John Ayldon
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John Ayldon was an English opera singer and comic actor, best known for his performances in bass-baritone roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
Ayldon performed at a Jubilee Year Royal Command Performance at Windsor Castle in 1977
Geoffrey Shovelton
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Geoffrey Richard Shovelton was an English singer, actor and illustrator best known for his performances in leading tenor roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the 1970s.
John Ayldon
…California, playing Pooh-Bah in The Mikado, and also with "The Magic of D'Oyly Carte". Ayldon toured North America frequently with Kenneth Sandford, Geoffrey Shovelton, Lorraine Daniels, and others in the 1990s with a concert programme of G&S favourites called "The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan" or "G&S à la Carte", often…
Shovelton (right) as Tolloller in Iolanthe, with John Reed as the Lord Chancellor