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We found 1371 matches on Performance Comments, 1166 matches on Author, 615 matches on Event Comments, 50 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Debauchees

Song: 1 Brett

Dance: 1 As17451028

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Dance: 1 As17461027

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: As17461113

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: As17461124

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Peace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Peace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Song: Master Mattocks

Ballet: TThe Savoyard Travellers. Principal Savoyards-Grandchamps, Mad Auretti, Matthews, Mrs Addison, Pelling, Shawford, Harrison, Master Shawford, Mad Mariet, Mrs Baker, Mrs Memi, Miss Cole; Children Savoyards-Master Jonno, Miss Popling; Peasants-Macneale, Mad DeLaContri, Master Simons, Master G. Yates, Vaughan, Mrs Shawford, Mrs L'Font, Miss Shawford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Dance: II: Pigmalion, as17501102; IV: Comic Dance, as17501117

Ballet: End: A New Comic Entertainment of Dancing call'd The Bird Catchers. Peasants-Devisse, Mad Auretti; Shepherds-McNeil, Roger, G. Yates; Shepherdesses-Mad Camargo, Mad Mariet, Mrs Addison; Two Peasant Children-the Little Swiss, Miss Poplin; Bird Catchers-Pelling, Harvey, Shawford, Master Shawford, Miss Toogood, Mad Mimi, Mrs Shawford, Miss Shawford; a New Scene-; Decorations-

Event Comment: An Italian Comic Opera by some performers just arriv'd from Paris. Went off pretty well, -a Girl greatly admir'd (Cross). [The girl seems to have been Sga Spiletta.] She plays off with inexhaustible spirits all muscular evolutions of the face and brows; while in her eye wantons a studied archness, and pleasing malignity. Her voice has strength and scope sufficient; has neither too much of the feminine, nor an inclining to the male. Her gestures are ever varying; her transitions quick and easy. Some over-nice critics, forgetting, or not knowing the meaning of the word Burletta, cry that her manner is outre. Wou'd she not be faulty were it otherwise? The thing chargeable to her is (perhaps) too great a luxurience of comic tricks; which (an austere censor would say) border on unlaced lasciviousness, and extravagant petulance of action (Paul Hiffernan, The Tuner, No 1). [Spiletta was the name of the character to whom Sga Nicolina Giordani gave such life that the name stuck to her. See Saxe Wyndham, Annals of Covent Garden Theatre.] [A Comic Opera by G. Giordani, Music by G. Cocchi-Nicoll, English Drama, III, p. 349.] Nothing less than the full price will be taken during the Performance. Printed books of the opera sold at the theatre. Tomorrow, Venice Preserved. [Murphy commented in Gray's Inn Journal (22 Dec.): "A great deal of whatever humour this production may contain, is certainly lost to an English audience; and the manner of acting, being a burlesque upon what people here are not very well acquainted with, is not universally felt. But notwithstanding these disadvantages, there is one among them, Sga Nicolina Giordani, who displayed such lively traces of Humour in her countenance, and such pleasing variety of action, and such variety of graceful deportment, that she is generally acknowledged to be, in that Cast of playing, an excellent comic actress."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'amanti Gelosi

Dance: [Unspecified.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Solimano

Dance: Signora Forti, Signora Bonomi, Grimaldi, Signora Lescot

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Mondo Nella Luna

Dance: New DancesDirector of Dances-Gherardi; Dancers-Mlle Asselin, Gherardi, Miss Polly Capitani, Tariot

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Event Comment: Afterpiece: In the Manner it was performed at Stratford. This Ode was as it was perform'd at the Jubilee at Stratford upon Avon Dedicating a Building & Erecting a Statue to Shakespeare it was written by D. G. Esqr. and the Music by Dr Arne Mr G. speaking in this performance is equal to anything he ever did and met with as much applause as his heart could desire. It is a most delightful performance (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Ode

Dance: III: A Dance-Dagueville, Sga Vidini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Daigville, Sga Vidini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: I: A Comic Dance, as17720922

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Cid

Dance: End of Opera: A Grand Serious Ballet, with a Pas de deux, and a+Grand Chaconne-Mlle Heinel, Fierville, etc