sentences:  Coates was a successful London Don Jose in Bizet's "Carmen".He was with the Beecham Company for the spring, summer and winter seasons of 1910, in which the brilliant production of Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffman" owed its success mainly to him, and he also appeared in an exceptionally romantic interpretation of Pedro in Eugen d'Albert's "Tiefland".In 1911-13, he toured with the Quinlan Opera Company in provincial England, Australia and South Africa.