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.
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.
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
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…London. In the same year his opera in four acts, The Cross and the Crescent, first produced at Covent Garden by the Moody-Manners company, won him the Manners Prize of £250 for the best opera by a British composer, and it was performed subsequently in Glasgow and Edinburgh. A one-act opera The Vow staged at…
Charles Manners and Alice Barnett in Iolanthe, 1882
Manners circa 1900