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The packed house at Sadler's Wells Theatre on 12th February 1972 were highly amused and entertained at Linda Anne Hutchison's very Scottish Phyllis, complete with tartan plaid; one wonders how many there knew that in fact she was adopting the accent of her native country, for she was born in Perth and brought up in Elgin in the north-east of Scotland.
It was there that her training to be a singer began and she studied the piano, elocution, and ballet. From an early age she appeared in concerts, plays, and dancing displays, and sang her first Gilbert and Sullivan roles at Gordonstoun School, She came to London at the tender age of sixteen to study at the Guildhall School of Music, where she won the Opera Prize. After that she continued to study privately with the help of a Caird Scholarship, and was a finalist in the 1969 Ferrier Competition. She joined the D'Oyly Carte the same year, and after only twelve months in the chorus she won quick and deserved promotion to the principal roles.
In July 1971 Linda married Gordon Stewart, a Professor at the Royal College of Music. She left the company in 1973.
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