We have been notified of the passing of Christopher Keyte, a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, who made more than fifty solo recordings and appeared in leading roles at Covent Garden and elsewhere.
He was the father-in-law of the Canadian baritone Gerald Finley.
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