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Event Comment: NNeville MS Diary: To Ranelagh to hear a grand Jubilee Entertainment; it is the most elegant public room in the world and must give foreigners a high idea of the riches of our nation. It is circular and the fireplace is under a circular Portico in the middle, round which are tables at which the company are served with tea and coffee, and there are two sets of boxes at the side one above another for the same purpose. The landing room from the river which projects a little into the water commands a fine view of the river and country...Saw the Tripoline ambassador in the dress of his country. Took notice of a Miss Spencer and a Miss Johnson, two pretty ladies of the town, the latter had one of the prettiest faces I ever saw. Brunswick, Cumberland...Tripolian Ambassador...Miss Spencer and a Miss Johnson, two pretty ladies of ye town... were there...Began to use an Opera glass

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Song: Coronation Anthem-

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Being the last time of performing this opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Conquesta Del Messico

Event Comment: The 25th Night. By the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality who were Subscribers in the Operas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years. [See 24 Jan. 1758.] Prologue written by Paul Whitehead. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjant (only) at the Stage-Door. No persons can be admitted behind scenes, nor any Money returned after curtain is drawn up. To begin exactly at 6 o'clock. [Customary note in succeeding bills.] Receipps: #190 14s. (Account Book). @The New Occasional Prologue@As when the merchant to increase his store@For Dubious seas, advent'rous quits the shore;@Still anxious for his freight, he trembling sees@Rocks in each buoy, and tempest in each breeze@The curling wave to mountain billow swells,@And every cloud a fancied storm fortells:@Thus rashly launch'd on this Theatric main,@Our All on board, each phantom gives Us pain;@The Aatcall's note seems thunder in our ears,@And every Hiss a hurricane appears;@In Journal Squibs we lightning's blast espy,@And meteors blaze in every Critic's eye.@Spite of these terrors, still come hopes we view,@Hopes, ne'er can fail us--since they're plac'd--in you.@Your breath the gale, our voyage is secure,@And safe the venture which your smiles insure;@Though weak his skill, th' adventurer must succeed,@Where Candour takes th' endeavor for the deed.@For Brentford's state, two kings could once suffice;@In ours, behold! four kings of Brentford rise;@All smelling to one nosegay's od'rous savor@The balmy nosegay of--the Public favor.@From hence alone, our royal funds we draw,@Your pleasure our support, your will our law.@While such our government, we hope you'll own us;@But should we ever Tyrant prove--dethrone us.@Like Brother Monarchs, who, to coax the nation@Began their reign, with some fair proclamation,@We too should talk at least--of reformation;@Declare that during our imperial sway,@No bard shall mourn his long-neglected Play;@But then the play must have some wit, some spirit,@And We allow'd sole umpires of its merit.@For those deep sages of the judging Pit,@Whose taste is too refin'd for modern wit,@From Rome's great Theatre we'll cull the piece,@And plant on Britain's stage the flow'rs of Greece.@If some there are, our British Bards can please,@Who taste the ancient wit of ancient days,@Be our's to save, from Time's devouring womb,@Their works, and snatch their laurels from the tomb.@For you, ye Fair, who sprightlier scenes may chuse,@Where Music decks in all her airs the Muse,@Gay Opera shall all its charms dispense,@Yet boast no tuneful triumph over sense;@The nobler Bard shall still assert his right,@Nor Handel rob a Shakespear of his night,@To greet the mortal brethren of our skies [upper galleries]@Here all the Gods of Pantomime shall rise:@Yet midst the pomp and magic of machines,@Some plot may mark the meaning of our scenes;@Scenes which were held, in good King Rich's days,@By sages, no bad epilogues to plays.@If terms like these your suffrage can engage,@To fix our mimic empire of the stage;@Confirm our title in your fair opinions,@And crowd each night to people our dominions.@--(Poems and Miscelaneous Compositions, Ed. Capt. Edward Thompson, 1777) Covent Garden opened with the Rehearsal with alterations. I was in the Pit. Powell, from Drury Lane, one of the new managers who have bought the patent from Rich's heirs, spoke an occasional Prologue. Shuter did Bayes pretty much to my liking, adding many crochets of his own.... Entertainment The Mock Doctor,...Young Jasper pretty well by one Massey, being his first appearance on that stage (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Shuter; Smith-Clarke; Johnson-Dyer; Others-Dunstall, Gibson, Perry, Davis, Dibdin, DuBellamy, Gardner, Bennet, Morgan, Barrington, R. Smith, Holtom, Cushing, Legg, Redman, Wignell, Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Miss Pearce, Miss Mills, Miss Ford; With additional Reinforcements of Mr Bayes's New Rais'd Troops-; a New Occasional Prologue-.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: A new comic Opera--Music-Piccini. New Dances, Cloaths, Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Schiava

Event Comment: The Comic opera is oblig'd to be deferred on account of the sudden indisposition of Sga Guadagni

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tigrane

Event Comment: The Managers beg leave to acquaint the Nobility and Gentry that on account of the sudden Indisposition of the principal Singers they cannot perform an opera this evening

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: A new serious Opera, Music entirely new-Guglielmi, a Neopolitan Master

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ifigenia In Aulide

Event Comment: Mainpiece: (Never Performed) a Comic Opera by Isacc Bickerstaffe. [The Theatrical Monitor, No XIV (27 Feb.), remarked: We were scraped, squalled and clapped, out of our senses at Covent Garden....It was thought there were no less than 500 orders in the house. O Shameful! Why are not a generous audience left to judge of a piece, Without this forc'd imposition." N.B. Hardly possible for "500 orders" to have filled the house which took in #233 19s.] Receipts: #233 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: End: a Hornpipe-Miss Ford, for 3rd time

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera, Music entirely new by Felice Alessandri

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Moglie Fedele

Event Comment: A new comic Opera, composed by Guglielmi. New Dances, Cloaths, and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Ratto De La Sposa

Event Comment: A new comic Opera. Music entirely new-Pietro Guglielmi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Ridicoli, Tornati In Italia

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing the opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing this opera this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Ridicoli

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Opera of Two Acts [by Robert Dossie]. Music by Rush

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Statesman Foil'd

Dance: As17680530

Event Comment: Benefit for the composer of the opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Matthew Mug Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Statesman Foil'd

Dance: As17680530

Event Comment: This comic opera of two acts [Padlock] was written by Mr Bickerstaffe and is a very compleat, pretty piece,--the music very striking.--Mrs Dorman was hissed at first, but the piece went off very well, and much applauded (Hopkins Diary). New Scenes, Dresses, Music and other Decorations. Doors opened at half past 4. Play to begin exactly at 6 o'clock. [A three column retelling of the plot of the padlock appeared in Lloyd's Evening Post, for Oct. 5-7.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 1 May 1765.] Books of the opera to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #213 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: A Comic Dance, as17681007; II: New Grand Ballet, The Tartars, as17681004

Event Comment: MMr Aickin hissed for being imperfect.--This night was introduced at the end of the Pantomime a Grand Masquerade in imitation of that given by the King of Denmark at the Opera House, and lighted up after the same manner--Every performer belonging to the House was on, even Mr Garrick and his brother.--The dresses were very elegant, and the whole very striking,--and gave pleasure to the Audience (Hopkins Diary). [The masquerade remained a part of Queen Mab and was also attached to Fortunatus. It evoked the following verse in Lloyd's Evening Post, Nov. 21-23]: One night last week a merry blade,@Who'd seen the Royal Masquerade,@And paid ten guineas for admission,@Began to damn the imposition;@His friend reply'd, "You may complain,@For I last Night at Drury Lane,@Saw full as much for eighteen pence,@As you got at such vast expence."-- G.S. C y

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Neville MS Diary: Saw Douglas by a Mr Brereton, being his 3rd appearance. He is a pretty figure, but wants lemon in his voice, as Mr Garrick calls it. Lady Randolph by Mrs Barry. The Entertainment was Queen Mab, with a new scene representing the late Masquerade at the Opera House, with all the extravagances and intrigue which it occasions. Was very much squeezed in the Pit. Wish I was settled in th country at a distance from these crowded diversions

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Keen

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17681109 (Public Advertiser). [The playbill is shortened by omission of Puck and Queen Mab. Silvio-Wright instead of Baddeley.]
Event Comment: The comic opera Il Viaggiatori which was intended for this day is oblig'd to be deferred on account of the indisposition of a principal performer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Amanti Ridicoli

Event Comment: A new comic opera, Musick entirely new by Pietro Guglielmi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Viaggiatori Tornati

Event Comment: A new comic opera. Music by Piccini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Donne Vendicate

Event Comment: Benefit for Author of Zingis. Damon and Phillida was altered into a Comic opera of two acts, and new musick with the addition of some new songs and choruses--the Musick composed by Mr Dibdin,--went off very dull, and some hisses--the muscik not vastly liked (Hopkins Diary). New Overture. Both Zingis and Damon and Phillida published at 1s. 6d. and 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zingis

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Event Comment: A comic opera by Fishietti. By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Mercato De Malmantile