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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Signior Rolli"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Signior Rolli")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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351 results for: Keyword - Signior Rolli
We found 211 matches on Author, 71 matches on Event Comments, 51 matches on Performance Title, 31 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

326
17 March 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Performance Comment: See17520211, but will be introduc'd several new Tunes on the Jew's Harp never performed before-; A Solo in a new Taste-Signor Piantafugo; Salt@Box-; and the Performances of Signior Bombasto; Sg Bombazino as usual; a Solo of Humour on the French Horn-Mrs Midnight's Daughter; A New Prologue-a Gentleman; Epilogue-Hallet.

327
11 April 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Performance Comment: As17520401 but Signior _Bombasto; Sg _Bombasino.

328
21 January 1766 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new serious Opera. The Music entirely new-Signior Vento. With new Dances, new Cloaths and Decoration

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sofonisba

329
05 September 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: PPublic Advertiser, 5 Sept. 1769: Mr Crawford and Co. beg Leave to acquaint the Nobility and Gentry, with the following List of their new Singers, and others engaged for the serious and comic Operas next Season. Those marked thus& are new Performers, viz. Principal Singers for the Serious Operas: &Signior Guadini, first Man. &Signora Cecilia Grassi, first Woman. For comic or serious: Signor Lovattini, first Man. &Sig Zamperini, &Signora Guadini, first Women. &Signor Piatti, 2nd Man serious. &Signor Bianchi, Tenor, Signora Zamperini, Sig Morighi, Signora Piatti. Composer: Sig Guiglielmi. Principal Dancers: Mr Slingsby, &Signor Galiotti, &Signor Siminon, &Signora Guidi, Signora Radicatti, &Signora Gardel. Ballet Master: &Sig Campioni. [See 7 Nov.

Performances

330
06 January 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [See Epilogue to the Rival Candidates at dl 1 Feb. 1775, wherein Weston comments on his Dog Dragon, "But should his master's sing-song melt your soul @ He'll be as soft as-Signior Rossignol: @ Will with harmonious howlings swell each note, @ And bark sweet music,--only from his throat."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

331
02 April 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [By Paolo Antonio Rolli. The Scenes by Roberto Clerici, Engineer to the Royal Academy.] A New Opera. Pit and Boxes by tickets only at half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Numitor

332
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

333
30 March 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Rolli. Music by Buononcini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Erminia

334
12 March 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Rolli. Music by Handel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Scipio

335
05 May 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Rolli. Music by Handel.] At 7 p.m. Daily Journal, 7 May: On Thursday Night, Signiora Faustina, the famous Roman Songstress, performed his Majesty, their Royal Highnesses, and great Numbers of the Nobility and Quality, in...Alexander...with great Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

336
31 January 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Text possible by Haym or Rolli. Le Nuove Scene sone del Sigr Giuseppe Goupy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

337
11 November 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Music by Handel.] Admission by Ticket only (not more than 400) at half a guinea. Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard The First, King Of England

338
09 December 1729 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a comment on this performance, see Rolli to Riva, 11 Dec., in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 249-50

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lotharius

339
29 December 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Ariadne in Naxus is title in edition of 1734. Music by Nicola Porpora. Text by Rolli. This was the opening of the opera company opposing Handel. See comment by Caspar Wilhelm von Brocke in Deutsch, Handel, p. 341.] Pit and Boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 4s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6d. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne

340
12 March 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A new Oratorio or Sacred Drama. Set to Musick by Signor Nicola Porpora. [By Paul Rolli. Egmont present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: David

341
11 May 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A New Opera.[Text by Paul Rolli; music by Nicholas Porpora.] The Characters are all new dress'd. N.B. The Tickets of such Subscribers who have not yet paid the last Call will not be admitted. 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aeneas

342
03 May 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera.[Text by Paul Rolli. Music by Nicholas Porpora.] 7 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Iphigenia In Aulis

343
26 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Text by Paul Rolli.] Daily Advertiser, 26 April: The Signora Marchesini's Songs are distributed after such a judicious Manner by the ingenious Author, so as to rise gradually upon the Audience in each Act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sabrina

344
29 October 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Salvi. Altered by Rolli.] Pit and Boxes together at half a guinea each. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. [Their Majesties present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsaces

Related Works
Related Work: Arsaces Author(s): P.A. Rolli

345
22 January 1740 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [By Rolli.] Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merode E Selinunte

346
15 March 1740 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [By Rolli. Music by Hasse.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Olimpia In Ebuda

347
10 January 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A New Opera, [Text by Rolli. Music by Handel.] Boxes a half guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Second Gallery 2s. 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deidamia

348
10 November 1741 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: WWalpole to H. Mann 5 Nov.: Vanneschi and Rolli allowes 300 guineas...Montevolli and Visconti to have a thousand guineas apiece; Amorevoli 850; the Muscovite 600.-Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, I, 191

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander In Persia

349
12 December 1741 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Music by Galuppi, text P. Rolli. See Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, I, 198.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Penelope

350
31 January 1744 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Adapted from As You Like It, by Rolli; music by Veracini (Nicoll, Early Eighteenth Century Drama, p. 398).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosalinda