Edward Lloyd (tenor)
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Edward Lloyd was a British tenor singer who excelled in concert and oratorio performance, and was recognised as a legitimate successor of John Sims Reeves as the foremost tenor exponent of that genre
Edward Lloyd, foremost English concert tenor of the 1880s and 1890s. The original performer of the 'soul' in Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.
Edward Lloyd, 1899
Lloyd as caricatured by Lib for Vanity Fair, 1892
Ben Davies (tenor)
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Ben Davies was a Welsh tenor singer, who appeared in opera with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, in operetta and light opera, and on the concert and oratorio platform. He was spoken of as a successor of E
Edward Lloyd (tenor)
…Hoare, under the direction of Frederick Cowen. In 1894 it was again Love in her eyes which Lloyd sang to perfection, though again he, Mme Albani, Ben Davies and Nellie Melba all had to accord first place in popular esteem to Charles Santley, who received stupendous applause. On Jubilee Sunday 1897 he performed…
Ben Davies as Geoffrey Wilder in Alfred Cellier's Dorothy, circa 1887. Photo by Walery Studios, London.