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GILBERT & SULLIVAN PRESENT

PATIENCE

2026 SUMMER GRAND PRODUCTION

JUNE 12 - 21 | MACTHEATRE AT MCCALLUM FINE ARTS ACADEMY

Join us in June 2026 for our summer grand production of Patience. Last performed by GSA in 2012, Patience is the sixth operatic collaboration of fourteen by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. It was first performed in London in 1881, and was an immediate hit with audiences. Patience has some of Gilbert’s finest comedy and Sullivan’s most captivating tunes, adding up to a masterwork fully equal to their very best. It has wit, charm, poetry . . . and a delightfully complicated love triangle. A high-spirited send-up of artistic affectation. It is at heart a comic opera about the heart-love unknown, love unrequited, love of admiration, love of the fashionable, unselfish love, and selfish love, too.

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Event Details

• Date: Friday, June 12 206 - Sunday, June 21, 2026
• Time: Friday and Saturday 7:30 P.M. | Sunday 2:00 P.M.
• Venue: MacTheatre at McCallum Fine Arts Academy
• Website: https://www.gilbertsullivan.org/

Ticket Information

• Cost: $13.87 – $134.79

Presenter Details

• Name: Gilbert & Sullivan

The Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas were composed between 1871 and 1896 in Victorian London. Their sparkling musical scores by Sir Arthur Sullivan and their dazzling lyrics by Sir William S. Gilbert have kept them popular throughout the world ever since. They've been called the "Saturday Night Live" of their day for their satiric appeal, but they have proven universal and timeless in their comic and ironic treatment of human foibles through their "airy persiflage" and "innocent merriment." And the popular appeal of the music has endeared them to millions who cherish "laughing song and merry dance." They are arguably the most popular musical comedies ever written for the stage. For more information about Gilbert & Sullivan visit The Gilbert & Sullivan Archive or GSOpera.

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