Lewis, Richard (1914–1990)

English tenor. He studied privately with T W Evans at the Royal Manchester College of Music and later at the Royal Academy of Music, London with Norman Allin. In 1947 he worked in the Glyndebourne chorus and also sang Peter Grimes at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, where he subsequently created Walton's Troilus and Tippett's Mark and sang Aron in the first UK performance of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, in 1965. He was also heard in concert singing Elgar and Mahler, and sang in the first performance of Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum, in Venice in 1956.