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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.

1551
21 October 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17601011

1552
19 November 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: As17600924; The Pedlar Trick'd-Sg Maranesi, Sga Maranesi

1553
15 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17600924; End II: A Comic dance, not performed these 8 years, call'd Les Charboniers-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

1554
08 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17600924; End II: Dancing [Unspecified in playbill]-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

1555
24 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #35 15s. Mr Sutton enter'd from the 17th inclusive at 3s. 4d. (Account Book). Receipts: #115 2s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17600924; and a New Comic Dance-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

1556
27 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: As17601024; a Comic Dance-Granier, Mrs Granier

1557
01 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King. Tickets to be had of Mr King, at his lodgings in Broad Court, Bow Street; and of Mr Varney, at the Stage Door. The New Hippocrates, wrote by Dr Hiffernan--wretched, but went off quietly (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The New Hippocrates; or, A Lesson for Quacks

Entertainment: After the Play: by Desire, for that night only The Picture of a Playhouse or, Bucks Have at Ye All-Mr King; a Mimic Comic opera song-Mrs Clive

1558
02 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Mainpiece for the Last Time this season. The last time Mrs Yates acted till May 30th-See April 14th (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Cast
Role: Prince Henry Actor: Mas. Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: Edgar and Emmeline

Song: By particular Desire aMimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

1559
09 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered out by Poitier for Friday 10th instant, will be taken this night. The Rape of Proserpine oblig'd to be deferr'd on Account of the Indisposition of a principal performer. [Poitier Sr had 74 Box tickets which brought to him #18 10s. (Account Book).] Receipts: #62 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17610408

1560
13 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Kennedy. No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd for Much Ado and The Wonder will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Vocal Parts in Funeral Procession Actor: Lowe Champnes, Courtney, Fawcett, Kear, Fox, Mrs Vincent, Miss Young, Miss E. Young, Miss Reed, Mrs Matthews, Mrs Smith.
Role: And the Additional Scene representing the Funeral Actor:
Role: a Masquerade Dance Actor: proper to the Play

Afterpiece Title: The New Hippocrates

Entertainment: After:(by Particular Desire) Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

1561
15 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17610401 but Bobadil-Yates; Master Mathew-Vaughan.
Cast
Role: Master Mathew Actor: Vaughan.

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and No Duke

Entertainment: End: Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

1562
21 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: King Edward Actor: Master Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: T+The May Day Morning Fingalian Dance, as17610416

Song: By Particular Desire, the Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

1563
08 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Clough, Cautherly, &c. Tomlinson? and Watkins had tickets. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Song: The Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive By Particular Desire, and for the last time this season

1564
18 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Charles Sarjant, (house keeper). Tickets deliver'd for the Wonder will be taken. Receipts: #69 2s. 6d. plus #73 2s. from tickets (Box 125; Pit 223; Gallery 84) (Account Book). Charges:#80 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mrs Vernon; a Country Dance-the Characters in the opera; End II: Les Charboniers, as17601215

1565
16 June 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Dance: PPantomime Dance-Master Rogie, Miss Capitani, from the Opera

1566
05 September 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes, 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for Boxes of Mr Johnson at the stage door. No persons may be admitted behind scenes or into orchestra. No money to be returned after curtain is drawn up. [Usual note not to be further recorded.] Theatre newly painted and decorated (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

1567
21 September 1761 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the large Theatrical Booth at the bottom of the Bowling Green. A new Comedy Written on the plan of a gentleman whose abilities have long received the sanction of public approbation. Interspersed with a variety of Entertainments infinitely superior to what have been generally given at the Fairs. The Songs will be new and spirited. The Dances lively and characteristic. By a company of Comedians from both Theatres. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Whimsical Battle Of The Greybeards; Or, The Humourous History Of A Covent Garden Adventure; Containing The Ridiculous Behaviour Of shela O'flannegan The First Irish Woman Introduced At Any Fair, The Odd Resentment Of col

Performance Comment: Crackcrown and his whimsical Duel with the purblind Major Blinko, the Marriage of Sawney MacGregor, a Scotch Footman, and Shela O'Flannegan; with the fortunate conclusion by a Methodist Cobbler; The whole to conclude with a congratulatory poem; by way of Epithalamium, on the auspicious nuptials of our Illustrious Patriot King, and the Illustrious Princess Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz-.

Dance: CComic Dance-Signora Florentina, a capital performer from the Opera House at Turin

1568
29 December 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Other character Actor: Grimaldi, Blakes, Clough, Vaughan, Weston, Castle, Mas. Kennedy, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Simson, Mrs Matthews, Miss Rogers, Miss Baker
Role: The Dances Actor: Vincent, Giorgi, Mas. Roger, Sga Giorgi, Miss Capitani.

1569
03 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Tickets to be had of Mrs Sparks, at her house in Crown Court. Tickets deliver'd out for the Distress'd Mother will be taken. N.B. Mr Sparks having been very long indisposed and rendered incapable of attending the theatre, with the greatest deference persuades himself that Circumstance will readily plead his Apology, and induce his friends to dispense with his personal appearance, and favor him with their commands; and that they will excuse the changing of his play, to which he is oblig'd by the illness of a principal performer; of which and his former obligations, he shall always retain the most gratful sense. [Sparks had been ill since 14 Jan. when Hull took over his part of Buckingham in King Richard III.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Counterfeit

Performance Comment: As17620329 but The Cries of London-_.
Cast
Role: The whole to conclude with the Cries of London Actor: .

Song: Between Acts: some Favorite Songs from the English Opera Artaxerxes-; viz: I: In Infancy our hopes and fears-Tenducci; II: If e'er the Cruel Tyrant Love-Miss Brent; III: Water parted from the sea-Tenducci; IV: Let no rage thy bosom fire-Miss Brent

Dance: TThe Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

1570
15 April 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: As17610919. *uöÔdl TThe Farmer's Return from London. (by Particular Desire) As17620329.
Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder

1571
24 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Mainpiece: Hull's "Alteration with Additions" to Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. Not acted these 30 years. [See 9 Oct. 1734, according to Genest, IV, 653.] No Building on Stage. [This alteration acted but once, not printed. Done again 1779, and printed in 8vo 1793 under title Comedy of Errors. [See Hogan, II, 151.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twins; Or, A Comedy Of Errors

Performance Comment: The characters of the play-Shuter, Dunstall, Gibson, Hull, Davis, Anderson, Wignell, Tindal, Perry, R. Smith, Holtom, Buck, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Lessingham, Mrs Stephens, Mrs Ward; A New Prologue-Smith; A New Epilogue-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: The characters of the play Actor: Shuter, Dunstall, Gibson, Hull, Davis, Anderson, Wignell, Tindal, Perry, R. Smith, Holtom, Buck, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Lessingham, Mrs Stephens, Mrs Ward
Related Works
Related Work: The Twins; or, Is It He, or his Brother? Author(s): Matthew Gregory Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: II: Let not the Rage, from the opera Artaxerxes, by Particular Desire,-Miss Brent

Dance: After the Epilogue: The Taylors, as17620107

1572
25 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: I: The Cow Keepers, as17611215

1573
21 September 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Vernon-Macheath, 1st time; Mr Parsons-Filch, Mrs Parsons-Mrs Peachum (Cross Diary). Mr William Parsons came with Mr James Love from Edinburg, and Made his first appearance on the stage in London this evening; He died of an asthma on Tues. 3 February in the severe winter of 1795, and was buried in the churchyard of Lea-Church near Blackheath in Kent; he was in his 60th year (Macmillan [Hopkins MS Notes]). Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 19 Oct. 1759.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Vernon, 1st appearance on the English Stage these 5 years; Beggar-Castle; Lockit-Bransby; Player-Mozeen; Lucy-Mrs Clive; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Parsons, 1st appearance; Diana Trapes-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly-Mrs Vincent; Peachum-Moody; Mat@o@Mint-Blakes; Filch-Parsons, 1st time; In Act III,Hornpipe-Miss Dawson; To conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Macheath Actor: Vernon, 1st appearance on the English Stage these 5 years

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: End Opera: A Dutch Dance-Vincent, Sga Giorgi

1574
23 September 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Macheath Actor: Vernon, 1st appearance on the English Stage these 5 years

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

1575
01 October 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. To Begin exactly at Six o'Clock. [The earlier opening hour continues.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Macheath Actor: Vernon, 1st appearance on the English Stage these 5 years

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris