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Profile of Dennis Olsen
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Dennis Olsen |
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28th February 1938 |
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
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Dennis Olsen (born February 28, 1938 in Adelaide, South Australia), is an accomplished pianist, actor, director and is Australia's leading exponent of Gilbert and Sullivan operas. He attended the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.
Dennis Olsen spent a year at the esteemed D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in England, where he was very successful in the comic roles of Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy Operas "The Mikado" (as "The Lord High Executioner"), "Patience" (as "Bunthorne"), "H.M.S. Pinafore (as "Sir Joseph Porter, KCB"), "Iolanthe" (as the "Lord Chancellor"), "Ruddigore" (as "Robin Oakapple"), "Trial by Jury" (as "The Learned Judge"), "The Yeomen of the Guard" (as "Jack Point") and "The Gondoliers" (as both "The Duke of Plaza-Toro" and "Don Alhambra").
Dennis Olsen directed, as well as starred in, "H.M.S. Pinafore" (as "Sir Joseph Porter, K.G.B.), with Thomas Edmonds (as Ralph Rackstraw) and Judith Henley (as Josephine).
Dennis Olsen sang the role of the "Lord Chancellor" in the production of "Iolanthe" which opened the Lyric Theatre at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, situated at South Bank in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1984.
Dennis Olsen also appeared as George Grossmith (the original Gilbert and Sullivan comic lead), in a very successful one-man Musical theatre show called A Song to Sing O!, in the Cremorne Theatre at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre. Another Gilbert and Sullivan stage production, in Melbourne, Victoria, in which Dennis Olsen appeared, was based on a family gathering, singing Gilbert and Sullivan songs to entertain the party.
Dennis Olsen is also an excellent exponent of Noel Coward, and appeared in a one-man combined Noel Coward Gilbert and Sullivan show, as well as a Noel Coward production, "Marvellous Party" with Amanda Muggleton in the Cremorne Theatre at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
Dennis Olsen recorded "Gilbert and Sullivan Highlights" with Australian tenor Thomas Edmonds, and also recorded "Together with Music" with Australian soprano June Bronhill
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