Thomas Lawlor (bass-baritone)

He soon was called upon to understudy and occasionally performed the small roles of Guron in Princess Ida and the Second Yeoman in The Yeomen of the Guard.

[2] During the company's tour of the US in 1964–65, Lawlor sang at the Carnegie Hall in New York, as a guest artist in a gala concert of Irish music.

"[7] The next year, the same paper called his Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail "imposing ... a figure of menace as well as of fun, with the voice to go with both sides of the character".

[8] Among his roles in the British Isles were: He also sang with such companies as Dublin Grand Opera Society[26] and Netherlands Opera, at the music festivals of Hintlesham, Camden, Singapore, Valencia (Spain), Colorado and Michigan,[2] and in concerts and recitals in major concert halls, especially in Britain, Ireland and the US.

[28] He was a member of the music faculty of Brown University[3] and Rhode Island College, where he taught voice and directed in the Opera Workshop.

[3] He then founded and served as artistic director for Beavertail Productions, a company that specialised in educational operatic programming for adults and children.

[2][30] He was an avid hiker and "a keen amateur geologist", recording BBC television programmes about his favorite walks, and the geology and history of West Yorkshire.

[34] His other recordings include parts in The Rake's Progress by Stravinskly, Marie-Magdeleine by Massenet, La riconoscenza by Rossini, Cendrillon by Pauline Viardot and Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement, a comic opera by Lord Berners.

[35] He also appeared in television movies of The Marriage of Figaro as Antonio (1973), an abridged version of Rigoletto (1974) in English,[36] and The Rake's Progress as The Keeper of the Madhouse (1975).