 B. Welsh and Alfred Blume.He made his debut in London (at the People's Palace, Mile End) in 1888, in Handel's "Messiah", and in the next year appeared in Gounod's "Redemption".In 1890 he made operatic debuts as Commendatore in "Don Giovanni" and as the Duke of Verona in "Romeo et Juliette", at Covent Garden.