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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Opera Milan"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Opera Milan")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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3692 results for: Keyword - Opera, Milan
We found 2385 matches on Performance Title, 1494 matches on Event Comments, 213 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3351
26 November 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Opera Almena oblig'd to be deferr'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: II: The Medley, as17641120

3352
05 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: As17641123

3353
13 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of Opera sold at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian Outwitted

Dance: As17641212

3354
14 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of Opera sold at Theatre. Composer's Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian Outwitted

Dance: As17641212

3355
15 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of opera sold at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian Outwitted

Dance: As17641212

3356
17 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of Opera sold at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian Outwitted

Dance: As17641212

3357
18 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of Opera to be had at Theatre. Composer's Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian Outwitted

Dance: As17641212

3358
01 January 1765 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. Music by different masters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Berenice

Dance: Between the acts

3359
04 January 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: The Tyrolese Peasants, as17641212; II: Rural Love, as17641212

3360
11 January 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: La Femme Maitresse, as17641004; II: Rural Love, as17641212

3361
19 January 1765 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: With alterations and Additions to the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Berenice

Dance: As17650105

3362
26 January 1765 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Music entirely new by Giovanni Christiano Bach [1765 libretto]. By Command of their Majesties. A new Opera by Mr Back [sic]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano In Syria

Dance: Between the acts: As17650105; New Dances-

3363
28 March 1765 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. By Particular Desire. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. The House will be doubly Illuminated for the Upper Boxes and Upper Gallery to read their Books. Books of the opera to be had at the Theatre. Nor will any Pit Tickets be admitted into the Gallery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigonus

Dance: As17650105

3364
15 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Part of the Pit will be railed into the boxes. Ladies and Gentlemen, who have taken Boxes, or Places, before Miss Brent's Benefit was advertised, are requested to send for their tickets, otherwise such Boxes or Places cannot be insured. Tickets deliver'd for the 21st of March will be taken. No Person can be admitted behind the Scenes, Nor any money retuned after the curtain is drawn up. Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre. Tickets to be had of Miss Brent, in the Piazza, next the Church, Covent Garden; and of Mr Sarjant, at the stage-door of the theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015

3365
22 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. Ladies send serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of Opera at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003; II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001

3366
27 April 1765 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera, the Musick by Dr Arne. [A general rehearsal had been put on for subscribers on Friday.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Dance: As17650105

3367
01 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. Send Serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of the Opera at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003; II: Rural Love, as17641215

3368
08 June 1765 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Being the last Subscribers Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

Dance: As17650105

3369
12 October 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: Lord Aimworth-Mattocks; Sycamore-Shuter; Giles-Beard; Mervin-Baker; Fairfield-Gibson; Ralph-Dibdin; Lady Sycamore-Mrs Pitt; Theodosia-Mrs Baker; Fanny-Miss Poitier; Patty-Mrs Mattocks; Dancing, viz.: End of Act I, a Dance Incidental to the Opera-Fichar, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford.
Cast
Role: a Dance Incidental to the Opera Actor: Fichar, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford.

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: II: The Garland, as17651003

3370
03 December 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [R$Ross this month wrote to Colman (Harvard Theatre Collection A.L.S.) inquiring about an intended new theatre at Bath, and opened his heart as follows: "My present situation is most irksome to me and must be to any gentleman or man of merit in his profession to have such an ignorant and now ill-bred fellow as Beard? presume to conduct the business of a theatre Royal, of which he is totally ignorant, and oblig'd to apply to the great Gibson, who naturally wishes to lower every man to his own standard, while the other despises every degree of merit that is not compris'd in Sol fa and wishes the theatre only to substitute as an Opera house." Ross wanted to be nominated for the manager's postition in the new theatre at Bath. N.B. He had already acted 23 times this season in his best parts.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

3371
03 December 1765 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A favorite serious Opera. The music by several celebrated Composers. [Edition of 1765 lists music by Cocchi. Director of Ballet-Gallini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Clemenza Di Tito

3372
18 January 1766 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The last time of performing this Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Clemenza Di Tito

3373
21 January 1766 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new serious Opera. The Music entirely new-Signior Vento. With new Dances, new Cloaths and Decoration

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sofonisba

3374
13 March 1766 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Elisi. With Several alterations of new and favourite songs. This Opera will be one half an hour shorter than when it first came out, which renders the former books unserviceable. Sg Elisi has therefore ordered new books to be printed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eumene

Music: A new Overture-Galuppi

Dance: II: Minuet, Louvre-Sodi, Miss Capitani

Song: new Duetto, Cananetto, accompanied by Recitations-Sg DeMajo

3375
04 April 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. [The Jester's Magazine, or Monthly Merry Maker included the following verses by "Bumpkin" from the Upper Gallery, "On Seeing Midas"]: @To Midas invited@And greatly delighted,@They all sung and acted so clever;@That in Rapture I cry'd, a,@To the folk on each side, a,@Burlettas and sing-song forever!@For tho' Justice Midas@Turns out but a Try'd Ass,@In preferring horse Pan to Apollo@The Airs are so pretty,@And so sweet the Duetti,@They beat all your Operas hollow.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: IV: Rural Love, as17651115