Patience 2024

*Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride* is a comic opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan that satirizes Victorian era fads, vanity, and hypocrisy. The opera is set in Victorian times and follows Patience, a village milkmaid who is courted by multiple men, including a young Duke and her childhood friend Archibald Grosvenor. The opera also features Reginald Bunthorne, an aesthetic poet who affects period dress and composes poetry for Patience. The opera's plot backfires when Grosvenor reveals himself to be an ordinary man, and Patience realizes that she can marry him without being selfish.