Ben Davies (singer)
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Ben Davies (January 6, 1858 – March 28, 1943) was a Welsh operatic tenor.
Davies was a versatile performer, singing in opera, with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, operetta and oratorio, as well as on the concert stage. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music and made his debut in 1881 in Michael Balfe's The Bohemian Girl. In 1887 he played the male lead in Dorothy, one of his best-known roles. He was conducted by Sir Arthur Sullivan in the latter's opera Ivanhoe in 1891, and in the following year he made his Covent Garden debut in Faust. In 1893 he performed at the Chicago World's Fair and soon became very popular in the United States, where he toured regularly. He made many recordings after the turn of the century, some of which have survived.
