Berthold Tours John Stainer. The works he edited included "Iphigenia in Aulis", "Iphigenia in Tauris" and "Orpheus" by Gluck; "L'Étoile du nord" by Meyerbeer; "Il seraglio" and "Zauberflöte" by Mozart; "Guillaume Tell" by Rossini; "Der Fliegender Holländer" and "Lohengrin" by Wagner; "Euryanthe" by Weber; Mendelssohn's "Elijah"; Gounod's "Mors et Vita" and "Redemption", numerous piano albums, and many others. He also arranged scores of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for piano and voice. He was also a composer and composed a cantata for female voices called "The Home of Titania" (1893); an anthem entitled "A Festival Ode" (1893) for organ and soprano, which was
Donald Shanks (bass-baritone) "Norma" with Dame Joan Sutherland, "La bohème" with Luciano Pavarotti, and Banquo in "Macbeth" with Sherrill Milnes. Other roles he became associated with were Zaccharia in "Nabucco", Rocco in "Fidelio", Osmin in "The Abduction from the Seraglio", Boris in "Boris Godunov", Timur in "Turandot", Ramphis in "Aida", Pistol in "Falstaff", Kekal in "The Bartered Bride", Baron Ochs in "Der Rosenkavalier", Nourabad in "The Pearl Fishers", the Commendatore in "Don Giovanni", and a major role in Leoš Janáček's "The Cunning Little Vixen". He created the role of The Maestro in Alan John's 1995 opera "The Eighth Wonder" at the Sydney Opera