Patience (opera)
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Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride, is a comic opera in two acts with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera is a satire on the aesthetic movement of the 1870s and '80s in Engl
1881 Programme for Patience
George Grossmith as Bunthorne
Sydney Granville as Grosvenor
Aesthetic dress (left and right) contrasted with 'fashionable attire' (centre), 1881
H.M.S. Pinafore
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H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London on 25 May 1878,
Theatre poster, 1879
Scene from 1886 Savoy Theatre souvenir programme
Illustration of the characters in Act II by D. H. Friston, 1878
Rutland Barrington as A.B.S. Corcoran at the end of Pinafore