La serva padrona
Dryden recorded an album of arias and songs in 1987 (reviewed in "Das Orchester" during the same year) before making his operatic debut in a nationally televised production as Uberto in Pergolesi's "La serva padrona" in 1988. In 1991, Dryden married the historian Countess Florence de Peyronnet (born 1968). Their son, Werther Claude Dryden, was born in 1991.