Charles Manners (bass)
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Charles Manners was a British bass singer and opera company manager. His earliest performances were with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, first as a chorus member and then as a principal, creating the
Charles Manners and Alice Barnett in Iolanthe, 1882
Manners circa 1900
Colin McAlpin
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Colin McAlpin was an English composer of songs, operas and ballet music, an organist and a writer of critical essays on music.
Charles Manners (bass)
…of any value to me." Manners encouraged British composers to write for his company, offering prizes for the best operas: one of the prize-winners was Colin McAlpin's The Cross and the Crescent (1903). He sponsored opera festivals in Sheffield in 1904 and 1906, whose profits helped to found Sheffield University…
Colin McAlpin in 1903
The cast of Colin McAlpin's opera Robin Hood, at Wellingborough School, 1892. The man in black standing on the right resembles McAlpin.
The cover of the vocal score of McAlpin's opera King Arthur, signed by the composer
The cover of McAlpin's Ten Songs.