UnclaimedFr8 | Patience (Act 1) - G&S - Opera Australia (1995, Live) @UnclaimedFr8 | Uploaded July 2016 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
This Opera Australia production of 'Patience', by Gilbert & Sullivan, was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House, February 28, 1995. This audio reproduction is taken from the ABC DVD, distributed by Kultur.com, #D4317. It is for educational and entertainment purposes only. I own no rights here. (But the DVD is mine).

Patience was the sixth collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan. It opened at the Opera Comique, London, on April 23, 1881. In October of that year, it moved to the Savoy Theater, where it was the first theatrical production ever to be lit entirely by electric light. From then on, the G&S operettas would be known as the 'Savoy Operas', and both fans and performers of Gilbert and Sullivan would come to be known as "Savoyards".
'Patience' satirizes the 'aesthetic movement' of the 1870s and '80s in England.
------------Link to Act 2 youtu.be/bSpCyq5PoAc

---CAST---
Colonel Calverley-----------John Germain
Major Murgatroyd-----------Neil Kirkby
Duke of Dunstable----------Graeme Ewer
Reginald Bunthorne--------Dennis Olsen
Archibald Grosvenor-------Anthony Warlow
Lady Angela--------------------Jennifer Bermingham
Lady Saphir---------------------Roxane Hislop
Lady Ella-------------------------Toni Powell
Lady Jane-----------------------Heather Begg
Patience-------------------------Christine Douglas

The Opera Australia Chorus
Opera Australia and Ballet Orchestra
Stage Production Director: John Cox
Conductor: David Stanhope

Information is from album notes, oakapplepress, and Wikipedia. Illustrations are by Lucille Corcos, from the 1941 publication 'A Treasury of Gilbert and Sullivan'.