Event Comment: Benefit for Sga DeAmicis, who will present it [the afterpiece] in its own natural beauty, such as it originally came from the hands of the ingenious author Sig Pergolesi, and as it was first done at Naples, in order to give the Nobility and Gentry the most favorable idea of so masterly a piece. Pit and Boxes to be put together at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s

Event Comment: Benefit Signor Laschi, with Comic Interludes between the Acts, called La Serva Padrona. The music composed by Sig Gio. Batista Pergolesi

Event Comment: By Command. The Concert will be perform'd in a Magnificent Triumphant Scenev, exceeding 30 Foot in Length any Scene ever seen before. Painted by Sig Roberto Clerici. The Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Gallery 2s. 6d

Event Comment: New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations for the dances. [No after money.] The New Grand Ballet, call'd the Turkish Pirate, and the Comic Entertainment of Dancing, the Laundress's Visiting Day were perform'd last Monday at Drury Lane, with uncommon applause. The Scenery was well contriv'd, the habits very elegant, and the dance in a taste particularly agreeable. The comic entertainment is a fine piece of low humour, the various characters were well represented and afforded a great deal of Mirth; Sig Salomon especially, in the character of the woman's taylor, show'd a great deal of a good comedian as well as an excellent dancer, and the whole was greatly approv'd of.--London Courant; or New Advertiser, 31 Dec

Event Comment: Printed books of the opera will be sold at the theatre. Published this day at 1s. Lo Studente A La Moda, dramma comicogiocoso, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. With an English Translation. Sold by H. Woodfall...Where may be had Gli Amanti Gelosi, with an English translation. [Opera in there acts in Italian and French. Larpent MS 103. Altered from A. Polomba La Violante. Music by G. B. Pergolesi. Rich applied to the Duke of Grafton (9 Jan.) for license to perform it.

Event Comment: Compos'd by Sg Pergolesi. Benefit of the Managers of the Italian Company who played the Burlettas at Covent Garden Theatre this Season. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 7 p.m. Will be presented the Second Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick...Between the first and second part of the Concert will be given, gratis, an Italian Interlude, called, La Serva Padrona

Event Comment: MMarybone Gardens are now opened, and will be continued every evening during the summer season: There will be a musical performance in the orchestra, and after that an English burletta called La Serva Padrona. The music composed by Pergolesi, wherein Sga Seratina, who is now pretty well recovered of her late illness, and who has met with such universal applause in these performances, will perform the principal part. The doors will be opened at Five, the Music begin at Six, and the Burletta at Eight o'clock. Admittance 1s. The Books of the Burletta to be had at the Bar of the Gardens. N.B. Mr Truster's daughter continues to make the rich seed and plumb cakes so much admired by the Nobility and Gentry, and will be sent to any part of the town at 2s. 6d. each. She likewise makes almond cheesecakes that excels anything of that kind and are hot at One o'clock, and are sold at 21s. per dozen. [This notice repeated in subsequent bills.

Event Comment: By Authority [repeated in each bill]. Music by Pergolesi. An English comicBurletta [translated] from the Italian (Public Advertiser)

Event Comment: Benefit for Storace. The Whole adapted to the original Music of Pergolesi by Storace. Tickets 3s. The Concert included vocals by Mas. Cheney and Mrs Barthelemon, and Musical imitations by Barthelemon

Event Comment: Never performed in this Kingdom. In the manner of an Oratorio. This is a species of entertainment borrowed from our volatile neighbors on the continent, and never performed in England before; that is not directly in this manner. [But see 4 May 1759.] The performance was divided into three parts: the First consisted of Mr Addison's celebrated Hymn, set to music by Mr Handel, which is a masterly performance; the second contained Miserere mei Dei, &c., the music compsoed by Sig Pergolesi; this is a noble performance; the third part consisted of a very fine anthem, by Sig Nigri of Milan, a work of great merit. A concerto on the French Horn (as 6 March) and a concerto on the Violin (as 11 March) (Theatrical Review, p. 220). Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Durastanti. At 7 p.m. Admission as 14 June