Patience

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Event Patience
Venue Theatre Royal, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
First Date 28 April 1882
Last Date 29 April 1882
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description 'Twenty lovesick maidens' vie for the love of the poet Bunthorne - a satire of the 19th century aesthetic movement.
Primary Genre Music Theatre
Secondary Genre Comic Opera
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Armes Beaumont Actor Duke of Dunstable
Eldred Actor Angela
Forde Actor Major
Anna Forde Actor Saphir
Andrea Navaro Actor Lady Jane
Alice Rees Actor Patience
Riccardi Actor Colonel
E Royal Actor Ella
Giuseppe Verdi Actor Grosvenor
Howard Vernon Actor Bunthorne
William Schwenck Gilbert Book and Lyrics Librettist
Giorza Conductor
Arthur Seymour Sullivan Musician
Tramaglia Orchestral Leader
Works
Text Nationality England
Further Information Its mounting may without any exaggeration be described as magnificent. The two act scenes, representing 'Castle Bunthorne' and a sylvan glade in its vicinity, were superb specimens of scenic art, and elicited deserved appause. The dresses were singularly rich, appropriate, and effeotive; the gorgeoua military uniforms of the twenty dragoons, the varied tints of the aesthetic costumes of the 'twenty love-sick maidens,' and the handsome velvet attire of the male aesthetics and their soldierly imitators, all combined to form a scene of brilliant colouring, striking contrasts, artistic and symmetrical groupings and graceful movements suoh as most assuredly has never before been witnessed on a Wellington stage. (Review).
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 196641