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Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Admission as 7 Nov. Daily Journal, 14 Jan.: On Saturday Night, his Majesty was at the Opera...and Signiora Catzoni, newly arrived from Italy, perform'd for the first Time, to the Surprize and admiration of the Audience, which was very numerous. [See also London Journal and British Journal, 12 and 19 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. M De Fabrice to Count Flemming, 15 Jan. (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 147): Today is the second performance and there is such a run on it that tickets are already being sold at 2 and 3 guineas which are ordinarily half a guinea. London Journal, 19 Jan.: Last Tuesday being the second Time of Madam Cotzoni's Performance, we hear that Opera Tickets sold that Day and the preceding, at 4 Guineas each

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Mainpiece Title: Otho

Event Comment: Benefit Signiora Margherita Durastanti. And particular Care will be taken to place Benches on the Stage for the Accommodation of the Company. N.B. Whereas the Benefit for Signiora Durastanti is Part of her Contract, the Directors of the Royal Academy of Musick resolve not to make use of the Liberty of the House for that Night. [This benefit brought her nearly a thousand pounds.-Deutsch, Handel, p. 160.

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Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Margherita Durastanti. Particular Care will be taken to Place Benches on the Stage for the Accommodation of the Company. [According to Deutsch, Handel, p. 160, her benefit brought her #1,000, in addition to a salary of 1,200 guineas yearly. The Cantata is printed in the Daily Journal, 18 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Event Comment: [Text by A. Salvi, altered by Haym. Music by Handel.] Admission as 31 Oct. 1724

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rodelinda

Event Comment: TThe King, Prince and Princess of Wales present. Universal Mercury, February 1726: Mr Handel had the Satisfaction of seeing an old Opera of his not only fill the House, which had not been done for a considerable time before, but People crowding so fast to it, that above 300 were turn'd away for want of room

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Mainpiece Title: Otho

Event Comment: [Text by Rolli. Music by Handel.

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Mainpiece Title: Scipio

Event Comment: [Text by Rolli. Music by Handel.] At 7 p.m. Daily Journal, 7 May: On Thursday Night, Signiora Faustina, the famous Roman Songstress, performed his Majesty, their Royal Highnesses, and great Numbers of the Nobility and Quality, in...Alexander...with great Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Related Works
Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel
Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Text possible by Haym or Rolli. Le Nuove Scene sone del Sigr Giuseppe Goupy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

Event Comment: For a long letter on operatic affairs, see Deutsch, Handel, pp. 207-8

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Music by Handel.] Admission by Ticket only (not more than 400) at half a guinea. Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard The First King Of England

Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Text by Haym.] The King, Queen, Princess Amelia, and Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy

Event Comment: [Text altered from A. Salvi. Music by Handel.] Pit and Boxes by Tickets only at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m. [Customary notices.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lotharius

Event Comment: For a comment on this performance, see Rolli to Riva, 11 Dec., in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 249-50

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lotharius

Event Comment: [Text by S. Stampigli. Music by Handel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parthenope

Event Comment: A New Opera. [By Zeno. Music probably by Bartholmeo Cordans.-see Deutsch, Handel, p. 254.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ormisda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy

Performance Comment: Deutsch, Handel, p. 254 lists: Tolomeo-Bernacchi; Seleuce-Signora Strada; Elisa-Signora Merighi; Alessandro-Signora Bertolli; Araspe-Fabri.
Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Apostolo Zeno. Recitatives by Handel. Edition of 1731 gives no performers' names, but states: Done into English by Mr Humphreys.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wenceslaus

Event Comment: [For a reconstruction of the cast, see Deutsch, Handel, p. 274. Their Majesties present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rodelinda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

Performance Comment: Wherein Signora Bagnolesi, lately arrived from Italy, is to perform; but 2d edition of 1731 lists: Admeto-Senesino; Alceste-Signora Anna Bagnolesi; Hercules-Gio. Battista Pinacci; Trasimede-Antonio Guaxandi called Campioli; Antignona-Signora Anna StradadelPo; Meraspe-Antonio Montagnana. See also Deutsch, Handel, p. 278.
Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Translation by Samuel Humphreys.] Wherein the Cloaths and Scenes are all entirely New. Colman's Opera Register: But did not draw much Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aetius

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Handel. Done into English by Humphreys. Their Majesties, Prince, eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarmes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: When the fine Overture compos'd by the late ingenious Mr William Babell, for St. Cecilia's Day, will be perform'd with Trumpets, Hautboys, Violins, and Bassoons, with several other Pieces of Mr Handel's Composition, for Trumpets, French Horns by the best Masters. I: Mr Wm. Babell's Overture-; Overture Ptolomy-; Concerto Violin-; Hautboys Solo-; Concerto French Horns-; II: Overture Siroe-; Solo Flute-; Concerto Hautbois-; Seventh Concerto Corelli-; Concerto French Horns-; Several flute Pieces-Mr John Baston

Performance Comment: Cecilia's Day, will be perform'd with Trumpets, Hautboys, Violins, and Bassoons, with several other Pieces of Mr Handel's Composition, for Trumpets, French Horns by the best Masters. I: Mr Wm. Babell's Overture-; Overture Ptolomy-; Concerto Violin-; Hautboys Solo-; Concerto French Horns-; II: Overture Siroe-; Solo Flute-; Concerto Hautbois-; Seventh Concerto Corelli-; Concerto French Horns-; Several flute Pieces-Mr John Baston.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius

Performance Comment: For possible cast see Deutsch, Handel, p. 288.