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Event Comment: A Serious Opera in 2 acts (1st time [by Pietro Metastasio]); the Music selected from the most eminent Composers by and under the direction of Cherubini. [Crescentini was from the Opera, Lucca; Sga Ferrarese from the Opera, Turin.]

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Mainpiece Title: Demetrio

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Related Work: Demetrio Author(s): Pietro Metastasio

Dance: As17850101 throughout

Event Comment: A New Comic Opera; compsoed by Pietro Guglielmi; under the direction of Mazzinghi. Pit Half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. No Money to be returned. The Doors to be opened at 6:30. To begin at 7:30 precisely [see 14 Feb. 1792]. The Nobility and Gentry are intreated to give particular Orders to their Coachmen to set down and take up with their Horses' Heads towards Hyde Park. The Door in Blenheim Mews will be shut during the Performance and opened only for the Company to go in Chairs. Subscriptions are received at Messrs Ransom, Morland and Hammersly's, No. 57, Pall-mall. And the Nobility and Gentry are earnestly requested to send a complete List of the Subscribers to their respective Boxes as soon as possible, since (by express Orders) no Person, on any account, can be admitted without producing a proper Ticket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Pastorella Nobile

Dance: End I: a new Ballet Demi-Caractere, composed by D'Auberval, La Fontaine d'Amour-

Ballet: End II: a new Pantomimic, Anacreontic Ballet, composed by D'Auberval, L'Amant Deguise. Alcindor-Laborie; Ciane-Mlle Hilligsberg; Euphrosine-Mme Theodore D'Auberval; Satyre-D'Egville; Nymphs-Mlles Simonet; Cupidon-Mlle Menage

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; DO 3, by Prince Hoare, based on Didone Abbandonata, by Pietro Metastasio]: The Musick is chiefly new, and composed by Storace. The Selections are made from the most celebrated works of Salieri, Paer, Rampini, Sacchini, Sarti, Giordani, Cimarosa, Schuster, Andreozzi. The Scenery and Machinery designed by Greenwood and executed by himself and his Pupils. The Dresses of the Tyrians, Trojans and Africans entirely new, and taken from the most accurate descriptions of the Habits of their respective Nations. [Both Miss Barclay and Master Welsh had 1st appeared at the king's oratorios, 24 Feb.]. "A procession was introduced in which an Ostrich, a Dromedary and an Elephant marched to slow music. The Masque, which concluded the opera, was some insipid stuff about Neptune and Nereids, with a representation of the Temple of Neptune. Young Welsh sang prettily in this said Masque" (Morning Herald, 24 May). "[Mara] retained only one song of her Didone [see king's, 14 Feb. 1786]; the brilliant bravura, Son Regina, of Sacchini" (Mount-Edgcumbe, 80). Morning Herald, 28 May 1792: This Day is published Dido (price not listed). Receipts: #244 8s. 6d(213.14.5; 28.15.0; 1.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido Queen Of Carthage

Monologue: To Conclude Masque, Neptune's Prophecy. Tritons, Neriads-the full Chorus of the Theatre; Neptune-Bannister; Ascanius-Master Welsh (1st appearance on any stage [see 24 Feb.]); Venus-Miss Collins; The Graces-Miss DeCamp, Miss Jacobs, Miss Heard

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Robert Jephson, based on La Clemenza di Tito. by Pietro Bonaventura Trapassi? Metastasio. Text (unauthorized), Dublin: John Archer, 1796; it assigns no parts. Authors of Prologue and Epilogue unknown]: The Scenery by Marinari. Receipts: #237 10s. (169.18; 64.12; 3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conspiracy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Captive