Prom 35 - Patience

Royal Albert Hall, LondonWS Gilbert was always concerned that Patience would date much sooner than his other collaborations with Sullivan. That isn't quite the case, though it has become a rarity. It also comes across as something of a problem piece. Its satire on all things self-regarding seems entirely apposite to our pretentious age, and yet its immediate focus was the aesthetic movement that included among its members the pre-Raphaelites, Whistler, William Morris and Oscar Wilde – who...

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