Percy Heming [SEP] voice type
Percy Heming
Percy Heming (6 September 188311 January 1956) was an English operatic baritone singer and actor. He was noted for his performance as Scarpia in "Tosca" but was also known for his comic parts and lighter operas.
Percy Alfred Heming was born in Bristol on 6 September 1883 and trained at the Royal Academy of Music. At first working in productions for Sir Thomas Beecham he then worked for the British National Opera Company. He spent his career in the theatre until 1946, when he became an artistic
musical sketches Heming had written during and after his voyage to Africa. Percy Heming showed the sketches to Barbirolli, who engaged the composer and conductor Anthony Vincent Collins to edit the sketches into a work called "Threnody for a Soldier Killed in Action". The work was premiered at City Hall, Sheffield, by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Barbirolli, on 14 January 1944, which would have been Heming's 24th birthday. In 1945 Barbirolli recorded the piece on HMV with the Hallé Orchestra. Royalton Kisch, a schoolfriend at Wellington