THE D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY

Richard Kessell (1941-44)

[Born c.1898]

Richard Kessell was a baritone chorister with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from October 1941 to July 1944. His only named part with the Company was Second Yeoman, played in a single matinee performance of The Yeomen of the Guard in June 1943.

He later appeared in London as an extra in the operetta Gay Rosalinda (Palace Theatre, 1945-46), and as a singer in the play Hassan (Cambridge Theatre, 1951).

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