Sir Donald McIntyre, born in New Zealand in 1934, became an internationally admired bass-baritone in Wagner and dramatic repertory. He was especially associated with Wotan and other major Wagner roles.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Delius’s A Village Romeo and Juliet from Sadler’s Wells, alongside Elsie Morison, John Wakefield and Meredith Davies.

McIntyre’s singing is associated with authority, stamina and textual command, qualities that made him one of the important Wagner bass-baritones of his generation.

This early catalogue appearance gives the page a useful foothold. McIntyre’s later stature makes even a relatively small Pristine footprint worth marking properly.