*GILBERT & SULLIVAN: RARE 1881 ROSE TEMPLE AS PATIENCE TRADE CARD*

Description

A rare original 1881 Gilbert and Sullivan Patience trade card featuring Rose Temple in the title role. Dimensions four and three quarters by two and three quarters inches. Light wear otherwise good.  See the story of Patience below.
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From Wikipedia:
Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride
, is a
comic opera
in two acts with music by
Arthur Sullivan
and libretto by
W. S. Gilbert
. The opera is a
satire
on the
aesthetic movement
of the 1870s and '80s in England and, more broadly, on fads, superficiality, vanity, hypocrisy and pretentiousness; it also satirises romantic love, rural simplicity and military bluster.
First performed at the
Opera Comique
, London, on 23 April 1881,
Patience
moved to the 1,292-seat
Savoy Theatre
on 10 October 1881, where it was the first theatrical production in the world to be lit entirely by
electric light
. Henceforth, the
Gilbert and Sullivan
comic operas would be known as the
Savoy Operas
, and both fans and performers of Gilbert and Sullivan would come to be known as "Savoyards."
Patience
was the sixth operatic collaboration of fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan. It ran for a total of 578 performances, which was seven more than the authors' earlier work,
H.M.S. Pinafore
, and the second longest run of any work of musical theatre up to that time.