Norman Allin [SEP] voice type
Norman Allin
Norman Allin (19 November 1884 – 27 October 1973) was a British bass singer of the early and mid twentieth century, and later a teacher of voice.
Early studies.
Allin was born in Ashton-under-Lyne in 1884. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music under John Acton (singing) and Walter Carroll (theory). He married the teacher Edith Clegg in 1912 and went to London, where the conductor Sir Henry Wood heard him and planned to involve him
such as "Qui sdegno non-s'accende" (Mozart, "Die Zauberflöte"), "She alone charmeth my sadness" (Gounod, "La reine de Saba") and "O ruddier than the cherry" (Handel, "Acis and Galatea"), all of which remained in the standard English concert repertoire well into the twentieth century, and were recorded by such singers as David Bispham, Peter Dawson, Robert Radford or Norman Allin. Foli's voice was powerful but of beautiful quality, its compass