Ian Wallace

Ian Bryce Wallace OBE (10 July 1919 – 12 October 2009) was an English bass-baritone opera and concert singer, actor and broadcaster of Scottish extraction. His family intended him for a career in the law, but he was attracted to the stage. Originally an actor in non-musical plays, he was persuaded to try opera and made an immediate success. He played a range of buffo parts in operas, at Glyndebourne and internationally. Wallace maintained a simultaneous career in revue, straight theatre, and broadcasting. He appeared in pantomime and at the Royal Variety Performance. As a broadcaster, he was a long-time panellist on the BBC radio panel game My Music, and he presented a television series of introductions to operas in the 1960s, as well as appearing in light entertainment shows singing a range of songs from ballads to comedy numbers. He performed his one-man show for many years. Flanders and Swann wrote several songs for him, and their best-known novelty song, "The Hippopotamus", became indelibly associated with him.

Words & Sounds Vol 1.5 - 2024-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Harder (with Busta Rhymes) - 2022-04-29T00:00:00.000000Z

Spring Songs - 2021-11-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Oliver (From Oliver Musical) - 2021-06-30T00:00:00.000000Z

This Is Mozart - 2021-05-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Hits of Mozart - 2021-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z

#nowplaying Mozart - 2021-05-01T00:00:00.000000Z

The Mozart Effect - 2021-04-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Mozart Classical Masterpieces - 2021-02-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Mozart at the Office - 2021-01-25T00:00:00.000000Z

A Day with Mozart - 2021-01-16T00:00:00.000000Z

High Off This (Remixes) - 2020-08-20T00:00:00.000000Z

Levels - 2018-10-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Scotland the Brave Collection - 2016-06-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Songs From Oliver (From "Songs From Oliver") [Original Musical Soundtrack] - 2015-12-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Busoni: Arlecchino oder Die Fenster, Op. 50, BV 270 (Live 1954) - 2015-07-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Rossini: Le Comte Ory - 2014-08-01T00:00:00.000000Z

My Music - 2013-01-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Brothers Grimm’s Fairy Tales in Operas: La Cenerentola - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

The Very Best of English Song - 2012-03-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Busoni: Doktor Faust - 2011-09-01T00:00:00.000000Z

King Crimson Songbook, Vol. 2 - 2009-04-07T00:00:00.000000Z

The Very Best of Glyndebourne on Record - 2009-03-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Essential Hymns & Anthems - 2008-11-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Happiness With Minimal Side Effects - 2003-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z