Patience (Opera): Comic Opera, Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert, Opera Comique, Savoy Theatre, Gilbert and Sullivan, Les Cloches de Corneville, George du Maurier - Softcover

 
9786133714045: Patience (Opera): Comic Opera, Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert, Opera Comique, Savoy Theatre, Gilbert and Sullivan, Les Cloches de Corneville, George du Maurier

Synopsis

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Patience, or Bunthorne''s Bride, is a comic opera in two acts with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. First performed at the Opera Comique, London, on 23 April 1881, it moved to the 1,292-seat Savoy Theatre on 10 October 1881, where it was the first theatrical production in the world to be lit entirely by electric light. Henceforth, the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas would be known as the Savoy Operas, and both fans and performers of Gilbert and Sullivan would come to be known as Savoyards." Patience was the sixth operatic collaboration of fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan. It ran for a total of 578 performances, which was seven more than the authors'' earlier work, H.M.S. Pinafore, and the second longest run of any work of musical theatre up to that time, after the operetta Les Cloches de Corneville."

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