10 February 1744
Event Information
Theatre:
Covent Garden
Theatrical Season:
1743-1744
Volume:
3
Comments:
Performance After the manner of an Oratorio Set by Mr Handel. Tickets will be deliver'd to subscribers on paying their subscription money, this day and every day following at Mr Handel's House in Brook Street, near Hanover Square, where attendance will be given from nine o'clock in the Morning till three in the afternoon. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no person to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office in the theatre at Half a Guinea each, First Gallery 5s.; Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. [Customary notice which will not be repeated.] Gallery opened at Four o'clock, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six. Mrs Delany to Mrs Dewes: There is a four-part song that is delightfully pretty...there was no disturbance at the playhouse. -Delany, Autobiography, II, 262. [Libretto by Congreve.
Performance List
Mainpiece
Title:
Semele
Comments:
Semele-Signora Francesina [Elizabeth Duparc ( Delany, Autobiography, II, 254)]; Jupiter-Beard, tenor; Cadmus-Reinhold[, bass; Athamas-Daniel Sullivan[, alto; Juno-Miss Young[, mezzo soprano; Iris-Signora Avoglio[, soprano; Ino-Miss Young[, contralto; High Priest-Reinhold[, bass [Deutsch, Handel, p. 582]., bass [Deutsch, Handel, p. 582].
Semele-Signora Francesina [Elizabeth Duparc ( Delany, Autobiography, II, 254)]; Jupiter-Beard, tenor; Cadmus-Reinhold[, bass; Athamas-Daniel Sullivan[, alto; Juno-Miss Young[, mezzo soprano; Iris-Signora Avoglio[, soprano; Ino-Miss Young[, contralto; High Priest-Reinhold[, bass [Deutsch, Handel, p. 582]., bass [Deutsch, Handel, p. 582].
Cast:
- Role: Semele Actor: Signora Francesina
- Role: Jupiter Actor: Beard, tenor
- Role: Cadmus Actor: Reinhold
- Role: Athamas Actor: Daniel Sullivan
- Role: Juno Actor: Miss Young
- Role: Iris Actor: Signora Avoglio
- Role: Ino Actor: Miss Young
- Role: High Priest Actor: Reinhold