ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a biography of mid- to late-19th-century Victorian vocalist George Robinson. 'Mr Robinson' was for thirty years a pleasing alto-tenor vocalist on the concert platforms and around the city dinners and glee clubs of London. He played in the burletta Adelaide, or The Royal William, he sang in more glees in 1831, at Drury Lane playing a tiny part in The Brigand, singing part-music and being a Singing Witch in Macbeth, before heading back to Vauxhall to perform his 'interesting air' 'Pretty Jane' in his 'pleasing style'. Robinson returned to the Lane for another season, singing in concert, and playing Ben Budge in The Beggar's Opera, the Duke of Buckingham in The Heart of Midlothian, a guard in something else, a spirit of the mountain in Bishop's The Doom Kiss, a Savoyard in William Tell, and a robber in The Forty Thieves.
