Thomas Lowe (tenor)

His career as a tenor is first known in August 1740, when he took part in the masque Alfred by Thomas Arne, at its first performance at Cliveden, country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales.

[1] He first appeared at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London in September 1740, as Sir John Loverule in The Devil to Pay by Charles Coffey.

[2] From 1742 to 1750 he was also in Handel's oratorio company, taking part in the original productions of Samson, Susanna, Joshua, Solomon (as Zadok) and Theodora (as Septimius).

[1] From 1748, after the return of the tenor John Beard to Drury Lane after several years' absence, Lowe left the theatre and moved to Covent Garden.

In 1760, when Beard moved to Covent Garden, Lowe returned to Drury Lane; appearing in works including John Stanley's The Tears and Triumphs of Parnassus in 1760, and Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (as Balthazar) and The Tempest (as Hymen).