Pinafore became an international sensation, as did The Pirates of Penzance ( 1879 ) and Patience ( 1881 ).

The next Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Patience, opened at the Opera Comique in April 1881 and was another big success, usurping Pinafore's position as the longest running piece in the series with the second-longest run in musical theatre history.

Patience was the first production at the new theatre, transferring there on 10 October 1881.

As an example of their level of activity, an 1881 souvenir programme commemorating the 250th performance of Patience in London and its 100th performance in New York states that, in addition to these two productions of Patience, Carte was simultaneously producing many other projects.

Although little remembered today, Pollaky's fame at the time was such that he was mentioned in various books of the 1870s and immortalized as " Paddington " Pollaky for his " keen penetration " in the 1881 comic opera, Patience.

1881 Programme for Patience ( opera ) | Patience

Patience ( 1881 ) was the first opera to appear at the Savoy Theatre, and thus, in a strict sense, the first true " Savoy Opera ", although the term " Savoy Opera " has, for over a century, included the complete set of thirteen operas that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote for Richard D ' Oyly Carte:

: Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride ( 1881 )

1881 Programme for Patience ( opera ) | Patience

The work that opened the new theatre was Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Patience, which been running since April 1881 at the smaller Opera Comique.

In the 1881 comic opera Patience, the popular poetaster and fraud Bunthorne's means of publicizing himself is to walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in his medieval hand.

Grossmith as Bunthorne in Patience ( opera ) | Patience, 1881

Pinafore ( 1878 ); Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, who is an expert at everything except " military knowledge " ( 1880 ); the aesthetic poet, Reginald Bunthorne in Patience ( 1881 ); the love-lonely Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe ( 1882 ); the sarcastic cripple, King Gama, in Princess Ida ( 1884 ); Ko-Ko the cheap tailor, elevated to the post of Lord High Executioner, in The Mikado ( 1885 ); the accursed Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore ( 1887 ); and the pathetic jester, Jack Point, in The Yeomen of the Guard ( 1888 ).

He also wrote the music for Arthur Law's short comic opera, Uncle Samuel ( 1881 ), the one-act curtain raiser that preceded Patience on the Opera Comique programme.

Two more Gilbert and Sullivan successes followed, now produced by the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company: The Pirates of Penzance ( 1880 ) and, finally, Patience ( 1881 ), which was later transferred to Carte's larger new theatre, the Savoy Theatre.

He is also credited with writing the overture to Gilbert and Sullivan's 1881 opera, Patience.

Pinafore, 1878, m Arthur Sullivan, lb W. S. Gilbert ( 571 in London ) ( first G & S smash hit and second longest-running piece of musical theatre in history until it was edged out by Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience in 1881.

* The colonel's song " If you want a receipt for that popular mystery " in Act 1 of Patience ( 1881 ).

1881 Programme for Patience

During the original run of Patience, on 10 October 1881, the show transferred to the new Savoy Theatre, the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electric light.

Patience satirised the self-indulgent aesthetic movement of the 1870s and ' 80s in England.

The style and these poets were satirised by Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Patience and other works, such as F. C. Burnand's drama The Colonel, and in comic magazines such as Punch.

This aspect of the movement was also satirised by Punch magazine and in Patience.

" Patience was not the first satire of the aesthetic movement played by Richard D ' Oyly Carte's company at the Opera Comique.

All seems resolved until Grosvenor enters and the ladies, finding him poetic, aesthetic, and far more attractive than Bunthorne, become his partisans instead (" Oh, list while we a love confess "), much to the dismay of the Dragoons, Patience, Bunthorne and especially Grosvenor himself.

The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Patience pokes fun at the Aesthetic movement, and the lead character of Reginald Bunthorne is often identified as a send-up of Oscar Wilde, though Bunthorne is more likely an amalgam of several prominent artists, writers, and Aesthetic figures.

This artistic movement was so popular, and also so easy to ridicule as a meaningless fad, that it made Patience a big hit.

The remainder built two new ships: the Deliverance, largely from the material stripped from the Sea Venture ( which sat high-and-dry on the reef, and was still being cannibalised in 1612 – its guns were used to arm a fort ) and the Patience.

This map from a 1773 atlas, based on the: commons: File: CEM-44-La-Chine-la-Tartarie-Chinoise-et-le-Thibet-1734-Amur-2572. jpg | earlier work by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d ' Anville | d ' Anville, who in his turn made use of the information collected by Jesuit missions in China | Jesuits in 1709, asserts the existence of Sakhalin — but only assigns to it the northern half of the island and its northeastern coast ( with Cape Patience, discovered by Maarten Gerritsz Vries | de Vries in 1643 ).

Originally known as " Rodgersville ", it took its name from Andrew and Patience Rodgers of South Carolina who moved into the area and purchased at a public land sale in Huntsville on May 3, 1818.

Of Patience, considered the slightest of the four poems, its only manifest source is the Vulgate Bible.

While in Clermont, he became a fixture at its literary society, where he would earn acclaim for his discussion on the topic of " Patience.

According to Patience ( 2005 ), PNG has a public relations problem in terms of its image abroad.

Eight Off is a form of Patience, named after its employment of eight cells, played with one deck of playing cards.

Poker Square ( sometimes known either by its plural or Poker Solitaire ) is a Patience game with a very unusual objective: to build the best poker hand using just 25 cards from the deck.

Patience had its final D ' Oyly Carte performances in April 1979 and was left out of the company's last three seasons of touring.

Gervase Hughes wrote, " Although the orchestration is disfigured by over-reliance on glissando harps and succulent counter-subjects for the horns, much of the music comes over well in its new guise, and the combination of a melody from the opening chorus of Patience with the second act quintet from The Gondoliers is quite brilliant.

For the idol's power to be unleashed it needs to be placed in its temple, which has just been discovered, and this is where Patience travels next.

But the two poets are each in love with Patience, the village milkmaid, who detests one of them and feels that it is her duty to avoid the other despite her love for him.

Patience Agbabi ( born 1965 ) is a British poet and performer with a particular emphasis on the spoken word.

These included two companies touring with Patience, two touring with other Gilbert and Sullivan operas, one touring with the operetta Olivette ( co-produced with Charles Wyndham ), one with Claude Duval in America, a production of Youth running at a New York theatre, a lecture tour by Archibald Forbes ( a war correspondent ) and productions of Patience, Pirates, Claude Duval and Billee Taylor in association with J. C. Williamson in Australia, among other things.

Patience Moran, daughter of a lodge keeper, says she saw Charles and James arguing and, when James raised his hand as if to hit his father, she ran to her mother.

Her career was now definitely on the rise, for in 1912 she joined Nat C. Goodwin, Lyn Harding and Constance Collier in a dramatization of Charles Dickens ’ Oliver Twist, one of the earliest productions of that work, as well as appearing with De Wolf Hopper in an all-star production of Gilbert and Sullivan ’ s Patience.