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NODA
The best of G&S in the South
Main Show Director 2002 - 2006
Roberta Morrell
She went on to study singing and clarinet at the Royal College of Music in London, before joining the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1972 playing several principal roles with the famous company until its closure in 1982. Since then Roberta has worked as a freelance performer and director. She both appears with and directs ‘The Magic of Gilbert and Sullivan’ company at concert halls throughout Britain and always loves working with her former D’Oyly Carte colleagues.
She has more than seventy productions to her credit directing operettas, musicals and pantomimes, but she is best known for her association with the Savoy Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. She is a popular director and teacher in North America and was consultant assessor to the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama for several years.
Roberta has written a biography of the great D’Oyly Carte baritone, Kenneth Sandford, which has been acclaimed around the G&S world, and is also the author of a novel Vengeance Dire, a murder mystery about an amateur operatic society. Following the success of the book, she is currently writing another G&S ‘whodunnit’. As an actress, Roberta has appeared in numerous television programmes - most recent in Chucklevision - and played the part of Peep-Bo in the award winning film Chariots of Fire. She now lives on the beautiful Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales, where her interests include watching sport and attempting to complete The Times crossword.
She has more than seventy productions to her credit directing operettas, musicals and pantomimes, but she is best known for her association with the Savoy Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. She is a popular director and teacher in North America and was consultant assessor to the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama for several years.
Roberta has written a biography of the great D’Oyly Carte baritone, Kenneth Sandford, which has been acclaimed around the G&S world, and is also the author of a novel Vengeance Dire, a murder mystery about an amateur operatic society. Following the success of the book, she is currently writing another G&S ‘whodunnit’. As an actress, Roberta has appeared in numerous television programmes -
Roberta Morrell is from West Bromwich and is proud of her Black Country heritage. Her interest in Gilbert and Sullivan first started when she played Katisha in the school production of The Mikado.