Ivan Menzies

J. Ivan "Jimmy" Menzies (1896 – 19 Afrilu 1985) mawaki ne kuma ɗan wasan kwaikwayo na Ingila, wanda aka fi sani da rawar da ya taka a cikin ayyukan barkwanci na Savoy Operas tare da Kamfanin D'Oyly Carte Opera a Burtaniya a shekarun 1920 da kuma Kamfanin JC Williamson Gilbert &amp; Sullivan Opera a Ostiraliya a shekarun 1930 da 1940.

Menzies ya auri wata babbar 'yar wasan waka ta D'Oyly Carte, Elsie Griffin, amma ya bar ta akai-akai don yin rangadin yawon buɗe ido a Ostiraliya da New Zealand. Daga baya, Menzies ya zama shugaban ƙungiyar sake gina makami a Ostiraliya da Birtaniya, kuma ya ci gaba da yin wasa a kan dandamali har zuwa 1962.

 Rayuwa da aiki 
An haifi Ivan Menzies a Bristol, Ingila, ɗan likitan gundumar Lake . Ya yi aiki a Yammacin Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya kafin ya karya hannunsa na dama da cinyarsa a Yaƙin Somme a ranar 8 ga Agusta, 1916.  Ya yi aiki a Rundunar Sarauta ta Sarki . A shekarar 2014 an gano wata wasiƙar soyayya da aka aika masa, a Ranar Masoya a 1916, yayin da ake shirye-shiryen Yaƙin Somme . Wanda ya aiko da wasiƙar ita ce wata mace 'yar Faransa mai suna Eleonore Aneelle, 'yar mai gidan cafe daga ƙauyen Somme na Berteaucourt-les-Dames . Bayan raunin da ya samu, Menzies ya yi wasa a cikin liyafar kade-kade na sauran lokacin yaƙin. 

 Farkon aiki 
Menzies ya shiga kamfanin D'Oyly Carte Opera Company a matsayin mawaƙa a 1921, nan da nan yana taka karamin matsayi na Gilbert da Sullivan a kamfanin yawon shakatawa na biyu na kamfanin, gami da Associate in Trial by Jury, First Citizen in The Yeomen of the Guard da Antonio a cikin The Gondoliers kuma wani lokacin yana shiga babban kamfanin ƙungiyar. A cikin 1923, Menzies ya kara rawar da Manjo Murgatroyd ya taka a cikin Patience zuwa ga abubuwan da ya yi a kai a kai. A wannan shekarar, a kan zanga-zangar iyalinta, Menzies ta auri D'Oyly Carte soprano star Elsie Griffin . Suna da 'yar daya, Mahala.

A lokacin waɗannan lokutan farko, Menzies ya yi nazarin Henry Lytton, Leo Sheffield da sauran manyan 'yan wasan kwaikwayo na kamfanin kuma ya bayyana a wasu lokuta a cikin manyan rawar wasan kwaikwayo na Alkalin da aka koya a Trial, Manjo Janar Stanley a cikin Pirates of Penzance, Lord Chancellor a Iolanthe, Jack Point a Yeomen, da Duke na Plaza-Toro a cikin The Gondoliers .  Menzies ya ba da labarin cewa "Lokacin farko da na buga Duke na Plaza-Toro, na fara ne ta hanyar kama ƙugiya da kuma fada cikin tashar. "

 Shekaru na baya 
Daga baya, Menzies da Griffin (waɗanda ba su sake aure ba) sun bayyana a cikin Moral Re-Armament music, The Vanishing Island, inda suka zagaya duniya daga 1955 har zuwa 1957. A shekara ta 1962, aikin waka na Griffin ya ƙare ta hanyar aikin makogwaro; Menzies ya kamu da ciwon zuciya a wannan shekarar. Sun shafe mafi yawan sauran shekarun da suka rage suna zaune a hankali a unguwar London ta Barnes, kodayake sun ci gaba da shiga cikin ayyukan Moral Re-Armament. A shekara ta 1975, a lokacin bikin cika shekaru dari na Kamfanin D'Oyly Carte Opera, an gayyaci Menzies don shiga cikin wasan karshe na Trial by Jury, inda tsoffin taurari goma sha huɗu na kamfanin suka kara wa ƙungiyar mawaƙa ta yau da kullun.

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 1985
Rukuni:Haihuwan 1896