Webster Booth
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Webster Booth (21 January 1902 – 21 June 1984) was an English tenor, best remembered as the duettist partner of Anne Ziegler. He was also one of the finest tenors of his generation and was a distinguished oratorio soloist.
He was a chorister at Lincoln Cathedral (1911–1915) and made his professional stage debut with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, where he performed from 1923 to 1927. He made his West End Debut in The Three Musketeers in 1930. He began recording for HMV in 1929 and made over 500 solo recordings and many duet recordings with Anne Ziegler. He and Ziegler embarked on their famous duettist variety act in 1940. They starred in three musical plays, "The Vagabond King" (1943), "Sweet Yesterday" (1945) and toured in "And so to Bed" (1953–1954) and appeared in several musical films in the 1940s. They made frequent broadcasts together. In 1948 they went on a successful concert tour of New Zealand and Australia.
When musical tastes changed in the 1950s they decided to emigrate to South Africa in 1956 where they continued their stage work as well as teaching singing in their Johannesburg studio. They returned to the United Kingdom in 1978 where they broadcast on BBC radio, appeared on television in the Russell Harty Show and made personal appearances throughout the United Kingdom in "An Evening with Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth". Booth died on 21 June 1984 at the age of 82.
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- To Mary - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- The Knotting Song, Z.371 - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- Three Songs, Op. 3: I. Love's Philosophy - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6: II. O Mistress Mine - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- Die Walkure, WWV 86B, Act I: 'Winter Storms Have Waned' - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- I Pagliacci, Act I: 'On With the Motley' - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- An Sylvia, Op. 106, No. 4 - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- Frederica: Act III, 'A Heart as Pure as Gold' - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- Elijah, Op. 70: Then Shall the Righteous - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- As Ever I Saw - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- In a Persian Garden: Ah! Moon of My Delight - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, Op. 30: I. Onaway! Awake, Beloved! - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- Maritana, Act II: 'Yes! Let me Like a Soldier Fall!' - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- The Land of Smiles, Act I: 'Patiently Smiling' - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- Songs of Travel: The Vagabond - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- Hugh The Drover: Act I, 'Song of the Road' - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- 6 Songs, Op. 37: No. 6 Eleanore - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- Carmen, Act II: 'Flower Song' - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- The Gondoliers, Act II: 'Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes' - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- Im Fruling, D. 882 - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- Auf der Bruck, D. 853 - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- Merrie England, Act II: 'The English Rose' - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- Manon, Act II: 'As I Closed my Eyes' - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- The Foggy, Foggy Dew - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
- The Briery Bush - Great British Tenors - Webster Booth
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