After having his voice trained at the Royal College of Music in London, and after fighting World War II, he made his stage debut in
1948 (Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Edinburgh Festival).
He was first of all a concert singer, but appeared a lot also in opera, both at Saddler's Wells, where he would sing main roles, and
at Covent Garden (1955 to 1970), where he was a comprimario. Other than that, he sang opera in Glyndebourne, Edinburgh, Glasgow and
Cardiff, and abroad in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oslo and Wexford.
His operatic repertory focused on Händel, Mozart (Belmonte, Idomeneo, Tamino, Ferrando, Don Ottavio), Rossini (Almaviva, Comte
Ory, Don Ramiro), and modern works, his signature role being Tom Rakewell. His comprimario parts included David (Meistersinger),
Monostatos or Vašek.
From 1973 to 1986, he taught voice in Manchester.
Reference 1, reference 2: Kutsch & Riemens
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