Operatic Farewell
Austin's last formal operatic performance was as Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro for Beecham, at Covent Garden in 1920. Neville Cardus, who saw him in the role beside Agnes Nicholls and Frederick Ranalow, wrote: ‘nobody else has passed across the closing scene of the opera with half of Austin's grace of bearing and suggestion of courtly cynicism.’
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