Wright was born in Leicester, England, but grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, where she attended Bearsden Academy and studied music from the age of eight.
She and her family moved back to the English Midlands, where she won prizes at musical festivals and sang in choirs directed by Sir Malcolm Sargent and Ernest Nash.
Soon thereafter, she began to play the small roles of Leila in Iolanthe and Peep-Bo in The Mikado, and filled in occasionally as Edith in The Pirates of Penzance and Lady Saphir in Patience.
Pinafore, Edith in Pirates, Phoebe Meryll in The Yeomen of the Guard, and Tessa in The Gondoliers.
She later appeared on BBC television and produced Gilbert and Sullivan works throughout England for amateur companies.