven of the principal roles in the company's repertoire over the next three years, including at the company's first visit to continental Europe since the 1880s. She left the company in June 1973. Afterwards, she returned to freelance performing, singing roles in opera and oratorio, and giving other concerts and recitals, often together with her husband. In 1981, she began to teach singing in parallel with her performing career, and in 1997 she began to apprentice with a voice clinic for singers and actors. Under a National Health Service contract, she became singing adviser at clinics run by several hospitals. She eventually taught for Guildhall School, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Royal Academy of Music the and the London College of Music & Media and was a guest lecturer at other institutions. She was a director and a president of the British Voice Association and served on the Council of the Association of Teachers of Singing, for which she teaches an annual teacher training course.

Hutchison is co-author of the singing book If in Doubt, Breathe Out! (2016).