Event Comment: Gentlemen are particularly entreated to observe that in consequence of the displeasure expressed by the Subscribers, as well as the Public, at the frequent interruption of the business of the Representation, by the pressure of people on the Stage, the Company will hereafter be admitted behind the Scenes, before
and after the Opera,
and during the intervals between the Opera
and Ballets only; but while the Curtain is up, Gentlemen are earnestly entreated to withdraw from the Stage; otherwise the request of the Nobility
and Gentry, in conformity also to the public opinion, of shutting entirely the doors between the audience part of the Theatre
and the Stage, must at last be compiled with. Those persons entitled to Admissions previous to the year 1789, who may not have an opportunity of sending their Securities to be registered before the opening of the Theatre, are requested to produce them at the Door, as they pass. The Public are entreated to observe that Ladies dressed in Bonnets,
and Gentlemen in Boots, cannot be admitted into the Pit of the Opera. Pit 10s. 6d. Gallery 5s. No Money to be returned. The Doors to be opened at 6:30. To begin at 7:30 [same throughout opera season]. The Nobility are entreated to give direction to their Servants to set down
and take up at the Theatre with the Horse's head toward
Pall Mall. On account of the abuses practised in the names of the Subscribers, it is become necessary to require the production of the Subscription Ticket at the Doors
and the Boxes. At the Chair-door in
Market-Lane, Subscribers only will be admitted. "
Braham sustained his part so well that we trust he will give us an example that shall induce us to chace from an English stage the degrading
and distusting form of a
Castrato" (
Morning Chronicle, 28 Nov.). [The playbill omits
Rovedino, but his performance is reviewed in
True Briton, 28 Nov. The only other male part in the opera is that of
Sandro.
And see 14 Feb. 1797.