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4116 results for: Keyword - Opera-Office in the Haymarket
We found 2454 matches on Performance Title, 1866 matches on Event Comments, 224 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3326
11 May 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 19 April. Original Weekly Journal, 14 May: His Majesty, the Prince and Princess, and a prodigious Number of the Nobility were at the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Radamistus

3327
30 May 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Dominico Scarlatti, with additional numbers by Thomas Roseingrave. Text by P. A. Rolli.] A new Opera. Pit and Boxes together at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. Stage one Guinea. N.B. When the Tickets are disposed of, no Person will be admitted for Money; places will be kept in the Boxes only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Narcissus

3328
16 June 1720 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit Castrucci, first Violin in the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

3329
05 September 1720 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At John Leigh-Hall Great Theatrical Booth, which was formerly Mr Penkethman's. Mainpiece: A Dramatick Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of The Famous Fryer Bacon; With The Comical Humours Of Justice Want-brains, Hopper The Miller, And His Son Ralph

Song: Mrs Boman

Dance: Italian Shadows-

3330
19 November 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Music by G. Bononcini.] A New Opera. Four Hundred Tickets (for Pit and Boxes) will be deliver'd out, and after they are disposed of, no Person whatsoever will be admitted for Money. Neither Director nor Subscribers will be admitted on the Stage. A proper Officer will attend at each Door, to deliver Every Subscriber his Ticket, without which he will not be admitted. Pit and Boxes at a half guinea. Gallery 5s. The Doors to be open'd at Five a Clock. To Begin exactly at Six. [The Royal Family present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Astartus

3331
23 November 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 19 Nov. Whereas Offence was taken last Saturday at the Opera, to the Misbehaviour of the Upper Gallery: This is to advertise, that unless they behave themselves more quietly and decently for the future, the Director of the Royal Academy of Musick will order that Gallery to be taken away

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Astartus

3332
14 December 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 19 Nov. And whereas several Ladies who had Tickets have been dasappointed of seeing the Opera for want of Room, and others were obliged to stand during the whole Performance, tho's no more Tickets were deliver'd out than usual, and the House will conveniently hold: The Directors think it necessary to declare, that they will discharge any of the Boxkeepers who shall be detected in letting in any Person whatsoever without a Ticket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Astartus

3333
01 February 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Originally set by Signor Orlandini, with some songs composed by Signor Phillipo Amadei.] A new Opera. Admission as 19 Nov. 1720

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsaces; Or, Amore E Maesta

3334
15 April 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Ariosti, Bononcini, Handel. Text by P. A. Rolli.] Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. De Fabrice to Flemming, 21 April (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 126): The Princess of Wales was safely delivered of a son last Saturday. The news was taken to the King by Lord Herbert during...Mutius Scevola, where there was a particularly large audience on account of its being the first performance. The audience celebrated the event with loud applause and huzzas. Each act of this opera is by a different composer, -the first by a certain Pipo, the second by Bononcini, and the third by Hendell, who easily triumphed over the others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

3335
20 May 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli.] A new Opera. Admission as 19 Nov. 1720

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus; Or, Odio Ed Amore

3336
09 December 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Music by G. F. Handel.] A new Opera. Pit and Boxes at a half guinea. And in Regard to the Increase of the Number of Subscribers, no more than Three Hundred and Fifty Tickets will be delivered out. No Tickets will be disposed of at the Theatre, nor any Money taken there but for the Gallery. Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

3337
10 January 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Music by Bononcini.] A new Opera. Admission as 9 Dec. 1721

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Crispus

3338
22 February 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Rolli. Music by Bononcini.] A new Opera. Admission as 9 Dec. 1721

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

3339
07 March 1722 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: By Castrucci, first Violin to the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

3340
26 March 1722 @ Mrs Bellamy's School

Event Comment: Edition of 1722: A Pastoral Opera perform'd on Easter Monday. At the School in Old Boswel-Court, near Clement's Inn. By Daniel Bellamy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Triumphant; Or, The Rival Goddesses

Performance Comment: The Young Ladies of Mrs Bellamy's School; Prologue-; Epilogue-.

3341
23 May 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 9 Dec. 1721. By Reason of the Length of the Days, the Hours for the Operas will be changed from Six to Seven a Clock, at which Time it will begin exactly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

3342
15 January 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. M De Fabrice to Count Flemming, 15 Jan. (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 147): Today is the second performance and there is such a run on it that tickets are already being sold at 2 and 3 guineas which are ordinarily half a guinea. London Journal, 19 Jan.: Last Tuesday being the second Time of Madam Cotzoni's Performance, we hear that Opera Tickets sold that Day and the preceding, at 4 Guineas each

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

3343
09 February 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. Daily Post, 11 Feb.: On Saturday Night last a Disturbance happen'd at the Opera House...occasion'd by a Difference that arose between a Scotch Nobleman and an English Baronet, who were going to decide the same with the Point of the Sword; but the General of the Forces, who was near at hand, being made acquainted with it, very reasonably interposed and put them both under an Arrest by his Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

3344
02 March 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. London Journal, 2 March: The new Opera Tickets are very high, and like to continue so as long as Mrs Cotzoni is so much admired. They are traded in at the other End of the Town, as much as Lottery Tickets are in Exchange-Alley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

3345
14 March 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Dykes and Rudd, Boxkeepers to the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: A Boy and Girl, Scholars to Mr Roussau

3346
02 April 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Daily Journal, 15 April: Paris April 2. The Company belonging to the Italian Opera at London are to come and Act here during the Month of July, and to oblige the Publick with 12 several Representations at the Theatre of the Palace Royal: In Consideration of which 35000 Livres will be given to the five Principal Actors and their Charges defray's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Erminia

3347
06 April 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Original Weekly Journal, 6 April: We are told that the Italian Singers at our Opera, to the Number of five, of whom two are Eunuchs, have obtain Permission from the King of France...to go over thither in July next, for the Theatre, and a Gratuity of 35,000 Livres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Erminia

3348
15 April 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Richard Patrick and John Tomkins, Doorkeepers to the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: Scaramouch-a Boy of Nine Years of Age

3349
22 April 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Peppet and Mrs Bryars, Boxkeepers to the Opera, and Betty Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: James, Mrs Ratcliff

3350
14 May 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. By Reason of the shortness of the Opera, to begin exactly at Eight a-Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius