Patience

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Patience is a comic opera by W.S. Gilbert (1836–1911)[1] and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)[2]

The original text

A 1881

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1890: Performed in the Exhibition Theatre, Cape Town in January by an opera company managed and directed by Edgar Perkins. The company included R.S. Gregg, E. le Hay, Dennis Coyne, Frank Wheeler, Harry Miller, Ada Bemister, Carrie Nelson, Harriet Wood, and Ella Bankhardt. Musical direction was by James Hyde.

1933: Staged by the Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society

1935: Staged by the Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society

1948: Staged by the Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society

1950: Staged by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

1954: Staged by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

1962: Staged by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

1973: Staged by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

1979: Staged by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

1993: Staged by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_%28opera%29


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