Durward Lely
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Durward Lely
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Durward Lely was a Scottish opera singer and actor. Although he had an extensive opera, concert and acting career, he is primarily remembered as the creator of five tenor roles in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, including Nanki-Poo in The Mikado, for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Lely studied singing in Italy in the early 1870s and beginning his career there. He returned to tour in concerts and made his British opera debut in 1879, at Her Majesty's Theatre, in what would become one of his
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Scottish opera singer and actor (1852–1944)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durward_Lely
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2023-07-16T18:01:37Z
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