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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone Abbandonata

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement by Vestris, Henry, Duquesney [Jun.], the two Mlles Simonet, Mlle Mozon, &c.; End of Opera Divertissement Villageois, as17860218

Performance Comment: ], the two Mlles Simonet, Mlle Mozon, &c.; End of Opera Divertissement Villageois, as17860218.
Cast
Role: Thetis Actor: Mlle Mozon.
Event Comment: The New Opera, called The Peruvian [announced on playbill of 14 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Johnstone's Indisposition. [Afterpiece in place of The Country Wife, also announced on same playbill.] Receipts: #173 14s. (171/12; 2/2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: St

Dance: As17860213

Event Comment: On account of Babbini's Indisposition the Serious Opera [Perseo, announced in Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.] is postponed till Saturday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scuola De Gelosi

Dance: As17860311hroughout

Cast
Role: Thetis Actor: Mlle Mozon.
Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Ferrarese del Bene. A Serious Opera [1st time; SER 2, by Pietro Giovannini]; the Music entirely new by Cherubini. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, to be had of Sga Ferrarese del Bene, No. 232, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Giulio Sabino

Dance: As17860311hroughout

Cast
Role: Thetis Actor: Mlle Mozon.
Event Comment: A new Serious Opera [1st time; SER 2, librettist unknown; a pasticcio]; the Music by Tarchi [who wrote Rubinelli's part, and by Anfossi, Cherubini, Piccinni]. "Rubinelli is a musician of the first class . . . His voice and his science, though both pre-eminent, are never forced forward beyond their proper rank, which, in a musician, is the rank of subserviency to the feelings. The musician that is not felt is no musician" (Public Advertiser, 6 May)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Dance: As17860427 throughout

Cast
Role: Thetis Actor: Mlle Mozon.
Event Comment: A new Comic Opera [1st time; COM 2], written by Charles Francis Badini, and set to music by Pasquale Anfossi. "The Author has . . . struck out ideas fit to excite the utmost powers of harmony. We do not think that he has been sufficiently seconded by Signor Anfossi. The music evidently labours under a tedious monotony" (General Advertiser, 22 May)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'inglese In Italia

Dance: As17860516 throughout

Cast
Role: Thetis Actor: Mlle Mozon.
Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Dance: End of Act I Les Deux Solitaires (composed by Giroux) by Vestris, Fabiani, Mlle Mozon, Henry, Mlle Crespi, Miss Hervey, Duquesney Dun.], the two Mlles Simonet, Mlle Baccelli; End of Opera La Fete Mariu, as17860516

Performance Comment: ], the two Mlles Simonet, Mlle Baccelli; End of Opera La Fete Mariu, as17860516 .
Cast
Role: Thetis Actor: Mlle Mozon.
Event Comment: Benefit for Babbini. A Serious Opera [1st time; ser 3, by Giovanni de Gamerra]; the Music entirely new by Michele Mortellari. Public Advertiser, 23 May: Tickets to be had of Babbini, No. 17, Great Pulteney-street, Goldensquare

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Armida

Dance: As17860523 throughout

Cast
Role: Thetis Actor: Mlle Mozon.
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Leonard Macnally, adapted from the same, by Michel Jean Sedaine. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of plot in Morning Chronicle, 17 Oct. For text of abridged version see 21 Oct.]: Taken from the celebrated French Opera of that Name. With the original Overture, Airs, Duetts, Trios, Chorusses and Finale, by the celebrated Gretry. To which are added Compositions by the following Masters; Anfossi, Bertoni, Duni, David, Rizzio, Carolan, Tenducci, and Shield. With new Dresses, Scenery and other Decorations. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [The printed score (Longman & Broderip, c. 1786) indicates that the music was adapted by Shield; it does not refer to Duni, Rizzio or Tenducci, but includes Philip Hayes and John Wilson. After the 1st 4 performances the mainpiece was reduced to an afterpiece of 3 short acts; see 21 Oct.] Account-Book, 28 Nov.: Paid Macnally in full for Coeur de Lion #121 18s. 6d. "Inchbald we thought [was] rather hardly dealt with. His voice happened to fail him in a particular turn of the tune he was singing, and some of the audience were ungenerous enough to disconcert him so far that he made a modest bow and retired [leaving his part unfinished. In consequence of this] a duet that was to have been sung by the King from the battlements of the castle, and Blondel without the walls, on which the turn of the fable hinged, was omitted; a circumstance that could not but materially affect the intrinterest, as it destroyed the connexion of the fable" (Morning Chronicle, 17 Oct.). [The following day Inchbald withdrew from his engagement at cg.] Receipts: #249 12s. 6d. (247.11.6; 2.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Coeur De Lion

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Event Comment: The Master of the Ballets, and some of the principal dancers, not having arrived till Monday, obliged the Manager to postpone the Opera intended for yesterday evening to Saturday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: A Comic Opera, 2 acts; the music [entirely new, composed by Domenico Cimarosa [with additions by Cherubini and Gazzaniga]. Under the direction of Mazzinghi. Receipts: #58 7s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Giannina E Bernardone

Dance: As17870106

Event Comment: Comic Opera [Librettist unknown], in 2 acts; the music by Paisiello. [The libretto assigns Martufo to Morigi, but "an unexpected event prevented Morigi from appearing. Cremonini therefore read his part" (Morning Chronicle, 19 Feb.). Receipts: #284 2s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Tutor Burlato

Dance: As17870213

Ballet: Zemira and Azor. As17870213

Event Comment: Benefit for Kelly. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their servants by Half past Four o'Clock. [Mme Mara had sung in concert at the Pantheon in 1784; in opera at the king's in 1786; and in the dl oratorios in 1787 and 1788.] Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Kelly, No. 48, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #351 5s. 6d. (177.12.0; 9.13.6; 0.5.0; tickets: 163.15.0) (charge: #111 3s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Brown. Mainpiece: With a Grand Processionv, as 21 Sept. 1787. [The Cottagers, a comic opera written by Mrs Brown's daughter, was published in 1788, and 1st acted at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 19 May 1789.] Receipts: #167 7s. (58.2; 7.9; tickets: 101.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: As17870921, but Cymon (for that night)-Brown; 2nd Shepherd-Evatt; Sylvia-Miss Ross (Author of The Cottagers; 1st appearance). 1st appearance).

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Song: In afterpiece: a Hunting Song-Darley

Entertainment: Monologue. End afterpiece: an Occasional Epilogue[, in the character of Harlequin] (written by Miss Ross)-Brown

Performance Comment: End afterpiece: an Occasional Epilogue[, in the character of Harlequin] (written by Miss Ross)-Brown.
Event Comment: A new Serious Opera (never performed [in London; 1st performed at Turin, 1788]); the Music by Cherubini [with additions by Tarchi and Sarti (World, 26 Jan.)], under the direction of Mazzinghi. With magnificent new Scenes, Dresses and other Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ifigenia In Aulide

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Marchesi, Forlivesi, Balelli, Torregiani, Fineschi, Mlle Chanu Pieltain, Sga Giuliani. Cast from libretto (C. Etherington, 1789): Achille-Luigi Marchesi; Agamemnone-Giuseppe Forlivesi; Ulisse-Balelli; Calcante-Paolo Torregiani; Arcade-Fineschi; Erifile-Sga Pieltain; Ifigenia-Sga Giuliani.

Dance: As17890110

Event Comment: "At the conclusion of the Opera on Saturday, a scene of riot and tumult took place which the King's Theatre has not witnessed since the celebrated discords between 'Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee' in the days of Handel and Bononcini. At the commencement of the last dance hostilities commenced by hissing and hooting from the pit and boxes...The dancers, however, were not dismayed, but continued their evolutions, though the noise was so great that they derived but little aid from the music. At last a body of malcontents, among whom were several stars and ribbons, sallied from the pit and took possession of the stage, from which they drove the light-heeled troops, and immediately began to perform a ballet tragique. The chamber of Ifigenia was despoiled of all its ornaments, and side scenes, and patent lamps; Roman tents and triumphal cars danced on the stage in all the mazes of confusion, nor did they cease, till they had demolished everything they found that was moveable. Mr Carnevale came forward to inform the audience that Mr Gallini could not be found...The ostensible reason given for this riot, which in our opinion is not to be justified on any pretense, is that Mr Gallini has not engaged dancers of sufficient eminence" (Public Advertiser, 10 Feb.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ifigenia In Aulide

Dance: As17890131 Les Fetes Provencales here called A Divertissement

Song: II: song-Marchesi

Event Comment: A new Serious Opera [1st time, by Bartolomeo Benincasa]; the Music entirely new by Tarchi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Disertore

Dance: As17890214

Event Comment: [The playbill announces Il Disertore, but "La Cosa Rara, from Giuliani's illness, was the substitute for the Serious Opera" (World, 9 Mar.).]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cosa Rara

Dance: As17890303

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera [1st performed at Naples, 1783]; the Music by Cimarosa, under the direction of Mazzinghi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Villana Riconosciuta

Dance: As17890317

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: [On account of the Indisposition of some of the principal Performers, there will be no Opera till Saturday. World, 13 Apr., advertises L'Olimpiade for this night.]
Event Comment: A new Serious Opera [1st time; SER 2, by Carlo Francesco Badini, based on Alessandro nell'Indie, by Metastasio]; the Music new by Tarchi. "The House was so pleased with it that they did as is done in foreign Theatres--they gave the Composer specific applause, 'Bravo Tarchi', 'Bravo Maestro'" (World, 3 June)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Generosita D'alessandro

Dance: As17890526

Event Comment: [In 3rd piece the playbill retain Iliff, but "On the fifth night of the representation, while R. Palmer was reading the part of Lord Megrim (Iliff being ill) an alarm of fire occasioned a disgreeable tumult; the performers assured the audience there was no danger, it being the opposite theatre (the Opera House, which was consumed) that was in flames. The Ladies, however, still retained their apprehensions, and all were eager to depart; happily this anxiety produced no accident" (Oulton, 1796, II, 52). Iliff perhaps did not act in Vimonda.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Vimonda

Afterpiece Title: As It Should Be

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: British Loyalty or A Squeeze for St. Paul's-Bannister Jun.; conclude with: God save the King-Chapman, Chambers, Mathews

Performance Comment: End 2nd piece: British Loyalty or A Squeeze for St. Paul's-Bannister Jun.; conclude with: God save the King-Chapman, Chambers, Mathews.
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Opera [who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. [Mrs Henry's 1st appearance was at cg, 25 Jan. 1788.] Receipts: #134 4s. 6d. (79.11.0; 52.9.0; 2.4.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Dance: End IV: The Minuet de la Cour and Gavot-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

Event Comment: 1st piece: For the 1st Time compress'd [anonymously] into 2 Acts. MacNally brought [Arthur Murphy] to Covent-garden Theatre to see [Robin Hood]; when, to the surprise of the author...the opera was that night performed as an afterpiece, having been, without his knowledge, cut down into two acts" (O'Keeffe, I, 45). 3rd piece: Not acted these 16 years [acted 12 Dec. 1780]. Receipts: #212 14s. 6d. (209.14.0; 3.0.6)
Event Comment: A new Comic Opera; the music by Fabrizi. Under the direction of Giardini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Due Castellani Burlati

Dance: As17900107