John Rawnsley
John Rawnsley (born 14 December 1950) is an English actor and opera singer. He is a baritone and has sung in the San Diego Opera. He sang the title role of Figaro in the 1981 film adaptation of Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and also the title role of Verdi's Rigoletto in Jonathan Miller's famous 'Mafia' production at the English National Opera. Opera critics have offered positive reviews of his performances in Verdi's "Rigoletto". Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times has praised Rawnsley's performance in Rigoletto as "affecting".
He appeared as Nigel in the 2012 film Quartet.
Rawnsley married actress and singer Nuala Willis in 1979.
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Rigoletto, Act I: Prelude - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 1: That pretty girl I've been seeing in the city (Duke, Borsa) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 1: If a woman should happen to catch my eye (Duke) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 1: You're going? That's cruel (Duke, Countess, Rigoletto, Chorus) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 1: It's happened! It's happened! (Marullo, Duke, Rigoletto, Ceprano, Borsa, Courtiers, Chorus) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 1: I demand to see him (Monterone, Duke, Rigoletto, Borsa, Marullo, Ceprano, Courtiers) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 2: The old man laid his curse on me! (Rigoletto, Sparafucile) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 2: We are equals (Rigoletto) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 2: Gilda! (Rigoletto, Gilda) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 2: Ah, do not demand of one so sad (Rigoletto, Gilda, Giovanna) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 2: Oh, dear Giovanna, guard my daughter (Rigoletto, Gilda, Giovanna, Duke) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 2: Giovanna, I should have told him (Gilda, Giovanna, Duke) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 2: Love is the source of life, love is our sunlight (Duke, Gilda, Ceprano, Borsa, Giovanna) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 2: Gualtier Maldè, you were the first to love me… (Gilda, Borsa, Ceprano, Marullo, Chorus) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 2: I have returned. But why? (Rigoletto, Borsa, Ceprano, Marullo) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act I Scene 2: Softly, softly we move in to get her (Gilda, Rigoletto, Chorus) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act II: Somebody came and stole her but when? (Duke) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act II: Somewhere I see you weeping (Duke) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act II: We went to look for her last night together (Duke, All) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act II: The power of love is calling (Duke, All) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act II: Poor little Rigoletto… (Marullo, Rigoletto, Ceprano, Secretary, Borsa, Chorus) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act II: Filthy rabble, you liars, you cowards (Rigoletto) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act II: My father! (Gilda, Rigoletto) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act II: Speak now. They've left us (Rigoletto, Gilda) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act II: I've one thing to do here before I am finished (Rigoletto, Gilda, Henchman, Monterone) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act II: Old man, you're mistaken (Rigoletto, Gilda) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act III: You love him? (Rigoletto, Gilda, Duke, Sparafucile) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act III: Women abandon us (Duke, Sparafucile, Rigoletto) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act III: When first I came to talk to you (Duke, Gilda, Maddalena, Rigoletto) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act III: If you want a faithful lover (Duke, Maddalena, Gilda, Rigoletto) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act III: Eighty dollars you were asking (Rigoletto, Sparafucile, Duke, Maddalena) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act III: He's such a young man, handsome and friendly (Maddalena, Duke, Sparafucile) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act III: I cannot think clearly (Gilda, Maddalena, Sparafucile) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act III: Now for my vengeance, now the moment is ready (Rigoletto, Sparafucile) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act III: He's there, murdered, oh yes (Rigoletto, Duke) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act III: But who can be inside here? (Rigoletto, Gilda) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act III: It's all my fault (Gilda, Rigoletto) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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Rigoletto, Act III: Ah, soon, in Heaven (Gilda, Rigoletto) - Verdi: Rigoletto -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Prologue: "If Poverty Be a Title To Poetry" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Prologue: Overture - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Through All the Employments Of Life" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Women Are Bitter Bad Judges In These Cases...If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "A Maid Is Like The Golden Ore" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "I Know As Well As Any Of the Fine Ladies...Virgins Are Like the Fair Flower In Its Lustre" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Our Polly Is a Sad Slut" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Can Love Be Controll'd By Advice" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "The Girl Shows Such a Readiness...O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "I, Like a Ship In Storms, Was Tossed" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "O Ponder Well, Be Not Severe...The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Now I Am a Wretch Indeed...Pretty Polly Say" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "My Heart Was So Free" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "Were I Laid On Greenland's Coast" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "O! What Pain It Is To Part!" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 1: "And Now Our Scene Changes...Fill Ev'ry Glass" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Success Attend You...Let Us Take the Road" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "If the Heart Of a Man Is Depressed With Cares" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome...Youth's the Season Made For Joys" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "It Is Your Own Choice...Before the Barn Door Crowing" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "But To Be Sure...The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike...At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Noble Captain, You Are Welcome Once More...Man May Escape From Rope and Gun" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "It Is the Pleasure Of All You Fine Men...How Cruel Are the Traitors" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "The First Time At the Looking-Glass" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Fortune Be With You, Lucy" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Such Language, Brother! ...When You Censure the Age" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir?" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "O Macheath! I Will Stay With Thee Till Death...Thus When the Swallow" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Shall I Not Claim My Own?...How Happy Could I Be With Either" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself!...Cease Your Funning" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "Why How Now, Madam Flirt?" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 2: "No Pow'r On Earth Can E'er Divide" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "But All Scores Have a Reckoning" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education...When Young At the Bar" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Ungrateful Macheath!" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Thus Gamesters United In Friendship" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "And Macheath, At Liberty and At Large...The Modes Of the Court" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "And Those Two Good Old Friends" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Bring Us Then More Liquor!...What Gudgeons Are We Men" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "In the Days Of My Youth" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear...I'm Like a Skiff On the Ocean Tossed" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "A Curse Attends a Woman's Love" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "But Perhaps He Hath a Heart Not Capable Of It...Among the Men Coquets We Find" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "Come, Sweet Lass, Let's Banish Sorrow" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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The Beggar's Opera - Realised Britten, Op. 43 / Act 3: "What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again In Custody!...Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes" - Gay-Britten: The Beggar's Opera -
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