STYLER, ALAN

Alan Styler was born in Redditch in Worcestershire. A keen semi-professional baritone in his youth, he was a Grenadier Guard at seventeen and served in the British Army during the Second World War. In 1947 he joined the D’Oyly Carte where, until his retirement in 1968, he sang a variety of principal rôles, including Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore, Samuel in Piratesthe Lieutenant in Yeomen and Giuseppe in The Gondoliers.

Peter Dempsey

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GILBERT AND SULLIVAN (The Best of)	8.111311-12
SULLIVAN: Gondoliers (The) (D'Oyly Carte) (1950)	8.110209-10
SULLIVAN: Iolanthe (D'Oyly Carte) (1951)	8.110231-32
SULLIVAN: Mikado (The) (D'Oyly Carte) (1950)	8.110176-77
SULLIVAN: Patience (D'Oyly Carte) (1951)	8.110233