the Learned Judge in Trial by Jury. Later in his career he played in the first performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Jack Point in The Yeomen of the Guard when Welsh National Opera included the work in their London season there in 1995. He played several roles in the Savoy operas with the revived D'Oyly Carte Opera Company beginning in 1988, and also in their Orpheus in the Underworld (1994) and La Vie parisienne (1995) by Jacques Offenbach. Of his 1998 performances in The Pirates of Penzance for D'Oyly Carte, The Guardian wrote, "Richard Suart, a natural successor to the great John Reed, patters astoundingly and is gleefully funny as Major-General Stanley." Suart has played Ko-Ko in The Mikado in revivals of Jonathan Miller's ENO production since 1989 and for many other companies, including twice with the New York City Opera (2001 and 2003). He is known for frequently rewriting the "little list" song from that opera. He published a book in 2008 excerpting many of his "little list" versions and discussing The Mikado, called They'd None of 'em Be Missed. Also for ENO, he played Major-General Stanley in Pirates in 2004. With Diva Opera, his Gilbert and Sullivan roles have included the Learned Judge in Trial by Jury and Cox in Cox and Box. In 1995, he played the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe at the Royal Festival Hall in a concert performance conducted by Roger Norrington. For Opera della Luna, he has performed the role of the Vicar in The Parson's Pirates (2002 and 2008), and he has also performed roles with The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, including King Gama in Princess Ida and the Duke of Plaza-Toro in The Gondoliers. He created an entertainment entitled As a Matter of Patter, consisting mostly of Gilbert and Sullivan songs and dialogue and his own anecdotes‚ which he has performed with his wife in the United Kingdom‚ South Africa and the Middle East. Suart has also appeared in three semi-staged productions at The Proms, in The Gondoliers (1997), Iolanthe (2000) and H.M.S. Pinafore (2005); all three performances were broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and the former two were recorded for later broadcast, in abridged form, on BBC television. In 2012, he appeared in Gilbert and Sullivan's last opera, The Grand Duke. Recordings