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Philip Potter (born February 6, 1936) is a retired English singer and actor, best known for his performances in the tenor roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. ==Early life and career== Philip White Potter was born in Leicester. Potter's family moved to Wales, and young Philip learned to speak fluent Welsh as a boy, while his father worked on rocket technology during the war. He sang as a boy soprano in the church choir. Potter's family moved to Farnham, Surrey, where he played principal roles with the Farnham Amateur Operatic Society, including Strephon in ''Iolanthe'' (1955) and Barinkay in ''The Gypsy Baron'' (1956). He studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he won prizes as a tenor and graduated with a teaching degree. Potter taught school for a while, and then debuted in the 1958 production of ''Where's Charley?'' at the Palace Theatre. In 1959, he appeared in ''Marigold'', ''Flower Drum Song'', and ''Chu Chin Chow''. Potter joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1961, appearing as Earl Tolloller in ''Iolanthe'' and Colonel Fairfax in ''The Yeomen of the Guard''. Soon he took over the roles of Frederic in ''The Pirates of Penzance'', Prince Hilarion in ''Princess Ida'', Nanki-Poo in ''The Mikado'', and occasionally Marco and later, Luiz, in ''The Gondoliers''. When Thomas Round left the company in 1964, Potter also took over the role of the Defendant in ''Trial by Jury'', and, around the same time, the Duke of Dunstable in ''Patience''. He also sang Richard Dauntless in ''Ruddigore'', beginning when that opera was revived in 1967. While he was with D'Oyly Carte, he also appeared every two weeks on the Welsh television show, ''Land of Song''. In 1975, during the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's centennial season, Potter was invited to participate in the final performance of ''Trial by Jury'', in which the company's regular chorus was augmented by fourteen former stars of the company.〔''The Savoyard'', Vol. 14, No. 2, September 1975〕 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「Philip Potter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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