Walter Hyde by Aime Dupont

Walter Hyde as Pinkerton 'Madama Butterfly" Puccini

WALTER HYDE
(Birmingham 1875 - London 1951)
English Tenor

He trained in London at the Royal 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, which were conducted by Hans Richter and directed by E C Hedmondt. He continued to work regularly at Covent Garden until 1923.
He sang Siegmund at the New York Met, and in 1912 toured the USA in Robin Hood. After Siegmund, his most notable Wagnerian role was probably Parsifal. He later became Professor of Singing at the Guildhall School of Music