Sylvia Cecil
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Sylvia Cecil was an English singer and actress. She began her career in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, with whom she performed, off and on, from 1918 until 1937.
Cecil circa 1920
Cecil with Henry Lytton in The Yeomen of the Guard
Ruddigore
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Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse, originally called Ruddygore, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas and the tenth of
Sylvia Cecil
…in The Mikado, Elsie Maynard in The Yeomen of the Guard and Casilda in The Gondoliers. In 1920, she added to her repertory the role of Rose Maybud in Ruddigore, recreating the role when the opera was revived for the first time in Glasgow and then in London. Critics from The Observer praised Cecil for her…
Amédée Forestier's illustration of scenes in The Illustrated London News, before the opera's name change
Richard, Rose and Robin
Durward Lely as Dauntless
Henry Lytton as Sir Ruthven