Event Comment: A
new Comic Opera;
the music entirely by
Paisiello [performed at
the Pantheon, 14 May 1791, as
La Molinarella].
Bianchi and
Martini [i.e.
Martin y Soler] are both engaged as composers to this
Theatre, and will each preside at
the harpsichord
the three first nights of every
new Opera of
their composition. Pit 10s. 6d. Gallery 5s. No Money to be returned.
The Doors to be opened at 6:30. To begin at 7:30 [see 30 Apr. 1795].
The Nobility are intreated to give directions to
their servants to set down and take up at
the Theatre, with horses' heads towards
Pall Mall. On account of abuses practised in
the names of
the Subscribers it is become necessary to require
the production of
the Subscription Tickets both at
the doors and
the Boxes, At
the Chair-door in
Market-lane Subscribers only will be admitted. "
The Pantomime is too much in
the gaudy stile of
Italy, and even in this respect
the ballet-master is not well seconded by
the machinist;
the decorations were unfinished, and
the scenes clumsily shifted...We were sorry to find that
the new and superb room, which
the proprietor was encouraged to build, and Which was opened in its unfinished state last year, is now entirely shut up, through
the cabal of some few of
the subscribers who refuse a miserable guinea for its illumination.
The inconvenience of getting away from
the Theatre will consequently be severely felt by
the Beau Monde" (
Morning Chronicle, 8 Dec.)