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Patience

Comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan

Also known as Bunthorne's Bride

Instance of: dramatico-musical work

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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 England and, more broadly, on fads, superficiality, vanity, hypocrisy and pretentiousness; it also satirises romantic love, rural simplicity and military bluster.

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Genre: Q13220650
Composer: Arthur Sullivan
Librettist: W. S. Gilbert
Title: Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride
Number of parts of this work: 2 act
Date of first performance: April 23, 1881 location: Q1568785
Language: English
Form of creative work: opera
operetta
Different from: Q125627115

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