Event Comment: A Serious Opera (1st time at this
Theatre [1st performed at
Venice, 1783]);
the Music by
Bianchi. "
The splendour of
the Opera this year in point of crowd and fashion surpasses every thing within our memory. It used to be only full on
the Saturday evening...
Mlle Parisot, a new dancer from
Paris, is a most beautiful figure, about 18 years of age...Her balance is postively magical, for her person was almost horizontal while turning as on a pivot on her toe" (
Morning Chronicle, 10 Feb.). "[Mlle
Parisot's] acting proves what art may effect by beautiful simplicity. She never makes use of those tours de force with which
the best female dancers at
Paris still endeavour to shine. Every step of Mlle
Parisot is marked by
the greatest truth and dignity of nature. Every one of her movements is expressive, spirited and harmonious" (
Goede, pp. 264-65)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Piramo E Tisbe
Dance: End I: A New Divertissementin which-Mlle Parisot will dance, for the first time in this Country; End Opera: Paul et Virginie, as17960116