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Article: OBITUARY : Bruce Boyce
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 15, 1996
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The American baritone Bruce Boyce was best known as a concert
singer, especially in the Bach Passions and in Delius's A Mass of
Life, which he recorded under Sir Thomas Beecham, and as a
recitalist, most particularly as a singer of Lieder. He also
appeared in opera and will be remembered by many opera-loving
Londoners of my generation as the first Don Giovanni they heard and
saw on stage.
His fine and resonant voice, tall figure and air of authority
made him a notable Giovanni: that was in 1948 at the Cambridge
Theatre. A few years later he sang the Count in The Marriage of
Figaro at Covent Carden, under the baton of Erich Kleiber, and that
interpretation was also memorable.
Boyce (whose ...