Walter Hyde & Jeanne Brola

as Olga & Michael in "IVAN THE TERRIBLE" by Sergei Prokofiev

Jeanne Brola
(Jean Lane Brooks)
1871-1956
American soprano.

She reached operatic fame in the early 1900s when she appeared at Italy's La Scala Opera House and London's Covent Garden. She also appeared in Vienna and Berlin During the First World War she was a leading member of the Quinlan and Beecham companies, featuring on the world tour made by Quinlan. In 1919 and 1920 she appeared at Covent Garden, as Tosca, Giorgetta and Lauretta. Roles sung elsewhere included Aïda, Nedda, Desdemona, Marguerite, Manon, Mimì, Freia, Gutrune and Eva.

Walter Hyde
1875-1951
English Tenor

Studied at College of Music under Gustave Garcia and Walter Parratt, His early professional career was in musical comedy,
Percy Pitt then recruited him to sing Siegmund in the 1908 English language Ring cycles at Covent Garden, Worked regularly at Covent Garden until 1923. , He worked extensively with Beecham's company, and in the twenties became a director of BNOC, continuing to sing with them until they folded.He sang Siegmund at the New York Met, After Siegmund, his most notable Wagnerian role was probably Parsifal.He later became Professor of Singing at the Guildhall School of Music, where his students included John Heddle Nash and Eric Shilling.

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