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Fresh, funny, frivolous: Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience from English Touring Opera in Cambridge

By Charlotte Valori, 27 April 2017
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“a practical, winning Patience from Lauren Zolezzi... one extremely classy milkmaid”
Reviewed at Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge on 26 April 2017
Programme
Sullivan, Patience
Performers
English Touring Opera
Timothy Burke, Conductor
Liam Steel, Director
Florence de Maré, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Lauren Zolezzi, Patience
Aled Hall, Lieut The Duke of Dunstable
Valerie Reid, Lady Jane
Suzanne Fischer, Lady Saphir
Andrew Slater, Colonel Calverley
Ross Ramgobin, Archibald Grosvenor
Bradley Travis, Reginald Bunthorne
Gaynor Keeble, Lady Angela
Jan Capinski, Major Murgatroyd
English Touring Opera Orchestra
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Charlotte Valori
Charlotte Valori
Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.