Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. A new Comic Opera [usually entitled L'Isola di Alcina]; the Music by Gazzaniga. Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 8, Great Suffolk-street, Hay-market

Event Comment: Not performed [see 20 May]. Public Advertiser, 14 May: "The Managers of the Opera [are] extremely concerned for the Disappointment of last Night.

Event Comment: The Opera having been found too long on the first Representation has since been revised and curtailed to a proper Length

Event Comment: On Account of the Holidays there will be No Opera till the 3d of January

Event Comment: Tomorrow being Twelfth Night there will be no Opera

Event Comment: Benefit for Jermoli. A new Comic Opera; the Poetry by Goldoni; the Finales and Airs by Piccinni and Paisiello. [Performed on 24 Jan. 1786 as Il Marchese Tulipano.] Tickets to be had of Jermoli, No. 29, Cockspur-street, Charing-cross

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Todi. Opera: The Music by Piccinni. Tickets to be had of Sga Todi, No. 12, Haymarket

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brown. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Midas [announced on playbill ff 24 Apr.] cannot be performed on account of Wilson's sudden illness. Tickets delivered for Love Finds the Way will be admitted, that Opera being unavoidably postponed on account of Mrs Farrell's Indisposition. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Brown, No. 10, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #150 18s. 6d. (89.17.6; tickets: 61.1.0) (charge: #67 7s. 6d.)

Event Comment: The last Opera this season

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; CO I, by Charles Dibdin, based on Rose et Colas, by Michel Jean Sedaine]. 3rd piece [1st time; CO I, by Charles Dibdin, based on Les Femmes Vengees, by Michel Jean Sedaine]: With new Scenery [Public Advertiser, 19 Sept.: by Richards] and Decorations. Both the Musical Pieces, with new Overtures, composed by Dibdin. Books of the new Musical Pieces to be had at the Theatre. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon (only) at the Stage Door. No Money to be taken at the Stage Door, nor any Money to be returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 21 Sept.]. Public Advertiser, 18 Sept.: This Afternoon at Three will be published Rose and Colin and The Wives Revenged (each 6d.). "At this season of the year the little company upon the Ton, who are in town, seldom rise from the table till after the beginning of the play; in order, therefore, to obviate the disturbance that the fracas in the boxes usually makes towards the close of the first act, or the beginning of the second, this comic opera [Rose and Colin] was prefaced. It at the same time affords these late comers an opportunity of seeing the play [i.e. the mainpiece] complete" (Town and Country Magazine, Sept. 1778, p.453)

Event Comment: A new Serious Opera [1st time; SER 3, by Pietro Metastasio]. The Music entirely new by Bertoni

Event Comment: On account of the Preparations for the Masqued Ball to-morrow, there will be no Opera this Evening

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Miles Peter Andrews and William Augustus Miles; Larpent MS 485; not published; Synopsis of plot in London Magazine, July 1779, pp. 306-7]: The Airs partly selected from Dibdin, Giordani, Dr Arne, &c. The Overture and New Music composed by Dr Arnold. With New Dresses and Decorations. The Scenes painted by Rooker. Songs of the Opera to be had at the Theatre

Event Comment: The last Opera This Season

Event Comment: The new Operas [see 14 Dec.] which were intended for this Evening are obliged to be postponed till Tuesday

Event Comment: There will be no Opera till Saturday next

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Charles Dibdin: With New Scenes and Dresses. The Overture, and all the Music entirely new, composed by Dibdin. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 18 Jan. 1780: This Afternoon is published The Shepherdess of the Alps (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #158 13s. (156.16.6; 1.16.6)

Event Comment: There will be no Opera this Evening, on account of Her Majesty's Birthday

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by William Augustus Miles]: The music entirely new, composed by Michael Arne. With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 15 Apr. 1780: This Day is published The Artifice (1s.). Receipts: #119 8s. 6d. (71.12.0; 47.1.6; 0.15.0)

Event Comment: A New Comic Opera [1st time; COM 3]. Written by Badini; the music entirely new composed by Bertoni

Event Comment: The Beggar's Opera is obliged to be deferred. [Mrs Hedges is identified in Morning Chronicle, 9 Dec. 1780.

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Beggar's Opera, announced on playbill of 9 June.

Event Comment: A Serious Opera; the Music by Sacchini. [This was Sga Lorenzini's 1st appearance in England.] Public Advertiser, 25 Dec.: The spirit of Vestris seems to diffuse itself throughout the whole Body of Dancers at this Theatre; even the Figurants acquit themselves in a manner that deserves the encouragement of the Public

Event Comment: It not being customary to perform on the Day following Christmas Day, there will be no Opera till Saturday

Event Comment: [On this night Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry and Sga Crespi also danced in 3 ballets at king's. A probable explanation is that the play at dl began three-quarters of an hour earlier than did the opera.] Receipts: #103 4s. (69.16; 31.18; 1.10)