Eva Mylott

Eva Theresa Mylott (27 February 1875 – 20 March 1920) was an Australian contralto opera singer.

Early life Eva Mylott was born in Tuross Head, New South Wales. 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. Patrick was born 1838 in County Mayo, the son of Patrick Mylott and Mary McDermott. He arrived in 1861 aboard the John Masterman. Mylott became a protégé of Dame Nellie Melba and in 1902, she went to England with her to pursue an opera career outside Australia. leaving two-year-old Hutton and infant Alexis in the care of her husband, who died seventeen years later.