Harry Dearth (1883-1933) was an English baritone, active in song, light opera and early recording. His voice was familiar to listeners in the acoustic and early electrical recording eras.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Gilbert and Sullivan and in early Sullivan-related phonograph recordings, preserving a strand of British vocal performance from the early twentieth century.

Dearth’s singing belonged to a world where parlour song, comic opera and the gramophone overlapped. Clear words and personable delivery mattered as much as grandeur.

His page is justified by repeated catalogue appearances and by the historical charm of the recordings. Dearth carries a period baritone smile through the horn.