Barton McGuckin
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Barton McGuckin was an Irish tenor singer of renown, who made his career principally in Britain with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, but also gained a wide success in oratorio and concert. Richard Ellman
Barton Mc Guckin 1895
Esmeralda (Thomas)
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Esmeralda is an opera in four acts composed by Arthur Goring Thomas to an English-language libretto by Theo Marzials and Alberto Randegger based on Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Barton McGuckin
…great success, both for brilliant singing and for his acting. In this period he created several important roles, notably Phoebus in Arthur Thomas's Esmeralda (with Georgina Burns, Clara Perry, William Ludwig, Ben Davies (his operatic debut) and Leslie Crotty, in 1883; next Orso, the hero, in Alexander…
The composer in 1892
Selections from Esmeralda, sheet music published by Oliver Distson & Co., 1883
Georgina Burns (1860–1932), Esmeralda in the 1883 premiere
The Court of Miracles depicted in an illustration by Gustave Doré for The Hunchback of Notre-Dame