John Sims Reeves (21 October 1821[1] – 25 October 1900) was an English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor vocalist during the mid-Victorian era.
Reeves began his singing career in 1838 but continued his vocal studies until 1847. He soon established himself on the opera and concert stage and became known for his interpretation of ballads. He continued singing through the 1880s and later taught and wrote about singing.
^Date thus in Reeves, The Life of J. Sims Reeves, Written by Himself (1888), p. 15: see also Reeves, My Jubilee (1889), p. 20, 'In 1839, when I had just entered upon my eighteenth year...' (i.e., his 17th birthday was in October 1838). But C. E. Pearce, in Sims Reeves – Fifty Years of Music in England pp. 17–18, (followed by most) shows a Woolwich parish baptism record (not birth) for 26 September 1818, of one John Reeves. If that was really the singer, that makes Reeves' and his oldest friends' statements unreliable, and postpones his voice breaking to age 16 against his direct statement this occurred age 12 (ibid. p. 20). John Reeves (1818) was possibly a sibling deceased before 1821.
John SimsReeves (21 October 1821 – 25 October 1900) was an English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor vocalist during the mid-Victorian era. Reeves began...
Royal Society of Arts. 98 (4810): 85. ISSN 0035-9114. J. SimsReeves, The Life of SimsReeves, written by himself (Simpkin Marshall, London 1888), 242–252...
he was in a hand-picked choir for Handel's Messiah, where the tenor SimsReeves headed the soloists, at the Eisteddfod at Rhuddlan Castle, and was in...
variety of extravagant entertainments including a singing performance by SimsReeves, a thirty-five to forty-piece military and quadrille band, al fresco...
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called the New Olympia Picturedrome. The building was demolished in 1940. SimsReeves, Mrs Marriott and James Robertson Anderson all performed there; the theatre...
opera Loretta:A Tale of Seville, as Don Juanito. In 1847 he supported SimsReeves there, at his debut in a leading role (Edgardo) in Lucia di Lammermoor...
built the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington at around the same time. SimsReeves sang on the opening day before an audience of 102,000. Only 16 days later...
(uncredited) Fort Apache (1948) as Southern Recruit Red River (1948) as SimsReeves 3 Godfathers (1948) as Deputy Curly The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) as...
Her first character of note was "Pocket SimsReeves", spoofing the act of the then-famous opera singer SimsReeves by performing his songs such as "The Anchor's...
Théâtre-Italien in 1851, he engaged Cruvelli and the tenor SimsReeves for both London and Paris. Reeves made his own Paris debut in the winter season in Linda...
new works was given in the final week. Distinguished singers including SimsReeves and Signor Foli appeared. In the first two decades Wood firmly established...
Williams, Elena D'Angri, Jetty Treffz, Elizabeth Rainforth, Mr and Mrs SimsReeves, John Braham, Giorgio Ronconi, Johann Baptist Pischek and Karl Formes;...
performed, the principal singers including Clara Novello, Charlotte Dolby, SimsReeves and Karl Formes, and the conductor being Michael Costa, as conductor...
singer in the title role of Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix opposite SimsReeves at Her Majesty's Theatre (March). Ida Henriette da Fonseca – Aly og Gulhyndy...
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called The New Olympia Picturedrome. The building was demolished in 1940. SimsReeves, Mrs Marriott and James Anderson all appeared here; also performed were...
Rosenthal and Warrack 1974. Mapleson 1888, I, 23-27. J. SimsReeves, The Life of SimsReeves written by himself (London: Simpkin Marshall, 1888), 220-221...
studied singing under John Wass, Ciro Pinsuti and Emma Lucombe (wife of SimsReeves). Whytock's first appearance, in 1860, was made at Birmingham under the...
article is about music-related events in 1851. February – Operatic tenor SimsReeves returns to perform in Dublin with his new wife, soprano Charlotte Emma...
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performing under this name, often humorously impersonating the famous tenor SimsReeves. See Barringon, p. 21 Ayre, p. 48 Stone, David. "Rutland Barrington"...
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