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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: [The playbill for 7 June announces The Beggar's Opera, but on this night the theatre was dark- perhaps because of the riots referred to above.]
Event Comment: The last Opera this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Quinto Fabio

Dance: End I: The Rural Sports, as17800527; End II: Il Filosofo, as17800509; To conclude with: New Allemande-; End Opera: New Serious Ballet, as17800516

Song: As 22 Jan

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera; the Music by several celebrated Composers [chiefly Scolari], and conducted Ii.e. arranged] by Bianchi. With new Scenes, new Dresses and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 27 Nov.: L'Arcifanfano was performed for the first time on Saturday, and universally disapproved of. It will not be repeated Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. By Their Majesties' Command, no Person can be admitted behind the Scenes. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season, except for L'Omaggio (see 5 June 1781)]. 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 Door in Market Lane for Chairs only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'arcifanfano

Dance: End I: New Ballet-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Sga Crespi; End II: new ballet, composed by Simonet, The Fortunate Escape-Slingsby, Sga Tantini, Sga Crespi, Mme Simonet; End Opera: new ballet, composed by Simonet, The Country Gallant-, in which Mme Simonet, will dance in Men's Cloaths with Sga Tantini, Sga Crespi, Sg and Sga Zuchelli

Event Comment: A Comic Opera; the Music by Traetta, and conducted by Bianchi. [And see 20 May 1777.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Serve Rivali

Dance: End I: The Fortunate Escape, as17801216; End II: Grand Serious Ballet, as17801216; Grand Chaconne, as17801216; End Opera: Les Amans Surpris, as17801216, but Mme Simonet

Event Comment: Benefit for Roncaglia. Opera: The Music composed by Gretry. Tickets to be had of Roncaglia, No. 2, Hay-market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zemira And Azor

Dance: End I: The Pert Country Maid, as17810113; End II: The Fortunate Escape, as17801216; End Opera: Les Amans Surpris, as17801216

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Gherardi, though very ill, yet being unwilling to disappoint the Nobility, Gentry and Public who intend honouring Sga Sestini with their presence at her Benefit this Evening, has undertaken to perform in the best manner he is able, and hopes for the indulgence of the Audience. Opera: The music composed by Paisiello

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fraschetana

Dance: End I: The Fortunate Escape, as17801216; End II: Grand Serious Ballet, as17810315Pas@Solo, as17810315Pas de Deux, as17810315Grand Chaconne, as17810315End Opera: Les Amans Surpris, as17801216

Song: Act II: the favourite song in Il Barone di Torre Forte-Sga Sestini

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Now 1st performed under the title of The Lady's Opera, with a new Introduction. [Miss Catley had acted Macheath at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, in the season 1764-65. MS of Introduction (consisting of a dialogue between A and B): Larpent MS 572.] Receipts: #171 18s. 6d. (170/9/0; 1/9/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by Miss Besford

Event Comment: A new Serious Opera [1st time; ser 2, by Giovanni de Gamerra]: the Music selected from the most eminent Composers [Sarti, Anfossi, Bertoni, Bianchi], under the direction of Bertoni. "The airs which Pacchierotti has chosen for himself have served to disclose in that excellent performer such powers as we had not yet discovered, uniting into one the delicate Soprano to the more majestic and manly strains of the most accomplished Contralto" (Public Advertiser, 23 Nov.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medonte

Dance: End of Act I New Divertisement, as17821102, but Sga Crespi in place of Sga Sala, and added: Passacaille, as17821109; End of Opera Apelles and Campaspe, as17821102, but added: Sga Crespi

Event Comment: [Me Rossi was from the Opera, Naples.] "Her very first step proclaimed her a perfect mistress in the art of pantomime. Her dress was a manteau a la reine, lately imported by our travelling milliners. The body, bones and trimming are puce, the sleeves and lower part of the garment a white gawze. Her partner, Lepicq, dressed in the same uniform, discovered such profusion of talents, if we may be allowed the expression, as 'beggar all praise'" (Public Advertiser, 3 Dec)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medonte

Dance: End of Act I Apelles and Campaspe, as17821102; End of Opera New Divertisement, as17821102, but Sga Crespi in place of Sga Sala, and added: Pas de Deux by Lepicq and Mme Rossi (1st appearance in this country)

Event Comment: Benefit for Lepicq. Tickets to be had of Lepicq, No. 9, facing the Opera-house, Hay-market. [Public Advertiser, 14 Mar.: La Bigueule composed by Lepicq; music by Borghi.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Trionfo Della Costanza

Dance: End of Act I an entirely new Divertissement, composed by Lepicq, li Riposo del Campo; or, The Recreations of the Camp, in which a Pas de Deux, La Recrue par Force; or, The Kidnappers, by Lepicq and Mme Rossi, and the other characters by Slingsby, Henry, Zuchelli, Sga Crespi, Mlle Theodore; End of Opera a new Ballet (1st time), founded on the Fairy Tale by Voltaire, La Begueule; or, She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, in which a Minuet by Lepicq and Mme Rossi, and the other characters by Slingsby, Henry, Degville Jun., Sga Crespi, Mlle Theodore, Mme Simonet

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Rossi. Tickets to be had of Mme Rossi, No. 80, near the Opera-house, Hay-market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Dance: End of Act II Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830128, but added: Mme Simonet, and in which the following Novelties: Sequedilla by Lepicq and Mme Rossi; Fandango by Mme Rossi alone; Pas de Deux by Mme Rossi, in Man's Cloaths, and Mlle Baccelli; End of Opera an entire new Ballet, composed by Lepicq, The Amours of Alexander and Roxana (the music entirely new composed by Barthelemon), by Mlle Baccelli (with 2 Pas Seals), Slingsby, Lepicq, Henry, Zuchelli, Sga Crespi, Miss Simonet, Mlle Theodore

Song: New set of Airs, as17830306athi

Event Comment: A New Comic Opera in 2 acts; The Music [by Lodovico Caruso] under the direction of Anfossi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'albergatrice Vivace

Dance: End of Act I The Pastimes of Terpsycore, as17831206; End of Opera a New Divertisement, in which a Pas de Deux by Vestris [fun.] and Mme Theodore, and a Pas de Trots by Lepicq, Slingsby, Mme Rossi

Event Comment: An entirely new Comic Opera in 2 Acts [1st performed at Venice, 1776; and see 1 Feb. 1794]. The Music by Sarti; under the direction of Rauzzini. With new Scenes and Decorations, designed and painted by Novosielski

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Gelosie Villane

Dance: End of Act I Le Reveil du Bonheur, as17840203; End of Opera Divertissement, in which a Pas de Deux, as17831216, and to conclude with the favourite Caledonian Pas de Trois, as17831129

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Delpini. The Band from the Opera-house. Play: In 3 acts [i.e. reduced from the original 5]. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: End of Act I a new pantomimical, operatical, farcical interlude, The Peasant Metamorphosed; or, Delpini's Voyage from Dublin in an Air Balloon, in which Delpini will introduce a specimen of singing in French, Italian and English, and which will conclude with a new Hornpipe by the celebrated Blake (by permission of the Managers of the Opera-house; his 1st appearance on that stage); End of Act II a comic pantomime dance, The Country Squabble, by Delpini, Mrs Dagville, Miss Parish, Duquesney Jun.; End of play a new pantomimical dance, The Rival Clowns, by Delpini, Blake, &c, in which the famous rondo of Orpheo, in Italian, by Delpini, and to conclude with an Allemande in a new comic stile

Song: End of Acts II and III, by a Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified])

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Rachele Dorta. Boxes to be had by applying to No. 80, near the Opera-house, Hay-market. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Sga Rachele Dorta, No. 72, west side of the Hay-market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: End of Act I Le Reveil du Bonheur, as17840513; End of Opera Le Deserteur, as17840608

Event Comment: An entirely new Comic Opera, in 2 acts [by Girolamo Tonioli]; the Music entirely new, by Anfossi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Gemelle

Dance: End of Act I New Divertissement, as17840424; End of Opera Le Deserteur, as17840608

Event Comment: On account of the sudden Indisposition of Sga Ferrarese the new Serious Opera [Demetrio, announced in Public Advertiser, 31 Dec. 1784] is unavoidably postponed [see 8 Jan.]. 2nd dance: With several new Airs composed by Barthelemon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Curioso Indiscreto

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement, as17841218; End of Opera Le Tuteur Trompe, with the Fandango, by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Frederic, Zuchelli, Mme Bithmer, Henry, Nivelon, Mlle Dorival

Event Comment: A Comic Opera, with Alterations and entirely new Airs composed by Anfossi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Babbini (1st appearance in the Comic), Morigi, Schinotti, Tasca; Sga Schinotti, Sga Catenacci, Sga Pollone, Sga Ferrarese (1st appearance in the Comic). [Cast from libretto Q. Jarvis, 1785): Giannetto-Babbini; Patterio-Morigi; Pasquino-Schinotti; Don Gastone-Tasca; Isabella-Sga Schinotti; Lauretta-Sga Pollone; Bettina-Sga Ferrarese. The listing of Sga Catenacci appears to be a misprint; in this opera there are only 3 female parts. And see17850614]. in this opera there are only 3 female parts. And see17850614].

Dance: End of Act i Divertissement, as17850224; End of Opera Don Juan, as17850407

Event Comment: The Subscription being at an end for this Season [see 14 June] those Subscribers who wish to retain the use of their Boxes for the following Nights may have them kept by sending their Commands on Tuesdays and Saturdays in the Forenoon to P. MacMahon, No. 77, next door to the Opera House, Haymarket, where Orders (in Writing) for the ensuing Season will be received

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I an entirely New Divertissement (1st time; composed by Simonet) by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Sg and Sga Angiolini, Zuchelli, Mme Bithmer, Duquesney, Miss Harvey, Frederic, Nivelon, Mlle Dorival; End of Opera The Deserter, as17850614

Event Comment: The last Time of performing this Season. [On 8 July Public Advertiser announces for 9 July I Viaggiatori Felici, by Command of Their Majesties, but on 9 July carries the statement, "There will be No Opera this Evening." The reason for the cancellation is not explained.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I Robin Gray, as17850628 End of Opera The Deserter, as17850111

Event Comment: A Comic Opera (1st time [in London; 1st performed at Venice, 1778]); the music entirely new by Salieri [with additions by Anfossi, Sacchini, Paisiello, Mazzoni, J. Mazzinghi]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scuola De Gelosi

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement Villageois, as17860218; End of Opera a New Divertissement (composed by Giroux) by Vestris, Sga Carolina, Sga Crespi, Henry, Marseilles, Duquesney Jun., the two Mlles Simonet, Mlle Mozon, Fabiani (1st King's appearance in England)

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. A Comic Opera; the Music by Anfossi. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 38, Mount-street, Berkeleysquare

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici; Or, The Happy Travellers

Dance: End of Act I New Divertissement, as17860311but omitted: Mlle Mozon, Fabiani; End of Opera Divertissement Villageois, as17860218, but omitted: Mlle Mozon

Song: Sga Sestini will introduce some favourite songs

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Mara. Tickets to be had of Mme Mara, No. 24, Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square. Opera: With the last Scene new

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone Abbandonata

Dance: End of Act I New Divertissement, as17860311End of Opera L'Amour Jardinier, as17860401, but added: Miss Hervey, and L'Amour-Miss De Camp

Song: In the beginning of the 2nd act a Bravura Song by Mme Mara

Event Comment: Benefit for Nix, Mrs Hedges & Miss Barnes. [As mainpiece the playbill announces The School for Scandal, but "Smith having an inflammation in his eyes, and Aickin being suddenly laid up with the gout, the play was obliged to be changed [to] The Beggar's Opera" (Morning Herald, 25 May).] Morning Chronicle, 22 May: Tickets to be had of Nix, No. 21, Crown-court, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden; of Mrs Hedges, No. 168, opposite New Bondstreet, Piccadilly; of Miss Barnes, at Cateman's, No. 52, Drury Lane. Receipts: #300 0s. 6d. (60/10/0; 19/13/6; 2/0/0; tickets: 217/17/0) (charge: #108 8s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17860502

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Sweet, O sweet!; End of Act II Niddity Nod; End of Act IV a favourite Hunting Song, all three by Miss Barnes [the 3rd song omitted?, i.e. mainpiece has only 3 acts]

Event Comment: A Serious Opera in 2 acts [1st time; by Carlo Francesco Badini]; the music entirely new by Venanzio Rauzzini. Receipts: #178 16s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Vestale; O Sia, L'amore Protetto Dal Cielo

Dance: End I: Divertissement, as17870428; End Opera: Sylvie, as17870322but Mlle _Mozon