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John James Fryatt (7 July 1927 – 7 January 2011) was an English actor and opera singer best known for his performance in comic character roles. Fryatt began his career with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1952 in Gilbert and Sullivan roles, then Sadler's Wells Opera in 1959, becoming popular in tenor character roles in Offenbach operettas. His international opera career continued from the 1960s to the 1990s, becoming known in the roles of Don Basilio in ''The Marriage of Figaro'' and Sellem in ''The Rake's Progress'', among many others. He also played a role in the West End as Roscoe in the 1987 production of ''Follies''. ==Early life and career== Fryatt was born in York. From 1950, he studied privately with Frank Titterton and subsequently with Joseph Hislop. He was engaged by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in January 1952, playing Gilbert and Sullivan chorus roles. His first named role there, in 1953, was the small tenor part of the First Citizen in ''The Yeomen of the Guard''. The next year, he was also given the role of Francesco in ''The Gondoliers''. His first leading role was Prince Hilarion in ''Princess Ida'' in 1954, followed the next year by the Defendant in ''Trial by Jury'', and he was also given the role of Leonard Meryll in ''Yeomen''. That year, he also occasionally began to play the roles of Ralph Rackstraw in ''H.M.S. Pinafore'', Frederic in ''The Pirates of Penzance'', and Nanki-Poo in ''The Mikado''. In 1957, he was also given the larger role of Luiz in ''The Gondoliers'', while still playing some chorus parts. He also had occasion to play Earl Tolloller in ''Iolanthe'' and the Duke of Dunstable in ''Patience''. He left the D'Oyly Carte company in 1959.〔Stone, David. ("John Fryatt" ) at ''Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company'', 8 January 2011〕 Fryatt joined Sadler's Wells Opera in 1959, beginning in the chorus, and became associated with tenor character roles in Wendy Toye's productions of Offenbach operettas in the 1960s.〔Morey, Cynthia. ''Gilbert & Sullivan News'', Vol. 4, No.13, Spring 2011, p. 18〕 These included the Brazilian in ''La vie parisienne'', the title role in ''Orpheus in the Underworld'', Menelaus in ''La belle Hélène'' and King Bobêche in ''Bluebeard''. Other roles included Pedrillo in ''The Seraglio'', Guillot in ''Manon'', Spalanzani in ''The Tales of Hoffmann'', Monostatos in ''The Magic Flute'' and, in the British premiere of Janáček's ''The Makropulos Case'', Count Hauk-Sendorff.〔 He repeated some of his Offenbach roles at the London Coliseum when the Sadler's Wells company became English National Opera (ENO). In 1964 he created the role of Dr. Graham in Malcolm Williamson's opera ''English Eccentrics'', and was singled out by the reviewer Andrew Porter as "deserving special mention".〔Porter, Andrew. ("City of London Festival", ) ''The Musical Times,'' September 1964, pp. 666–69 〕 He also created the role of the mute Trim in ''The Mines of Sulphur'' in 1965, reprising it with Opera North in 1980. With The New Opera Company, he sang the roles of Mephisto and Jacob Glock in the 1965 British stage premiere of Prokofiev's ''The Fiery Angel''.〔 He occasionally revisited Gilbert and Sullivan, singing the roles of Cyril in ''Princess Ida'', Richard Dauntless in ''Ruddigore'', and Marco in ''The Gondoliers'', in 1966 for BBC radio, and appearing in the 1982 Brent Walker television productions of ''Cox and Box'' (as Mr. Box)〔Shepherd, Marc. ("The Brent Walker Cox & Box (1982)" ). The ''Gilbert and Sullivan Discography'', 7 November 2001, accessed 9 August 2010〕 and ''Patience'' (as Archibald Grosvenor).〔Shepherd, Marc. ("The Brent Walker Patience (1982)" ). The ''Gilbert and Sullivan Discography'', 5 April 2009, accessed 8 January 2011〕 He returned to Sadler's Wells in 1984 to play the Duke of Plaza-Toro in ''The Gondoliers''. In ''The Musical Times'' in 1984, the reviewer Andrew Lamb called Fryatt "a highly amusing North Country Duke of Plaza-Toro."〔Lamb, Andrew. ("Opera – G&S" ). ''The Musical Times'', September 1984, p. 516 . Lamb also praised another formerly D'Oyly Carte artist, "Donald Adams as a gout-ridden but formidable Grand Inquisitor".〕 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「John Fryatt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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