In Mussorgsky's rarely staged opera The Marriage (1981), The Guardian noted, "It helped enormously that the central role of Podkolyosin was taken by a singer as skilled in comedy as Richard Suart, making him enough of a Wooster-like silly ass to be consistently funny without losing the essential Russian flavour." Suart's Viceroy in La Périchole (1981) was judged "a drolly Dickensian impersonation" by The Times. Rare excursions into early opera have been in Handel's Tamerlano in 1981 and Agrippina in 2007. Modern works For Opera North, Suart originated the role of Stan Stock in Benedict Mason's Playing Away, and for Music Theatre Wales, he created the role of King Arthur in Lynne Plowman's Gwyneth and the Green Knight. With Netherlands Opera, in Amsterdam and Munich, he sang in the world premieres of Param Vir's Snatched by the Gods and Broken Strings. The Guardian called his contribution to the latter "a towering piece of vocal acting". Suart sang in the UK premieres of Shostakovich's Moscow, Cheryomushki for Pimlico Opera (1995), and in the premieres of Mason's Chaplinoperas in New York (2005), Germany, Portugal, Holland and Austria. He has sung Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King in Gelsenkirchen's Musiktheater im Revier‚ Milan‚ Helsinki‚ Strasbourg‚ Stavanger and Paris. In 1987, The Musical Times described his performance in that work as "compelling from start to finish". In 2010, Suart received warm notices for his performance as Pangloss in Candide at the Hollywood Bowl. In 1999, Suart made his Salzburg Festival debut in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre. Other modern works in which Suart has appeared include Tippett's King Priam, Betty Roe's Gaslight, Harrison Birtwistle's Yan Tan Tethera and The Mask of Orpheus and Aribert Reimann's The Ghost Sonata, in which, The Musical Times wrote, "Richard Suart's Hummel was a remarkable tour de force", Alun Hoddinott's What the Old Man Does is Always Right and Philip Glass's Fall of the House of Usher, in which Suart was praised for his "fine central performance". In 2006, Suart created the role of Mr Walter in Michel van der Aa's After Life at the Holland Festival, and in 2009–2010, he sang the role in Europe and at the UK premiere at Barbican Hall. Gilbert and Sullivan Suart's association with the Savoy operas began early. At the Royal Academy of Music he took part in the opening performance at the Academy's new opera theatre in 1977, playing