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
Sims Reeves
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John Sims Reeves was an English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor vocalist during the mid-Victorian era.
Edward Lloyd (tenor)
…March 1845 – 31 March 1927) 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 during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Edward Lloyd was born in London, into a musical family…
Reeves, c. 1889
Reeves with Catherine Hayes at La Scala, 1846
Reeves in the title role of Fra Diavolo, which he first performed in 1852 at Drury Lane
1860s photograph of Reeves