
18 May 1990

Bird on a Wire
An FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years. Now an old flame has recognised him, and the bad guys are back for revenge.
A 1995 Opera Australia performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic operetta, recorded at the Sydney Opera House. Bunthorne, a poet worshiped by every lady he meets, loves only one woman: Patience. But Patience does not share the other women's fascination with Bunthorne. She loves Archibald, her childhood friend who is now also a poet.
Patience
The Lady Jane
Archibald Grosvenor
Reginald Bunthorne
Colonel Calverley
The Duke of Dunstable
The Lady Angela
The Lady Saphir
Major Murgatroyd
The Lady Ella
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