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Patience

CATALOGUE NUMBER
473 647-2

LISTEN
Overture
The soldiers of our Queen
     


CAST
Patience or Bunthorne’s Bride
with dialogue
an Aesthetic Opera

Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan 1842–1900
Words by W.S. Gilbert 1836–1911

Colonel Calverley Donald Adams
Major Murgatroyd John Cartier
Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable Philip Potter
Reginald Bunthorne John Reed
Archibald Grosvenor Kenneth Sandford
Patience Mary Sansom
The Lady Angela Yvonne Newman
The Lady Saphir Beti Lloyd-Jones
The Lady Ella Jennifer Toye
The Lady Jane Gillian Knight

The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
Soloists and Chorus
New Symphony Orchestra of London
conducted by Isidore Godfrey, O.B.E.
Recorded under the direction of Bridget D’Oyly Carte, D.B.E.
RECORDING INFORMATION
Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement are the inspiration for Patience in which Bunthorne and Grosvenor, rival poets, pale and sensitive, compete with a swaggering band of Dragoons for the attentions of the milkmaid Patience and the “Twenty Love Sick Maidens”.

The D’Oyly Carte Patience comes up superbly in its digitally remastered format … the D’Oyly Carte soloists, chorus and orchestra have never sounded better … both Bunthorne and Grosvenor are well played while the military numbers, led by Donald Adams in glorious voice, have an unforgettable vigour and presence.
The Penguin Guide to Opera on CD
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