Philip Ritte

He made his stage debut in London's West End singing in Gilbert and Sullivan and other comic operas and musicals.

Ritte made his singing debut as a chorister with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy Theatre from June 1899 to November 1901, beginning with H.M.S.

[1] In 1907 he joined "Randall Jackson's Concert Party" at the Oval in Margate in which he had Hugh E. Wright, Carrie Tubb and Fred Wildon as fellow artists, and it was this association which gained him his eventual popularity.

[7] For several summers Ritte ran his own companies in the Worthing, Westgate and Swanage areas of the south coast of England.

He has appeared before enthusiastic audiences in all the principal London concert halls and is well known in oratorio in the largest provincial centres.In 1909 Ritte recorded fewer than ten songs for the Gramophone Company's Zonophone label.