Pauline Wales

Pauline Wales

Pauline Wales (b. 1938) is an English singer and actress best known for her performances in the mezzo-soprano roles of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

Life and career

Wales was born at Stockton-on-Tees, England to a musical family, and she showed an interest in singing early on. She joined the Stockton Stage Society, where she played the soubrette lead in musical theatre productions such as "The New Moon", "The Maid of the Mountains", "The Student Prince" and "The Vagabond King". [ [http://pinafore.www3.50megs.com/p-wales.html Profile of Wales at the "Memories of the D'Oyly Carte" website] ] Early in her career, Wales performed in oratorio and musical theatre in the north of England. She joined the chorus of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1959.

During her early years with the company, Wales performed the small roles of Isabel in "The Pirates of Penzance", Leila in "Iolanthe", and occasionally Cousin Hebe in "H.M.S. Pinafore", and Vittoria in "The Gondoliers". In 1961, when the company revived "Princess Ida", Wales added the larger role of Melissa to her repertoire. She also occasionally performed the role of Phoebe Meryll in "The Yeomen of the Guard". By 1963, she was singing Hebe in "Pinafore" and Vittoria in "The Gondoliers" full time and occasionally Lady Saphir in "Patience", Pitti-Sing in "The Mikado" and Tessa in "The Gondoliers". After Gillian Humphreys left the company in 1965, Wales also took over the roles of Kate in "Pirates", Saphir in "Patience", and Peep-Bo in "The Mikado", First Bridesmaid in "Trial by Jury", Ruth in "Ruddigore", and Tessa in "The Gondoliers". As understudy, she also had the opportunity to play the title role in "Iolanthe". She continued to perform most of these roles over the next decade.

Wales left the D'Oyly Carte organisation in 1974 but returned at the end of the year to play Melissa in "Princess Ida" as a guest artiste during the Gilbert and Sullivan centenary London season. More recently, Wales has sung with The Magic of D'Oyly Carte, a Gilbert and Sullivan concert group; with the Gilbert and Sullivan for All touring company; as Mad Margaret in "Ruddigore" for Kent Opera; and in various "Together Again" concerts at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival. She has taught singing in Radcliffe-on-Trent, England, and has also directed the Radcliffe Ladies Choir.

During her time with D'Oyly Carte, Wales was married twice, first to chorister John Maguire in 1961, and then to principal bass-baritone Thomas Lawlor in 1971, both of whom she divorced.

Recordings and broadcasts

With the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Wales recorded her roles of Leila in "Iolanthe" (1960), Kate in "Pirates" (1968), Hebe in "Pinafore" (1971 and 1973), and Peep-Bo in "The Mikado" (1973). She also is heard as Hebe and Pitti-Sing on "A Gilbert and Sullivan Spectacular" (1965) and as a soloists on the recording "Songs and Snatches" (1970). In 1965, Wales participated with other D'Oyly Carte artistes in a television production of "Patience", playing Lady Saphir. The following year, she appeared in the film of "The Mikado" as Peep-Bo, and in 1973, she played Cousin Hebe in a televised production of "H.M.S. Pinafore". [ [http://www.cris.com/~oakapple/gasdisc/artist/art_w.htm#wales_pauline List of Wales' recordings] ] She also participated in the live D'Oyly Carte broadcast of "Iolanthe" in 1961 as Leila. [ [http://www.cris.com/~oakapple/gasdisc/narradio-doc.htm Information about D'Oyly Carte broadcasts] ]

Notes

References

*cite book|last=Ayre|first=Leslie|year=1972|title=The Gilbert & Sullivan Companion|location=London|publisher=W.H. Allen & Co Ltd Introduction by Martyn Green.
* [http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/whowaswho/W/WalesPauline.htm Pauline Wales at the WhoWasWho in the D'Oyly Carte website]

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0907398/ Pauline Wales at the IMDB database]
* [http://www.trevormarshall.com/stars.htm 1998 photos of Wales]
* [http://www.cris.com/~oakapple/gasdisc/pin1973v.htm Information about the TV production of "H.M.S. Pinafore"]


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