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Bessie Jones (Welsh singer)
Bessie Jones (1887 – November 1974) was a Welsh singer featured on some of the earliest recordings of songs from London musicals. Jones began a professional opera career soon after training at the Royal College of Music. From 1913 to 1926, she was a contract singer for HMV studios, recording numerous popular songs, Welsh folksongs and musical theatre songs, and appearing on recordings of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas and several other works. She also had an oratorio and concert career and sang in BBC radio broadcasts.
==Early life and career==
Jones studied at the Royal College of Music, where she won the operatic class prize in 1910 and the Henry Leslie prize for singers in 1912.〔"The Royal College of Music", ''The Times'', 25 Match 1910, p. 6; and "Royal College of Music Exhibitions", ''The Times'', 1 April 1912, p. 12〕 In the college's 1911 production of Cherubini's opera ''The Water Carrier'', Jones starred alongside George Baker under the direction of Richard Temple and Sir Charles Stanford.〔"Royal College of Music Operatic Performance", ''The Times'', 22 November 1911. p. 10〕 She sang at the Proms in 1913 under Sir Henry Wood,〔"The Promenade Concerts", ''The Times'', 22 August 1913, p. 6〕 and played Wellgunde and the Woodbird in Wagner's ''Ring'' cycle at Covent Garden under Artur Nikisch in 1914.〔"The Covent Garden Season – ''Das Rheingold''", ''The Manchester Guardian'', 22 April 1914, p. 5〕 ''The Manchester Guardian'' called her, "a new soprano with a sweet voice of considerable power."〔"The London Promenade Concerts", ''The Manchester Guardian'', 22 August 1913, p. 9〕
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