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Donald Robert Shanks AO OBE (5 July 19408 April 2011) was an Australian bass-baritone singer who sang over 65 principal roles with Opera Australia and other companies in Australia and overseas. Moffatt Oxenbould said that he had "an immensely important place in the history of opera in this country".〔(Patricia Maunder, "Choirboy start for opera's high priest" ), ''Brisbane Times'', 14 May 2011; Retrieved 14 April 2013〕 ==Career== Donald Shanks was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and started singing in Methodist church choirs. He went to the prestigious Brisbane State High School. His first experience of a staged work was Gilbert and Sullivan’s ''The Mikado'', the opera with which he also chose to end his career in 2004. He joined the Elizabethan Theatre Trust Opera Company (as Opera Australia was then known) in 1964, aged 23. Over the years, he built a reputation as one of the most versatile figures in Australian opera, performing in all the major comic roles, from the title role in ''Don Pasquale'' and Bartolo in ''The Marriage of Figaro'', to ''The Italian Girl in Algiers'' to bel canto roles such as ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' and ''Norma'', to the key dramatic roles, particularly in Wagner heavyweights such as ''Tannhäuser'', ''Lohengrin'' and ''Tristan und Isolde''. He sang in ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', ''Il trovatore'' and ''Norma'' with Dame Joan Sutherland, ''La bohème'' with Luciano Pavarotti, and Banquo in ''Macbeth'' with Sherrill Milnes. Other roles he became associated with were Zaccharia in ''Nabucco'', Rocco in ''Fidelio'', Osmin in ''The Abduction from the Seraglio'', Pimen in ''Boris Godunov'', Timur in ''Turandot'', Ramphis in ''Aida'', Pistol in ''Falstaff'', Kekal in ''The Bartered Bride'', Baron Ochs in ''Der Rosenkavalier'', Nourabad in ''The Pearl Fishers'', the Commendatore in ''Don Giovanni'', and a major role in Leoš Janáček's ''The Cunning Little Vixen''. He also performed regularly with the Lyric Opera of Queensland and the Victoria State Opera, as well as opera companies overseas including the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, the Paris Opera 1976–77 and the Canadian Opera 1983–86. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donald Shanks (bass-baritone)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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