Frances Yeend (1913-2008) was an American soprano, active in opera, concert music and broadcast performance. She sang with major American orchestras and at the Metropolitan Opera.

In the Pristine catalogue she appears in Beethoven, Mahler and Bruckner-related performances with Koussevitzky and Bruno Walter.

Yeend’s singing combined lyric brightness with the discipline required by large choral-symphonic repertory. Her voice could carry through big musical architecture without losing line.

Her page is justified by repeated catalogue appearances and by her place in American vocal history. Yeend adds a clear soprano beam to Pristine’s American broadcast material.