Frank Mullings filled the title roll in the stage performance of which opera based on a play by Shakespeare?
Frank Mullings Frank Mullings (10 March 1881 – 19 May 1953) was a leading English tenor with Sir Thomas Beecham's Beecham Opera Company and its successor, the British National Opera Company, during the 1910s and 1920s. Blessed with a strong stage presence and a voice that provoked varying reactions from critics, his repertoire included such taxing dramatic parts as Tristan in "Tristan und Isolde", Radames in "Aida", the title role in "Otello", and Canio in "Pagliacci." The limitations of early microphones meant that his voice was not always recorded successfully, although the British National Opera Company website notes that playing the recordings at 80 rpm produces a more reliable result.
Háry János Háry János is a Hungarian folk opera (that is, a spoken play with songs, in the manner of a "Singspiel") in four acts by Zoltán Kodály to a Hungarian libretto by Béla Paulini (1881–1945) and Zsolt Harsányi, based on the comic epic "The Veteran" ("Az obsitos") by János Garay. The first performance was at the Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest, 1926. The subtitle of the piece is "Háry János kalandozásai Nagyabonytul a Burgváráig" – "János Háry: his Adventures from Nagyabony (Great Abony) to the Vienna Burg". The UK stage premiere was at the Buxton Festival in 1982 conducted by Anthony Hose with Alan Opie in the title role.