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Redditch Heritage Alan Styler
Introduction
Alan Arthur Styler an English Opera Singer
Alan Arthur Styler was born 1 October 1925 to parents Arthur Styler and Madeleine A.
(nee Cook), in Redditch Worcestershire. He died 1 September 1970 in Manchester. He
was an English opera singer, member of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
He joined the Grenadier Guards at the age of seventeen and served during the Second
World War. Styler then joined D'Oyly Carte in 1947, where he spent his entire two-decade
career. Some of his key roles were the Counsel in Trial by Jury, Strephon in Iolanthe,
Pish-Tush in The Mikado, Giuseppe in The Gondoliers, Mr. Cox in Cox and Box, Grosvenor
in Patience and the Lieutenant of the Tower, in The Yeomen of the Guard. He recorded
most of these roles with the company. Styler was particularly popular with both audiences
and his fellow members of D'Oyly Carte and he married fellow D'Oyly Carte player Ann V.
Ryan (Vera Ryan) in 1960 in Manchester.
After a lung operation in 1968 he was advised not to perform again.
Styler (r) as Giuseppe in The Gondoliers with Leonard Osbom
Source: Image taken from Wikipedia
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