Saturday 9 July, 7.30pm
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Staged performance with piano accompaniment.
Charles Court Opera has been described as one of the leading and most versatile chamber opera and music theatre companies in the UK, and is led by the company's Founding Artistic Director, John Savournin, who many will know from his star turn as Captain Corcoran in the recent HMS Pinafore at ENO. One of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most successful shows, Patience is a rollicking satire that pits the straight-laced ideals of the Victorian era against the passions and indulgences of the 1870s’ Aesthetic Movement, ridiculing each side of the spectrum. In particular it pokes fun at fads, superficiality, vanity, hypocrisy and pretentiousness and also romantic love, rural simplicity and military bluster. First performed at the Opera Comique, London, on 23 April 1881, Patience 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.
‘Rapidly gaining a reputation as the go-to man for Gilbert and Sullivan.’ Hugh Canning, Opera Magazine May 2022.
Tonight’s fully-staged performance will be brought to life by a cast of international G&S specialists, with piano accompaniment.
Tickets: £29/£22/£14/£10
(£10 age 30 and under)
• Patience - Catriona Hewiston
• Lady Angela - Meriel Cunningham
• Lady Saphir - Jenny Begley
• Lady Jane - Jennie Jacobs
• Reginald Bunthorne - Matthew Kellett
• Archibald Grosvenor - Matthew Siveter
• Colonel Calverley - Matthew Palmer
• Major Murgatroyd - Dominic Bowe
• Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable - David Menezes
• Director - John Savournin
• Musical Director/Pianist - David Eaton
• Designer - Simon Bejer
• Revival Choreographer - Merry Holden (original choreography by Damian Czarnecki)
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