Ian Wallace
Ian Bryce Wallace OBE (10 July 1919 – 12 October 2009) was an English bass-baritone opera and concert singer, actor and broadcaster of Scottish extraction. His family intended him for a career in the law, but he was attracted to the stage. Originally an actor in non-musical plays, he was persuaded to try opera and made an immediate success. He played a range of buffo parts in operas, at Glyndebourne and internationally. Wallace maintained a simultaneous career in revue, straight theatre, and broadcasting. He appeared in pantomime and at the Royal Variety Performance. As a broadcaster, he was a long-time panellist on the BBC radio panel game My Music, and he presented a television series of introductions to operas in the 1960s, as well as appearing in light entertainment shows singing a range of songs from ballads to comedy numbers. He performed his one-man show for many years. Flanders and Swann wrote several songs for him, and their best-known novelty song, "The Hippopotamus", became indelibly associated with him.
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- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act II, It may not be
- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act II, He loves! If in the bygone years
- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act II, My Lord, a suppliant at your feet I kneel
- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act II, If we're weak enough to tarry
- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act II, If you go in you're sure to win
- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act II, When you're lying awake with a dismal headache
- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act II, Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest
- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act II, Though p'r'aps I may incur your blame
- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act II, Oh, foolish fay
- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act II, In vain to us you plead
- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act II, When Britain really ruled the waves
- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act II, Strephon's a Member of Parliament
- Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act II, When all night long a chap remains
- The Mikado, Act II: The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring (Nanki-Poo, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko)
- La Cenerentola: Nacqui all'affanno e al pianto.....Non più mesta (1992 Digital Remaster) - 1992 Remastered Version
- La Cenerentola (1992 Digital Remaster), ACT 1: Nel volto estatico di questo e quello (Alidoro/Magnifico/Cenerentola/Ramiro/Dandini)
- Le nozze di Figaro - Comic opera in four acts K492 (2000 Remastered Version): No.17 Recit: Hai già vinta la causa!...Aria: Vedrò, ment'io sospiro (Count)
- Le nozze di Figaro - Comic opera in four acts K492 (2000 Remastered Version): Signore, di fuori (Figaro/Count/Susanna/Countess)
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