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5842 results for: Keyword - Opera-House in the Hay-Market
We found 3321 matches on Event Comments, 2723 matches on Performance Title, 341 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5301
13 April 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [By D. Loeli and G. Boldoni. Music by F. Campi.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Honorius

5302
29 April 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Norsa. Tickets at her Lodgings, Nassau Street, near Gerrard Street. Receipts: money #12 14s. 6d.; tickets #101 9s. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 29 April: We hear Mr Handel has compos'd a new Opera, on the Occasion of his Royal Highness's Marriage to the Prince[S] of Saxe Gotha, and as the Wedding was solemnized sooner than was expected, great Numbers of Artificers, as Carpenters, Painters, Engineers, &c. are employed to forward the same

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Two Pierrots by Lalauze and Nivelon. The Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Tench, Desse, Delagarde, Livier, Richardson

Performance Comment: The Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Tench, Desse, Delagarde, Livier, Richardson .

5303
05 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 6 May: Last Night the Opera of Ariodante was performed [at CG], in which Signior Gieacchino Conti Ghizziello made his first Appearance, and met with an uncommon Reception

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariodante

5304
09 June 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: See a letter by Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, 11 June, for a description of scenes in this opera.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Atalanta

5305
22 June 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The King again granted #1,000 to the Opera in the Haymarket. See Calendar of Treasury Papers, 1735-1738, p. 257

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orpheus

5306
14 July 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce. Afterpiece: A New Farcical Ballad-Opera. [Author not known. Apparently not published. Tickets for Rowney also taken.] 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Disappointment; or, The Miser Outwitted

5307
21 September 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With all the Scenes, Habits, and Decorations proper to the Play. Afterpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar: With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; II: Double Jealousy, as17360907

Music: Select Pieces-

5308
19 November 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear. [For a letter by Catherine Clive on th role of Polly in The Beggar's Opera, see London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 19 Nov.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: In II: Muilment

Music: Select Pieces-

5309
23 November 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Compos'd by Signior Hasse. [Text by Metastasio.] Pit and Boxes at half a guineas. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. [Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

5310
01 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 2 Dec.: Signora Strada was taken violently ill of a Fever of sore Throat, so that the Opera of Porus could not be perform'd as was intended; which sudden Indisposition put it out of the Power of the Directors to give earlier Notice to the Town of their Disappointment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

5311
08 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. Mrs Pendarves to Mrs Ann Granville, 8 Jan.: I was this morning regaled with Mr Handel's new opera called Arminius, it was rehearsed at Covent Garden.--Delany, Autobiography, I, 587

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

5312
12 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text possibly by A. Salvi. Music by Handel. Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminius

5313
07 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: In the morning Handel's new opera, Justin, was rehearsed. [See Egmont, Diary, II, 342.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

5314
12 February 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Giovanni Battist Pescetti.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrius

Afterpiece Title: Il Giocatore

5315
16 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Alteration of libretto by N. Beregani. Music by Handel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Justin

5316
28 February 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author, who is under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: A new Tragedy [by Matthew Gardiner]. Afterpiece: A new Ballad Opera, by the same Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Parthian Hero; Or, Love In Distress

Related Works
Related Work: The Parthian Hero; or, Love in Distress Author(s): Matthew Gardiner

Afterpiece Title: The Sharpers; or, The Female Match-Maker

Related Works
Related Work: The Sharpers; or, The Female Match-Maker Author(s): Matthew Gardiner

5317
12 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Frances Veracini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Titus

5318
13 April 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Giovanni Alberto Ristori. Music arranged by Handel. Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido

5319
25 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 26 April: Signior Rolli's new Opera Call'd Sabrina, was rehears'd Yesterday Morning in Mr Heidegger's Apartments, to a numerous and very splendid Audience of Ladies and Gentlemen. The Signora Antonia Maria Marchesini, lately arriv'd from Italy, perform'd in it with universal Approbation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sabrina

5320
26 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Text by Paul Rolli.] Daily Advertiser, 26 April: The Signora Marchesini's Songs are distributed after such a judicious Manner by the ingenious Author, so as to rise gradually upon the Audience in each Act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sabrina

5321
18 May 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Text by A. Salvi. Music by Handel.] By His Majesty's Command, [Their Majesties expect to attend.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Berenice

5322
24 May 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Composed by Egidio Duni Nepolitano.] 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

5323
07 September 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of his Excellency Admiral Perez Bashaw, and Ambassador Extraordinary from the Emperor of Morocco. Written by Shakespear. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: Othello-Stephens; Iago-Rosco; Brabantio-Davis; Roderigo-Yates; Cassio-Stevens; Montano-Ryan; Desdemona-Mrs Stevens; Emilia-Mrs Egerton.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Stephens

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Nicholas(late Miss Warren) being the first time of her appearance on the stage since her performing...Polly in the Beggar's Opera eight years ago

Performance Comment: ..Polly in the Beggar's Opera eight years ago.

5324
29 October 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Salvi. Altered by Rolli.] Pit and Boxes together at half a guinea each. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. [Their Majesties present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsaces

5325
28 January 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Giovanni Battist Pescetti.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Conquista Del Vello D'oro