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In August 1936 Elizabeth Nickell-Lean again played the title role in ''[[Iolanthe]]'', and during 1936-37, her last season with D'Oyly Carte, she joined the Company's 1936 tour of North America<ref name=IBDB>[https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/elizabeth-nickell-lean-54535 Roles of Elizabeth Nickell-Lean], [[Internet Broadway Database]]</ref><ref name=Playbill/><ref>[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1518/images/30807_A001118-00202?pId=12777189 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Elisabeth Nickell-Lean, Liverpool, England, 1937: Ancestry.com {{subscription}}]</ref> appearing as Kate in ''Pirates'', Lady Saphir in ''Patience'', the lead in ''Iolanthe'', Sacharissa in ''Princess Ida'', Peep-Bo in ''The Mikado'', and Vittoria in ''The Gondoliers''. She sang Peep-Bo on the D'Oyly Carte's 1936 recording of ''The Mikado''. Nickell-Lean left the [[D'Oyly Carte Opera Company]] in July 1937 but as Elizabeth Paynter she played Pitti-Sing in the 1939 film ''[[The Mikado (1939 film)|The Mikado]]''.<ref name=Stone/> |
In August 1936 Elizabeth Nickell-Lean again played the title role in ''[[Iolanthe]]'', and during 1936-37, her last season with D'Oyly Carte, she joined the Company's 1936 tour of North America<ref name=IBDB>[https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/elizabeth-nickell-lean-54535 Roles of Elizabeth Nickell-Lean], [[Internet Broadway Database]]</ref><ref name=Playbill/><ref>[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1518/images/30807_A001118-00202?pId=12777189 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Elisabeth Nickell-Lean, Liverpool, England, 1937: Ancestry.com {{subscription}}]</ref> appearing as Kate in ''Pirates'', Lady Saphir in ''Patience'', the lead in ''Iolanthe'', Sacharissa in ''Princess Ida'', Peep-Bo in ''The Mikado'', and Vittoria in ''The Gondoliers''. She sang Peep-Bo on the D'Oyly Carte's 1936 recording of ''The Mikado''. Nickell-Lean left the [[D'Oyly Carte Opera Company]] in July 1937 but as Elizabeth Paynter she played Pitti-Sing in the 1939 film ''[[The Mikado (1939 film)|The Mikado]]''.<ref name=Stone/> |
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She retired from the stage when in 1939 in London she married clinical pathologist Dr. Hugh Francis Brewer (1901–1982) of the Ministry of Health Emergency Hospital Service.<ref>[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8753/images/ons_m19393az-1500?pId=67456489 England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 for Elizabeth G Nickell-Lean, 1939: Ancestry.com {{subscription}}]</ref> Later that year the two were registered as living in [[Luton]] in [[Bedfordshire]] where Nickell-Lean's occupation was listed as 'Unpaid domestic duties'.<ref>[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61596/images/tna_r39_1983_1983a_009?pId=578965 1939 England and Wales Register for Elizabeth G Brewer, Bedfordshire, Luton MB: Ancestry.com {{subscription}}]</ref> |
She retired from the stage when in 1939 in London she married clinical pathologist Dr. Hugh Francis Brewer (1901–1982) of the Ministry of Health Emergency Hospital Service.<ref>[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8753/images/ons_m19393az-1500?pId=67456489 England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 for Elizabeth G Nickell-Lean, 1939: Ancestry.com {{subscription}}]</ref> Later that year the two were registered as living in [[Luton]] in [[Bedfordshire]] where Nickell-Lean's occupation was listed as 'Unpaid domestic duties'.<ref>[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61596/images/tna_r39_1983_1983a_009?pId=578965 1939 England and Wales Register for Elizabeth G Brewer, Bedfordshire, Luton MB: Ancestry.com {{subscription}}]</ref> |
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During the [[D'Oyly Carte Opera Company]]'s centenary celebrations in 1975 all 13 surviving operettas were performed either on stage or in concert versions. In the final performance of ''[[Trial by Jury]]'' the regular D'Oyly Carte chorus was augmented by fourteen former stars of the company: [[Sylvia Cecil]], [[Elsie Griffin]], [[Ivan Menzies]], [[John Dean (singer)|John Dean]], [[Radley Flynn]], Elizabeth Nickell-Lean, [[Ella Halman]], [[Leonard Osborn]], Cynthia Morey, [[Jeffrey Skitch]], Alan Barrett, Mary Sansom, [[Philip Potter]] and Gillian Humphreys.<ref>''The Savoyard'', Vol. 14, No. 2, September 1975</ref><ref>[https://www.gsarchive.net/whowaswho/index.htm Biographies of all of these performers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324031944/https://www.gsarchive.net/whowaswho/index.htm |date=24 March 2019 }} at the ''Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company'' website</ref> |
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In her later years Elizabeth Gertrude Brewer lived at 9 Barton Street in London, SW1. She died in January 1986 and left an estate valued at £462,519.<ref>[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1904/images/46452_B294473-00168?pId=21825816 England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Elizabeth Gertrude Brewer, 1986: Ancestry.com {{subscription}}]</ref> |
In her later years Elizabeth Gertrude Brewer lived at 9 Barton Street in London, SW1. She died in January 1986 and left an estate valued at £462,519.<ref>[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1904/images/46452_B294473-00168?pId=21825816 England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Elizabeth Gertrude Brewer, 1986: Ancestry.com {{subscription}}]</ref> |
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Elizabeth Gertrude Nickell-Lean (11 May 1908–20 January 1986) was a mezzo-soprano who during her career sang minor roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for six years during the 1930s and on ocassion singing the main soubrette roles including the title character in Iolanthe.[1]
She was born in Liverpool in 1908,[2] one of four children born to Philippa Marian née West (1878–1935) and Thomas Nickell-Lean (1869–1923). Her older sister Marion Marjorie Nickell Nickell-Lean (1903–1970) married Sir William Prince-Smith O.B.E. M.C. (1898–1964) 3rd baronet of the Prince-Smith baronets of Hillbrook. She made her first stage appearance in 1915 aged seven in a charity performance in her native Liverpool following which it is claimed she was offered a contract by the Liverpool Repertory Theatre which was rejected by her parents. She went on to study singing and German lieder in Manchester and London and made a number of appearances on the concert platform across the provinces before joining the chorus of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company aged 23 in November 1931. Soon she was playing minor named roles including Isabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Peep-Bo in The Mikado, Ruth in Ruddigore, and Giulia in The Gondoliers. By August 1932 she was playing Vittoria in The Gondoliers and during the 1932-34 seasons she regularly sang Isabel, Peep-Bo, Ruth, and Vittoria.[3] During the temporary absence of Marjorie Eyre Nickell-Lean stepped in to play the leading soubrette roles of Iolanthe in Iolanthe, Melissa in Princess Ida, Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, Mad Margaret in Ruddigore and Phoebe Meryll in The Yeomen of the Guard.[1]
In August 1934 Nickell-Lean was promoted to her first major role: the title character in Iolanthe, and for a period sang Ada in Princess Ida while continuing to play various minor roles. She appeared in these roles in the 1934 North America tour.[4][5] During the 1935-36 season she relinquished Iolanthe to Marjorie Eyre and assumed the small role of Leila in that operetta, adding Lady Saphir in Patience, Kate in Pirates and Sacharissa in Princess Ida to her repertoire. Meanwhile, she continued to play Peep-Bo in The Mikado, Ruth in Ruddigore and Vittoria in The Gondoliers while continuing to fill in as required in the principal mezzo-soprano roles.[1]
In August 1936 Elizabeth Nickell-Lean again played the title role in Iolanthe, and during 1936-37, her last season with D'Oyly Carte, she joined the Company's 1936 tour of North America[4][5][6] appearing as Kate in Pirates, Lady Saphir in Patience, the lead in Iolanthe, Sacharissa in Princess Ida, Peep-Bo in The Mikado, and Vittoria in The Gondoliers. She sang Peep-Bo on the D'Oyly Carte's 1936 recording of The Mikado. Nickell-Lean left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in July 1937 but as Elizabeth Paynter she played Pitti-Sing in the 1939 film The Mikado.[1]
She retired from the stage when in 1939 in London she married clinical pathologist Dr. Hugh Francis Brewer (1901–1982) of the Ministry of Health Emergency Hospital Service.[7] Later that year the two were registered as living in Luton in Bedfordshire where Nickell-Lean's occupation was listed as 'Unpaid domestic duties'.[8]
During the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's centenary celebrations in 1975 all 13 surviving operettas were performed either on stage or in concert versions. In the final performance of Trial by Jury the regular D'Oyly Carte chorus was augmented by fourteen former stars of the company: Sylvia Cecil, Elsie Griffin, Ivan Menzies, John Dean, Radley Flynn, Elizabeth Nickell-Lean, Ella Halman, Leonard Osborn, Cynthia Morey, Jeffrey Skitch, Alan Barrett, Mary Sansom, Philip Potter and Gillian Humphreys.[9][10]
In her later years Elizabeth Gertrude Brewer lived at 9 Barton Street in London, SW1. She died in January 1986 and left an estate valued at £462,519.[11]
References
- ^ a b c d Stone, David Elizabeth Nickell-Lean, Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
- ^ Elizabeth Gertrude Nickell-Lean in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915: Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ Roles of Elizabeth Nickell-Lean, Opera Scotland:Listings & Performance History
- ^ a b Roles of Elizabeth Nickell-Lean, Internet Broadway Database
- ^ a b Performances by Elizabeth Nickell-Lean, Playbill database
- ^ UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Elisabeth Nickell-Lean, Liverpool, England, 1937: Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 for Elizabeth G Nickell-Lean, 1939: Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ 1939 England and Wales Register for Elizabeth G Brewer, Bedfordshire, Luton MB: Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ The Savoyard, Vol. 14, No. 2, September 1975
- ^ Biographies of all of these performers Archived 24 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine at the Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company website
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Elizabeth Gertrude Brewer, 1986: Ancestry.com (subscription required)