Peter Dawson (bass-baritone)
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Peter Smith Dawson was an Australian bass-baritone and songwriter in the 1920s and 1930s, when he was possibly the most popular singer of that era. He said that at the time the gramophone was "an inst
Peter Smith Dawson
Peter Dawson singing with New South Wales police in the 1930s
Cover of the program for Dawson's 1931 concert in Adelaide with pianist Mark Hambourg
Walter Hyde
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Walter Hyde was a British tenor, actor and teacher of voice whose career spanned genres from musical theatre to grand opera. In 1901 he sang Borrachio in the premiere of Stanford's Much Ado About Noth
Peter Dawson (bass-baritone)
…high A or A-flat. In 1909, he appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as the Night Watchman in The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (opposite tenor Walter Hyde as David), with Hans Richter conducting. During one of these performances, after winning a large amount playing poker in the wings, he hurried on at…
Walter Hyde
Richard Green (left), Hyde, Sybil Arundale, and Decima Moore (right) in My Lady Molly (1903)
Hyde in Miss Hook of Holland (1907)
Hyde as Siegmund in Die Walküre at the Royal Opera House (1908)