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Alan Styler Redditch Heritage
- 2000 Redditch Advertiser Archive - Wednesday 9th August 2000
50 years ago on August 12, 1950
When the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company opens a week's visit to the Theatre
Royal in Birmingham on August 28, the principal baritone parts in the evergreen
Gilbert and Sullivan operas will be sung and played by Alan Styler.
This young man, for he is but 25, from Redditch, has gone far since 1947 when
he was auditioned by the late Rupert D'Oyly Carte at the Savoy Theatre in
London.
Educated at St Luke's School in Headless Cross and then at the county high
school, Mr Styler was an electrician prior to joining the armed forces in 1943.
Serving with the Grenadier Guards, Mr Styler was one among the first troops to
land in Normandy on D-Day and saw service in France and Belgium as a gunner
in a Churchill tank.
He was demobilised in the early months of 1946 and commenced what is set to
be a hugely successful music career with singing studies under Miss Mavis
Bennett.
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