Overview
Rival poets Reginald Bunthorne (a 'fleshy poet') and Archibald Grosvenor (an 'idyllic poet') vie for the affections of the lovely milkmaid Patience. A 1995 Opera Australia performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic operetta, recorded at the Sydney Opera House.
Cast
- Christine Douglas as Patience
- Heather Begg as The Lady Jane
- Anthony Warlow as Archibald Grosvenor
- Dennis Olsen as Reginald Bunthorne
- John Germain as Colonel Calverley
- Graeme Ewer as The Duke of Dunstable
- Jennifer Bermingham as The Lady Angela
- Roxane Hislop as The Lady Saphir
- Neil Kirkby as Major Murgatroyd
- Toni Powell as The Lady Ella