[2] After working in Italy and Spain, he opened the Odoardo Barri School of Voice Culture in London in 1882,[3] and ran it until his death.
Several noted singers studied under Barri and some went on to teach, e.g. John Trew Gray, who taught in Toronto[4] and San Diego.
Barri's most notable composition was "The Old Brigade" with words by Frederic Weatherly; the copyright for the work was sold in 1899 for £357.
Odoardo Barri, who claimed to have been born in Como and that he had fought at Solferino, married Fanny Hayward on 21 October 1875 at the register office in St George Hanover Square, an event which the National Archives describes as “very unusual” for the time.
The witnesses to the London marriage were the bride’s mother and her husband, the disgraced lawyer Edwin James.