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Gilbert & Sullivan - Patience / Douglas, Olsen, Warlow, Australian Opera
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Full of all the popular tunes and rousing choruses expected from a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Patience is a delightfully ridiculous story satirizing the late 19th century's obsession with beauty and emotion. The production opens with 20 lovesick maidens who abandon their worthy fiances to moon over two poets. Both bards, however, are distracted by the good-natured milkmaid Patience, who is far too sensible to fall under their spell. The hilarity inherent in the satire still remains, and this Australian Opera production is an irrepressibly cheerful piece of nonsense.
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In this production, Opera Australia meets and brilliantly overcomes a special kind of challenge--what we might call historically informed comedy. Patience raises problems different from and harder to negotiate than in The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore, or Pirates of Penzance. Those works get most of their laughs from universal human foibles or ridiculous plot twists; they have a validity as deep and permanent as human stupidity.
The comedy in Patience is closely linked to a particular time and place, specifically the antiquarian fads and fashions of Victorian England, with characters striking Pre-Raphaelite poses and the hero pursuing the heroine with what he calls "a Florentine 14th-century frenzy." For a modern production, the designer and stage director must establish awareness of these absurdities to make people laugh at them. This is accomplished in a performance as effective visually as it is musically--Gilbert & Sullivan caviar. --Joe McLellan
ASIN: B00005NG0X
VSKU: DBV.B00005NG0X.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Christine Douglas|Dennis Olsen|Anthony Warlow|Heather Begg|Jennifer Bermingham|John Germain|Graeme Ewer|Roxane Hislop|Neil Kirkby|Cameron Kirkpatrick|William S. Gilbert|Toni Powell|John Miley
Binding: Dvd
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!
ASIN: B00005NG0X
VSKU: DBV.B00005NG0X.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Christine Douglas|Dennis Olsen|Anthony Warlow|Heather Begg|Jennifer Bermingham|John Germain|Graeme Ewer|Roxane Hislop|Neil Kirkby|Cameron Kirkpatrick|William S. Gilbert|Toni Powell|John Miley
Binding: Dvd
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!
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