effective as Scarpia, and also as Simone Boccanegra in the English revival opposite Howell Glynne's Fiesco, and recorded excerpts of this work at the time. He was also a most effective Papageno, Rigoletto, Don Carlo, Iago, Germont père, Conte di Luna, Amonasro, Pizarro and Governor, Varlaam, Kecal, Peter, Figaro and Almaviva, Mephistopheles, Telramund, and the Dutchman. In 1949 he took the role of Eochaidh, the King, in the revival of Rutland Boughton's The Immortal Hour at the People's Palace. At Covent Garden on 26 April 1951 he created the role of the Pilgrim in Ralph Vaughan Williams's The Pilgrim's Progress, and in 1953 that of Cecil in Benjamin Britten's Gloriana. In October 1954 he created the role of Sir William Hamilton in Lennox Berkeley's opera Nelson at Sadler's Wells. Matters returned to Adelaide in 1957 where he produced operas for the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and taught at the Elder Conservatorium. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 1985 Australia Day Honours for "service to music, particularly as an opera singer and teacher". He died on 21 September 1990, a childless widower, in Adelaide. Sources G. Davidson, Opera Biographies (Werner Laurie, London 1954). H. Rosenthal and J Warrack, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (London 1974 printing). References 1901 births 1990 deaths Australian operatic baritones 20th-century Australian male opera singers Musicians from Adelaide Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia