Event Comment: [Messrs
Vincent and
Gordon beg
the Nobility and Gentry that intend honouring
them with
their protection
the ensuing season of Opera will pay
their subscriptions to Messrs
Drummonds,
Bankers,
Charing Cross.
The subscription is for 50 nights only. A letter from
Timotheus in
the Public Advertiser: "I repeatedly see in your paper an advertisement from
the managers of
the opera to solicit subscriptions from
the Nobility and Gentry to enable
them to carry it on. Surely, from
the specimin
they have already given us of
their performance in
the serious way, never had managers less claim to
the countenance and favour of
the public. In
the whole company but one voice, and that just tolerable and no more; compared indeed to
the rest a nightengale.
Then, Sir, for
their dancers,
they seem so perfectly so well suited to
the singers, that 't is difficult to pronounce to which of
them
the palm should be allotted. For
the Figurers, one only excepted,
they seem in that article to have paid a due attention to
their want of every Talent requisite, by reducing
them to so small a number that
they look like so many mice scudding about an empty barn. In short, Singers, Dancers, Figurers, Cloaths, Decorations, etc., etc., are all so much of a piece, that if
the directors ei
ther can't or won't engage better performers,
the sooner an end is put to
the exhibition of Operas
the better it will be." See comment in reply, 8 Nov.