Lyndsie Holland

She began taking singing lessons and performed, at first, in some local musicals and with a Kingswinford-based male choir, the Gentlemen Songsters in Stourbridge.

Pinafore, Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance, Lady Jane in Patience, the Queen of the Fairies in Iolanthe, Lady Blanche in Princess Ida, Katisha in The Mikado, Dame Hannah in Ruddigore, Dame Carruthers in The Yeomen of the Guard, and the Duchess of Plaza-Toro in The Gondoliers.

[2][3] In 1975, she had the opportunity to re-create the roles of Lady Sophy in Utopia, Limited and the Baroness in The Grand Duke, which had not been performed professionally in Britain since the 1890s.

She appeared in the UK national tour of Evita in 1986–1987 and in Ivor Novello's Perchance to Dream at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich.

She continued to perform in Gilbert and Sullivan operas and gave concerts at, among other places, the Stourbridge Town Hall.