Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride · Operetta
Songs in Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride
This page features the songs from Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride. Song cards link to details such as style, context, vocal notes, and audition cut suggestions when available. Explore the list below to access song guides.
Overture
Act I
- 1. "Twenty love-sick maidens we" (Angela, Ella and Chorus of Maidens)
- 2. "Still brooding on their mad infatuation" (Patience, Saphir, Angela, and Chorus)
- 2a. "I cannot tell what this love may be" (Patience and Chorus)
- 2b. "Twenty love-sick maidens we" (Chorus of Maidens - Exit)
- 3. "The soldiers of our Queen" (Chorus of Dragoons)
- 3a. "If you want a receipt for that popular mystery" (Colonel and Chorus)
- 4. "In a doleful train two and two we walk" (Angela, Ella, Saphir, Bunthorne, and Chorus of Maidens and Dragoons)
- 4a. "Twenty love-sick maidens we" (Chorus of Maidens - Exit)
- 5. "When I first put this uniform on" (Colonel and Chorus of Dragoons)
- 6. "Am I alone and unobserved?" (Bunthorne)
- 7. "Long years ago, fourteen maybe" (Patience and Angela)
- 8. "Prithee, pretty maiden" (Patience and Grosvenor)
- 8a. "Though to marry you would very selfish be" (Patience and Grosvenor)
- 9. "Let the merry cymbals sound" (Ensemble)
Act II
- 10. "On such eyes as maidens cherish" (Chorus of Maidens)
- 11. "Sad is that woman's lot" (Jane)
- 12. "Turn, oh turn, in this direction" (Chorus of Maidens)
- 13. "A magnet hung in a hardware shop" (Grosvenor and Chorus of Maidens)
- 14. "Love is a plaintive song" (Patience)
- 15. "So go to him, and say to him" (Jane and Bunthorne)
- 16. "It's clear that mediaeval art" (Duke, Major, and Colonel)
- 17. "If Saphir I choose to marry" (Angela, Saphir, Duke, Major, and Colonel)
- 18. "When I go out of door" (Bunthorne and Grosvenor)
- 19. "I'm a Waterloo House young man" (Grosvenor and Chorus of Maidens)
- 20. "After much debate internal" (Ensemble)
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number.