The complete recording of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic opera ‘Patience’, which been unavailable for the last two years and is now being released at mid price. ‘Patience’ was staged in 1881, and was a playful satire on the artistic ‘aesthetic movement’ of the time, and the many colourful poets and artists that comprised it. These include Oscar Wilde (who famously toured the USA at the same time as the Opera in order to help audiences understand more fully what the satire was about), Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and James McNeill Whistler, among others.
