Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience

Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria presents Patience, featuring Sullivan’s most beautiful music and Gilbert’s brilliant satire ridiculing the Victorians for their ability to hold straight-laced ideals while obsessing over the passions and indulgences of Oscar Wilde’s world of poets and painters.

Featuring forty singers on stage, a full live orchestra in the pit, glorious costumes, charming dance and energetic performances.

The rapturous maidens of the village seek beauty and perfect artistic expression and spurn their confused (and decidedly non-poetic) military suitors for Reginald Bunthorne, a moody and handsome poet. However, Bunthorne only has eyes for the simple milkmaid, Patience. The problem? Bunthorne’s artistic ways are all just an act to attract women to him - he doesn’t even really like poetry! Besides, Patience is in love with her childhood sweetheart, Archibald Grosvenor, who really is a poet, but she feels she cannot marry him because he is just too perfect. How will this romantic love triangle unravel?

 

 

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Free parking. Step-free pathway from car to seat. Bar available. Informative, low-cost program and unique DVD recordings and GSOV merch available for purchase.

Alexander Theatre, 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, 3800, View Map

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