Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by
Joseph Berington, altered from the same, by
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. MS:
Larpent MS 1041; not published; synopsis of plot in
Morning Herald, 30 Oct. It has hitherto been assumed that this play was altered by
Benjamin Thompson, but "This Tragedy was translated from the
German by the Rev. Jos. Berrington [sic]" (
Kemble Mem.). Dr. Berington's authorship is also referred to in
London Chronicle, 30 Oct. 1794. Thompson's translation was published by
Vernor and
Hood in 1800. Prologue by
Richard Cumberland. Epilogue by
George Colman, ynger (
London Chronicle, 29 Oct.)]: The Dresses, Scenes and Decorations are entirely new. The Scenery in the four first Acts is the work of
Signor Barzago and of his Brother; and in the fifth of
Greenwood, by whom also a new Frontispiece is designed and executed. [
Miss Miller, who had appeared the previous season as a chorus singer, is identified in
European Magazine, Nov. 1794, p. 363.] The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 20 Apr. 1795].
Powell:
Emilia Galotti rehearsed at 10. The New Frontispiece and Stage doors were exhibited for the first Time this Evening. Receipts: #317 19s. 6d. (270.8.6; 46.5.0; 1.6.0)