Patience (2006)
After the closure of the Royal English Opera Company in
2004, the company was revived under the name Rockford
Operetta Party and the first production under the new name
was the Gilbert & Sullivan opera Patience. We did not have
enough voices to present a full production of the opera, so
we performed an abridged version of the opera and concluded with selections from other Gilbert & Sullivan operas.
The performance occurred on October 6th 2006 at Central Christian Church.
Participants
John Denison, baritone
Scott Farrell, baritone
Brandy Hribik, soprano
Elizabeth LaGrande, contralto
Sue Lewis, soprano
Linda Smith, piano
Becca Watson, mezzo-soprano
Selections performed
A private buffoon
The sun whose rays
Alone and yet alive
Things are seldom what they seem
There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
The secret of my past success (from The Nautch Girl)
A tenor all singers above
Oh foolish fay
Hail, poetry
