The Brent Walker Patience (1982)

Cast Colonel Calverley Donald Adams Major Murgatroyd Roderick Kennedy Duke of Dunstable Terry Jenkins Reginald Bunthorne Derek Hammond-Stroud Archibald Grosvenor John Fryatt Lady Angela Shirley Chapman Lady Saphir Shelagh Squires Lady Ella Patricia Hay Lady Jane Anne Collins Patience Sandra Dugdale Ambrosian Opera Chorus London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Alexander Faris Camera Director: Dave Heather Stage Director: John Cox

Derek Hammond-Stroud & Patricia Hay OperaWorld PAT10V

This video production, part of the Brent Walker series, was borrowed almost move-for-move from the English National Opera production that dated from the 1970s. In fact, the Bunthorne here, Derek Hammond-Stroud, played Bunthorne on the Metropolitan Opera stage when ENO brought the production to New York in the mid-1980s. Because it is based on a tried-and-true production, this video turns out to be one of the better entries in the Walker series. I'm not a fan of Hammond-Stroud's irritating histrionics, but he made a minor career in the role and seems to have made a hit with most audiences.