he appeared alongside Rita Hunter as Brünnhilde and Alberto Remedios as Siegfried. The recordings from live performances in English at the London Coliseum are often regarded as constituting a classic audio Ring cycle. Another major Wagner role was Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which he sang in many opera houses including the Bayreuth Festival in 1969 and 1970, the ENO and the New York City Opera. He recorded it with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Solti on Decca/London, and in English from the ENO conducted by Goodall on Chandos. In 1976, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in this role. He appeared as Barak in Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss in a 1981 Welsh National Opera production, and as the Father in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel at the ENO. Also in the 1980s, he was heard in the role of Dr. Engel in the first recording of the complete score of the operetta The Student Prince by Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly. He also performed with the Royal Opera House and in many other opera houses around the world. In 1985, he participated in the world premiere of Alexander Goehr's Die Wiedertäufer (Behold the Sun) at the Duisburg house of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. He made his debut with the Glyndebourne Opera in Alban Berg's Lulu in 1996 at age 65, and celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday by singing the role of Sarastro in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Eliza R. Snow Performing Arts Center in Rexburg, Idaho. Bailey appeared on BBC television and radio almost 100 times, including both performances and interviews. He was a castaway on an October 1976 edition of Desert Island Discs, and was pictured, alongside Patricia Johnson, on the cover of the 3–9 December 1977 edition of the Radio Times. An American citizen at the time of his death, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1977 New Year Honours. In 1981, he was appointed Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon RAM). Bailey built up a sizable teaching studio and taught for several years at the Royal College of Music, London. In Teton Valley, he joined the adjunct staff at Brigham Young University, Idaho. Personal life In 1957, Bailey married Doreen Simpson, whom he had met in a choir. They had two sons and one daughter and divorced in 1980.