"interpretation ... can only be described as magnificent") and then Bouncer, Counsel, Bobstay, Pish-Tush, the Lieutenant, and Giuseppe in The Gondoliers for the remainder of the season. His total of 35 Savoy Opera roles while a member of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is the company's all-time record. Australia and touring After his last season with D'Oyly Carte, Walker and Roberts were engaged by the J. C. Williamson Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, and toured Australia and New Zealand throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. When the Williamsons played Gilbert and Sullivan, as they did for extended tours every five or six years, Walker sang his familiar roles, as well as Dick Deadeye in Pinafore and Sergeant Meryll in Yeomen, and he directed the operas. Walker and Roberts also performed in musical comedies in Australia under other management. From 1959, they toured for more than four years in the original Australian production of My Fair Lady, Walker as Alfred P. Doolittle and Roberts as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill. They then settled in Sydney. Walker later appeared in the Williamson production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. In 1967, he joined the Elizabethan Theatre Company, playing Frosch in Die Fledermaus. Walker also presented Gilbert and Sullivan with Roberts in two-person entertainments throughout the United States and Canada beginning in the 1950s. President Eisenhower asked them to give their concert programme at his pre-inauguration party at the White House following his re-election in 1956, but they were unable to attend, as they were then in Australia. Walker was the Honorary President of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of New York from 1951 until his death. Walker died in Sydney, Australia, at the age of 91. His widow later returned to England, where she died in 2010. Recordings Walker's recordings with D'Oyly Carte were Antonio in The Gondoliers (1927), and Boatswain in H.M.S. Pinafore (1949). Reviewing the former, The Gramophone commented, "Richard Walker has the best chance of the soloists, and takes full advantage of it." Notes See also J. C. Williamson References Walker, Richard (1980). Memoir: A Man of Many Parts, serialized in The Palace Peeper, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of New York, beginning December 1980. External links Photo of Walker in Iolanthe Richard Walker at Memories of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Description of J. C. Williamson Opera Company Information about D'Oyly Carte members who performed with