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Patience; or, Bunthorne’s Bride
Arthur Sullivan
June 2, 2017 at 7:30pm
June 3, 2017 at 7:30pm
Boston University Theatre
Patience; or, Bunthorne’s Bride
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Libretto by W. S. Gilbert
Sung in English
Run time: Two hours with one 15-minute intermission.
Wilde Opera Nights season sponsored by Randolph J. Fuller
A fully staged performance of the Gilbert & Sullivan’s famous exploration of Oscar Wilde’s world of the Aesthetes of Victorian England rounds out the Wilde Opera Nights season. Vanity, passion, and virtue challenge changing societal norms in this comédie célèbre.
“ “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
–Oscar Wilde
Cast and Creative
Gil RoseConductor
Aaron EngebrethReginald Bunthorne
Sara HeatonPatience
Paul Max TiptonArchibald Grosvenor
Janna BatyLady Jane
James MaddalenaColonel Calverley
Steven GoldsteinLieut. The Duke of Dunstable
Jaime KorkosLady Angela
Sara WombleLady Ella
Heather GallagherLady Saphir
Sumner ThompsonMajor Murgatroyd
Frank Kelley
Stage Director
Stage Director
Larry Sousa
Choreographer
Choreographer
Lina Gonzalez
Assistant Conductor
Assistant Conductor
Amanda Mujica
Costume Designer
Costume Designer
Dan Daly
Scenic Designer
Scenic Designer
Christopher Ostrom
Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
Rachel Padula Shufelt
Hair and Makeup
Hair and Makeup
Background
English ballad opera, Italian opera, and French-style operetta thrived in England before the revolutions of the 1770s-90s, but in 1843, Parliament clamped down on popular entertainment. The new Theatres Act specified that saloons, gardens, and cafés providing music could only be licensed if run as “theatres:” the Lord Chamberlain could vet and prevent any new plays threatening “the preservation of good manners, decorum or of the public peace.” Promoters began to raise funds to establish new venues, and by the end of the century, London boasted several new houses dedicated to English comic opera.
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