Event Comment: A Serious Opera in 2 acts [1st time; altered by
Carlo Francesco Badini from
Demetrio, by
Metastasio];
the music by
Gresnick. By
their Majesties' Command no person can be admitted behind
the scenes. Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s.
The Doors to be opened at 6:30. To begin exactly at 7:30 [see 2 June 1787]. Subscriptions are received at Messrs
Ransom, Morland and Hammersley's, Bankers, No. 57,
Pall-mall, who will deliver
the subscription tickets.
The Nobility and Gentry, subscribers to
the Opera-house, are respectfully intreated to send for
them, in order to prevent future mistakes, as nobody can be admitted without producing a ticket. To prevent inconvenience to
the Nobility and Gentry in getting to
their carriages,
they are most respectfully intreated to give positive orders to
their servants to set down and take up with
their horses' heads towards Pall-mall.
The doors in
Market-lane for chairs only. [Synopsis of opera in
Morning Post, 25 Dec.
Mme Perignon and
Goyon were from
the Opera, Paris.] Receipts: #86 11s. 6d. [
These receipts, and those on all o
ther nights throughout
the opera season, represent
the sale of non-subscription tickets. On this night 400 tickets were delivered to
Prendergrass, office-keeper at
the Haymarket pit entrance; of
these he sold 84 at 10s. 6d. (i.e. #44 2s.). 100 were delivered to
Reynolds, office-keeper at
the King's Door pit entrance; he sold 6 at 10s. 6d. (i.e. #3 3s.). 300 were delivered to
Butler, office-keeper of
the 1st Gallery; he sold 112 at 5s. (i.e. #28). 200 were delivered to
Snelson, office-keeper of
the 2nd Gallery; he sold 70 at 3s. (i.e. #10 10s.). "Difference from Gallery to Pit" (i.e. money received from persons who changed
their seats from gallery to pit, 16s. 6d.).
The delivery of 1,000 non-subscription tickets to be disposed of was almost invariably
the case on every night of
the season. If a subscriber's box was released for sale it could be had for 2 guineas (see 6 Feb. 1787).