BBC Radio 4's obituary programme Last Word, providing reminiscences of their My Music colleague Steve Race, who died earlier that week. Wallace died at the age of 90 in Highgate in North London, survived by his wife Patricia, daughter Rosemary and son John. Recordings Wallace recorded the role of Doctor Bartolo in both The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville, with Glyndebourne Festival Opera forces, conducted by Vittorio Gui. His other Glyndebourne recordings included Ser Matteo del Sarto in Busoni's Arlecchino, conducted by John Pritchard, Don Magnifico in Rossini's La Cenerentola, and the Governor in Rossini's Le comte Ory, both conducted by Gui. His other operatic recordings included Altomaro in Handel's Sosarme, and Lockit in The Beggar's Opera, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. Wallace made several recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan roles. For Sargent's EMI series he recorded Pooh-Bah in The Mikado (1957) and Mountararat in Iolanthe (1959). He recorded excerpts from H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado and The Gondoliers for an LP issued as "A Gilbert and Sullivan Spectacular", in 1974. He made two further recordings of the role of Pooh-Bah, for BBC Radio in 1966 and BBC television in 1973, but these recordings have never been released commercially. With Donald Swann he recorded Swann's settings of John Betjeman poems in 1964. He took part in two recordings of Alice in Wonderland, in 1958 as the Mock Turtle, and in 1966 as the Caterpillar, in a set narrated by Dirk Bogarde. Discs of his programmes of varied music included An Evening's Entertainment with Ian Wallace, recorded live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1971, and From Mud to Mandalay in 1977. References External links The Times: Obituary An interview with Ian Wallace, recorded in 1991 – a British Library sound recording 1919 births 2009 deaths English comedy musicians English bass-baritones Operatic bass-baritones English radio personalities English people of Scottish descent Classical music radio presenters People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Officers of the Order of the British Empire British Army personnel of World War II 20th-century British male opera singers British novelty song performers 20th-century British comedians Royal Artillery soldiers Presidents of the Independent Society of Musicians