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Eleanor Evans
Eleanor Evans (1893 – 20 December 1969) was a Welsh actress, singer and stage director. She performed in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas for over a span of more than 20 years with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. In 1949, she was appointed as the company's Stage Director and Director of Productions, continuing in those positions until 1953, but she proved to be unpopular with actors whom she directed because of her inflexibility and strict devotion to the traditional staging and comic business that had been used by the company for decades.
==Early years==
Evans was born in Henllan, Denbighshire. The younger daughter of John Evans, a veterinarian who specialised in gelding horses, she had three brothers. Her sister was the opera singer Laura Evans-Williams.〔Census records〕 Evans studied at the Royal Academy of Music, as did her future husband, the bass-baritone Darrell Fancourt, with whom she sang at a Royal Academy concert in May 1914.〔''The Musical Times'', July 1914, p. 469〕 They married in January 1917.〔''The Times'', 24 July 1913, p. 12; and (London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754–1921 ), accessed 25 July 2010 〕
Fancourt joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as a principal in 1920, and Evans followed him into the company as a chorister in 1921. Evans, who acquired the nickname "Snookie", first played the role of the Plaintiff in ''Trial by Jury'' later that year. According to fellow D'Oyly Carte performer Derek Oldham, "Oh, she was so beautiful, was Snookie! We all fell for her, and we gave Darrell a busy time keeping us 'off'."〔("Derek Oldham Remembers" ) at the ''Memories of the D'Oyly Carte'' website〕 Evans continued singing in the chorus until 1923 and also was given the small role of Ada in ''Princess Ida''. She again sang the Plaintiff during 1924, and also played the larger role of Lady Psyche in ''Princess Ida''. Occasionally, she also filled in as Josephine in ''H.M.S. Pinafore''. She continued to play the Plaintiff and Psyche in the 1925–26 season. After that, she returned to the chorus but on occasion she filled in as Psyche and as Gianetta in ''The Gondoliers'' during the next season. From 1927 to 1937, she sang only in the chorus. She left the company in July 1937, but returned from 1941 to 1945, again singing in the chorus.〔Stone, David. ("Eleanor Evans", ) ''Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company'', 24 June 2002, accessed 26 November 2009〕
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