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Born Dundee.

Scottish tenor.

Lyon Mackie joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as a principal in 1916, singing Sullivan parts including Colonel Fairfax. By 1920 he was a principal with O'Mara, where his roles included Mozart (Belmonte); Benedict (Hardress Cregan); Balfe (Wilmot Puritan's Daughter); Verdi (Duke of Mantua); Gounod (Romeo) and Mascagni (Turiddu).

Roles in Scotland

Colonel Fairfax under sentence of death: Yeomen of the Guard 1916
Hardress Cregan secretly married to Eily: Lily of Killarney 1920
Turiddu a young soldier: Cavalleria Rusticana 1920
Roméo a Montague: Romeo and Juliet 1920
Duke of Mantua: Rigoletto 1920
John Wilmot Earl of Rochester: Puritan's Daughter 1920
Belmonte a Spanish aristocrat: Entführung aus dem Serail 1920
Entführung aus dem Serail 1921