Performance on 3 - Performance on 3: Proms 2009 - Prom 35: Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience

From the BBC Proms 2009 season, Petroc Trelawny presents Charles Mackerras conducting a semi-staged performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's exuberant operetta Patience, which opened the famous Savoy Theatre in London in 1881. The operetta satirises the fad of the 1870s and 1880s known as the aesthetic craze, when poets, painters and composers were prolific but, some argued, empty and self-indulgent. And Patience, the simple village milkmaid, cares nothing for poetry. Gilbert and Sullivan: Patience (semi-staged) Patience ...... Rebecca Bottone (soprano) Lady Jane ...... Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano) Lady Angela ...... Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) Lady Ella ...... Elena Xanthoudakis (soprano) Lady Saphir ...... Sophie-Louise Dann (mezzo-soprano) Reginald Bunthorne ...... Simon Butteriss (baritone) Archibald Grosvenor ...... Toby Stafford-Allen (baritone) Colonel Calverley ...... Donald Maxwell (baritone) Major Murgatroyd ...... Graeme Danby (bass) Lt. Duke of Dunstable ...... Bonaventura Bottone (tenor) Solicitor ...... Robert Tear (tenor) Chorus of English National Opera BBC Concert Orchestra Charles Mackerras (conductor) Martin Duncan (director).