Event Comment: Opera [1st time; Past 3, author unknown]. The music [to Part I] composed by
Giovanni Battista? Bianchi, [to Part II by]
Rauzzini, [to Part III by]
Giordani. With Grand Chorusses. With new Decorations devised and painted by
Novosielski, and new Dresses. The Side-boards, with a cold Collation and all sorts of Wines, at 12 o'clock. The Performance under the direction of
Vestris Sen., and to conclude with a Ball. Tickets, at 2 Guineas each, are ready to be delivered at the Office in
Union-court, wher
e Boxes may be taken. No Masks will be admitted. The Doors will be opened at 9:00, and the Performance to begin at 10:00. Books of the Performance will be given out (gratis) at the Theatre.
Morning Herald, 7 June: The
Omaggio, or homage paid by the vassals and tenants to their Lord, is naturally calculated to give free scope to lively, and sentimental music. In the former stil
e Bianchi and
Giardini [sic] were equally succesful; and in the latter Rauzzini was surprisingly great, both as composer and performer...
Slingsby would, in our opinion, have come out with as great a share of applause as th
e best of them, having to go through an
English dance in his own stile, but by some unaccountable accident...the music-band stopped short when he was in the very climax of his exertions. The scenes are in the rural stile, with the addition of natural trees, flowering shrubs, &c., set in the neatest order...The company did not begin to move till about four, and by five the rooms were cleared.
Public Advertiser, 7 June: The Vestris' gave incontrovertible proof of the variety of their powers...They did more, they shewed what this country had never seen-the possibility of presenting to the eye a large and extensive stage filled with dancers all in motion at the same time