John Duruset
John Duruset (1793–1843) was a British stage actor and singer.[1][2] He is also known as Jack Duruset and John Durousset. Born in London and showing a gift, he was apprenticed to the Italian composer and music teacher Domenico Corri. An early role came in Theodore Hook's The Siege of St Quintin (1808) at Drury Lane.[3] Following the Drury Lane Fire of 1809 he moved with the company to the Lyceum Theatre. From 1810 was a regular for many years at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. He acted in many comic operas and musicals, as well as straight tragedies and non-musical comedies. He featured in the theatrical reviews of William Hazlitt. A portrait of him made by Henry William Pickersgill was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1811.
Selected roles
[edit]- Singer in The Siege of St Quintin by Theodore Hook (1808)
- Cymon in Cymon by David Garrick (1815)
- Clifton in The Slave by Thomas Morton (1816)
- Leander in The Padlock by Richard Cumberland (1821)
- Agib in Law of Java by George Colman (1822)
- Edward in Charles the Second by John Howard Payne (1824)
- Don Luis in Love's Victory by George Hyde (1825)
- Henry Dunderford in Teddy the Tiler by George Rodwell (1830)
- Bonnivet in Francis the First by Fanny Kemble (1832)
- Count Berghen in The Minister and the Mercer by Alfred Bunn (1834)
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Genest, John. Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, Volume 9. H.E. Carrington, 1832.
- Fuhrmann, Christina. Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Schoch, Richard (ed.) Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving: Great Shakespeareans: Volume VI. A&C Black, 2014.
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