Alan Styler

After service in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, Styler joined D'Oyly Carte in 1947, where he spent his entire two-decade career.

[4] Alan Styler studied singing as a teenager and joined the Grenadier Guards at the age of seventeen.

He joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company chorus in 1947 and soon was assigned his first role, Antonio in The Gondoliers.

A charming and infectiously enthusiastic man, with a cheerful word for everyone and a winning sense of humour, Styler was popular with both audiences and his fellow members of D'Oyly Carte.

[8] He married fellow D'Oyly Carte (and later Gilbert and Sullivan for All) player Veronica Cross (stage name Vera Ryan) in Manchester in 1960.

Of his first recording as Giuseppe, reviewer Raymond Walker wrote that he "has a voice of ... rounded tone, good diction, never sounds forced and generally captivates interest.