Person Open DS/UK/1584 Allin; Norman (19 November 1884-27 October 1973); British bass singer Allin Norman 19 November 1884-27 October 1973 British bass singer Male (cisgender) Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England (born)

British Musician; Singer, bass White No known disability No known religious affiliation Husband of Edith Clegg (teacher) Heterosexual Norman Allin was a British bass singer of the early and mid twentieth century, and later a teacher of voice. In 1912 he went to London, where the conductor Sir Henry Wood heard him and planned to involve him in the 1914 Norwich Festival. The festival was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. However, Allin did sing the Handel aria "O ruddier than the cherry", from Acis and Galatea, at a Promenade Concert for Wood during the war. Sir Thomas Beecham auditioned him and at once offered him the title role in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, but Allin felt a less challenging debut was needed. So, his first appearance for Beecham was as the Old Hebrew in Samson et Dalila on 15 October 1916. With the Beecham Opera Company he appeared, too, in Verdi's Aida. He first sang at a Royal Philharmonic concert, again under Beecham's baton, in 1918. He later appeared as Boris, as Gurnemanz in Wagner's Parsifal, Hagen in Wagner's Götterdämmerung and Baron Ochs in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 1921, he became a founder-member of the British National Opera Company. Allin created the role of Sir John Falstaff in Holst's 1925 opera At the Boar's Head. In 1934, he appeared in the initial Glyndebourne Festival production under Fritz Busch and Carl Ebert of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Allin (2020) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 9/13/2012 RAHAKIRKBRIDE 6/3/2025 1893ca2e-c1ea-4280-ba30-982e0ebb5fbb