02 November 1742
Event Information
Theatre:
King's Theatre
Theatrical Season:
1742-1743
Volume:
3
Comments:
A New Opera. With Dances and other Decorations entirely new. Pit and Boxes to be put together; and no person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, No Person to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery to be open'd at Four o'clock, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. [Customary notice will not be included again. A pasticcio; music by Hasse, Lampugnani, Brivio, and Rinaldo da Capua; librettist--Apostolo Zeno. See Burney, History of Music, IV, 447.
Mainpiece
Title:
Gianguir
Comments:
Gianguir-Amorevoli; Cosrovius-Angelo Monticelli; Semira (Alinda)-Caterina Visconti; Zama-Sga Giovanna Contini; Mahobeth-Sga Giulia Frasi (Larpent MS.).
Gianguir-Amorevoli; Cosrovius-Angelo Monticelli; Semira (Alinda)-Caterina Visconti; Zama-Sga Giovanna Contini; Mahobeth-Sga Giulia Frasi (Larpent MS.).
Cast:
- Role: Gianguir Actor: Amorevoli
- Role: Cosrovius Actor: Angelo Monticelli
- Role: Semira Actor: Caterina Visconti
- Role: Zama Actor: Sga Giovanna Contini
- Role: Mahobeth Actor: Sga Giulia Frasi
Dance
Comment:
Barbara Campanini (Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, I, 191)