Name: Patience Picnic
Start: 2026-03-07T00:00:00
Location: The Vortex

Gilbert & Sullivan Austin

Our third salon concert, held in a private home, will feature a selection of favorite songs showcasing the talents of our mezzo-sopranos. Wine, cheese, desserts and more will deliciously round out that afternoon.

Mezzo Madness & Other Follies

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.

Patience

McCallum Fine Arts Academy

This fun-filled, family-oriented free event features activities for kids and a chance to meet and greet and hear from the cast and crew of our summer grand production of Patience.