Geoffrey Alan Blyth (27 July 1929 – 14 August 2007) was an English music critic, author, andmusicologist who was particularly known for his writings within the field of opera.^[1][2] He was a specialist on singers and singing.^[1] Born in London, Blyth's earliest musical experiences were atRugby School.^[1] He attended the music lectures of ProfessorJack Westrup.^[1] After graduation fromPembroke College, Oxford, where he read history, he returned to London and worked in journalism and publishing.^[1] He wrote reviews, interviews, and obituaries forThe Times and forGramophone.^[1] He was a long-time contributor to the British magazineOpera.^[3]

Blyth was married first to the German-born Ursula Zumloh, who died in 2000, and then to the Buddhist scholar Sue Hamilton. For the last two decades of his life, he lived inLavenham, Suffolk.^[1] He wrote a critical discography of Heddle Nash, a singer he much admired, together with Paul Campion, and with the help of Nash's son.^[1]

• Blyth, Alan.Colin Davis (Recordmasters/2).Ian Allan, London, 1972 (SBN 711001319 x)
• Blyth, Alan (3 May 2013)."Karl Böhm, interviewed by Alan Blyth (Gramophone, December 1972)".The Gramophone. Retrieved18 December 2023.
• Blyth, Alan, ed.Opera on Record. Hutchinson, London, Melbourne, 1979 (ISBN 0 09 139980 7) Blyth also contributed the chapters onDer Freischütz,Otello,Der Ring des Nibelungen,Manon,Eugene Onegin,Die Fledermaus andPeter Grimes.
• Blyth, Alan, ed. (1981).Remembering Britten. Hutchinson.ISBN 978-0-09-144950-6.^[4][5]
• Blyth, Alan, ed.Opera on Record 2. Hutchinson, London, Melbourne, 1983 (ISBN 0 09 153120 9) Blyth also contributed the chapters onSamson et Dalila andHänsel und Gretel.
• Blyth, Alan (23 October 1986).Song on Record: Volume 1, Lieder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0-521-26844-8.
• Blyth, Alan (1995).Opera on Video. Trafalgar Square Publishing.ISBN 978-1-85626-175-3.
• Blyth, Alan (1 November 2014)."An interview with Heinz Holliger".The Gramophone. Retrieved18 December 2023.

• C. Mackenzie. "Tribute: Alan Blyth",The Gramophone (2007), volume 85, issues 1024–1026, page 10.

• Cummings, D.M. (2000).International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory: (in the Classical and Light Classical Fields). International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory 2000/2001: In the Classical and Light Classical Fields. International Biographical Centre. p. 64.ISBN 978-0-948875-53-3. Retrieved18 December 2023.

• English musicologists
• 1929 births
• 2007 deaths
• English music critics
• People educated at Rugby School
• The Times people
• Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford
• 20th-century British musicologists

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