John Duruset (1793–1843) was a British

stage actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

and

singer Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define singi ...

. He is also known as Jack Duruset and John Durousset. Born in

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and showing a gift, he was apprenticed to the Italian

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and

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Domenico Corri Domenico Corri (4 October 1746 – 22 May 1825) was an Italian composer, impresario, music publisher, and voice teacher. Career Corri was born in Rome and studied voice with Nicola Porpora in Naples. The son of a confectioner in a religious h ...

. An early role came in

Theodore Hook Theodore Edward Hook (22 September 1788 – 24 August 1841) was an English Intellectual, man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in ...

's '' The Siege of St Quintin'' (1808) at

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.''The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, Volume 175''. Edward Cave, 1844. p.438 Following the Drury Lane Fire of 1809 he moved with the company to the Lyceum Theatre. From 1810 was a regular for many years at the

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. He acted in many comic operas and musicals, as well as straight

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and non-musical

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. He featured in the theatrical reviews of

William Hazlitt William Hazlitt (10 April 177818 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary criticism, literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history ...

. A portrait of him made by

Henry William Pickersgill Henry William Pickersgill Royal Academician, RA (3 December 1782 – 21 April 1875) was an English painter specialising in portraits. He was a Royal Academy, Royal Academician for almost fifty years, and painted many of the most notable figures ...

was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1811.

Selected roles

* Singer in '' The Siege of St Quintin'' by

(1808) * Cymon in '' Cymon'' by

David Garrick David Garrick (19 February 1716 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, Actor-manager, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of European theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil a ...

(1815) * Clifton in '' The Slave'' by Thomas Morton (1816) * Leander in ''

The Padlock ''The Padlock'' is a two-act ' afterpiece' opera by Charles Dibdin. The text was by Isaac Bickerstaffe. It debuted in 1768 at the Drury Lane Theatre in London as a companion piece to '' The Earl of Warwick''. It partnered other plays before a r ...

'' by

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(1821) * Agib in ''Law of Java'' by George Colman (1822) * Edward in '' Charles the Second'' by

John Howard Payne John Howard Payne (June 9, 1791 – April 10, 1852) was an American actor, poet, playwright, and writer who had nearly two decades of a theatrical career and success in London. He is today most remembered as the creator of " Home! Sweet Home ...

(1824) * Don Luis in '' Love's Victory'' by George Hyde (1825) * Henry Dunderford in '' Teddy the Tiler'' by George Rodwell (1830) * Bonnivet in '' Francis the First'' by

Fanny Kemble Frances Anne Kemble (later Butler; 27 November 180915 January 1893) was a British actress from a Kemble family, theatre family in the early and mid-nineteenth century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist whose published wor ...

(1832) * Count Berghen in '' The Minister and the Mercer'' by

Alfred Bunn Alfred Bunn (8 April 1796 in London20 December 1860 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) was an English theatrical manager. He married Margaret Somerville, a minor actress, in 1819. Biography Bunn was appointed stage manager of Drury Lane Theatre, London, in ...

(1834)

References

Bibliography

* Genest, John. ''Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, Volume 9''. H.E. Carrington, 1832. * Fuhrmann, Christina. ''Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses''. Cambridge University Press, 2015. * Schoch, Richard (ed.) ''Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving: Great Shakespeareans: Volume VI''. A&C Black, 2014.

External links

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