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Event Comment: A new Comic Opera--Music by Galuppi. [Text--Goldoni. First performance in England. The text notes music originally by Baldassar Galuppi called Buranello, and perfected by Gioacchino Cocchi. Burney (History of Music, II, 860) notes the extreme popularity of this piece, and the success of the Paganinis as singers in it.

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Mainpiece Title: Il Filosofo Di Campagna

Dance: New Dances , as17601216-Gherardi, Mlle Asselin, Polly Capitani, Tariot

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Mainpiece Title: I Tre Gobbi Rivali

Dance: Gerhardi, Mlle Asselin, Giorgio Binety, Anna Binety, Miss Polly Capitani, Mr Tariot

Event Comment: Libretto by Goldoni; Music by Galuppi. A new comic Opera. To begin at 6:30 p.m. Pit and Boxes Half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command No Persons admitted behind the Scenes [Repeated. The 1760 Libretto of Arianne e Teseo calls for Prologue to be sung by Signora Mattei on this night.

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Mainpiece Title: Il Mondo Nella Luna

Dance: New DancesDirector of Dances-Gherardi; Dancers-Mlle Asselin, Gherardi, Miss Polly Capitani, Tariot

Event Comment: First performance in England. A new comic Opera. Music-Bertoni, author of the favourite song Ah se un Cuor Barbaro, in Demetrio. [Libretto by Goldoni (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, p. 110.)

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Mainpiece Title: La Pescatrici

Event Comment: A new comic Opera, with new Clothes, Decorations and Dances. By Their Majesties Command. [Repeated in subsequent bills.

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Mainpiece Title: Il Mercato Di Malmantile

Dance: Director of Dances-Gallini; Dancers-Gallini, Mlle Asselin, Binetti, Sga Binetti

Music: Domenico Fischetti

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Mainpiece Title: Il Mercato

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Mainpiece Title: Gideon

Performance Comment: Parts for five characters and a Chorus; Gideon-; Joash-; Eliakim-; a Priest of Baal-; Oreb-; Chorus of Israelites-.*m1769 2 10 cg The First Violin, a Concerto-Sga Paganini; a Concerto on the Hautboy-Fischer.*c1769 2 10 cg By Command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. Tickets will be deliver'd this day in the Office of the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. The doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at Half an Hour after Six. A New ORATORIO, the Music by Handel. Composed by Dr Morrell (Biographia Dramatica). We cannot commend this piece, it being altogether a very tedious and heavy performance (Theatrical Register). Charges: #35.
Event Comment: A Burletta, Benefit for Sg & Sga Paganini, [Who] being desirous of returning to Italy...take this Opportunity to express their most grateful Sense of the many Favours with which they have been honoured in this Kingdom; and being willing that the Necessitous should share in that Bounty which they owe more to the Generosity of the English Nation than to their own Merits, they have allotted a fourth part of the Profits which may arise from the above Burletta (free from all Expense whatever) towards the carrying on and extending the Utility of the Asylum or House of Refuge for Female Orphans...and another Part of the aforesaid Profits will be given towards relieving old Signor Cataneo, who, during forty Years was useful to the Operas, but is now in extreme Distress; and the Manager, who is at the Expence of this Benefit, has chearfully consented to the Disposition here mentioned. As it is intended to apply the whole Profits which may arise from letting out the Servants Gallery [at 2s. 6d. each person] for the Benefit of the Asylum, over and above what was before alloted to it, 'tis humbly hoped that the Nobility, Gentry, etc. will not take it amiss if their Servants are not admitted that Night, as has been the Practice at this Theatre on Occasions of Charity. Tickets will delivered out for this Benefit, this day at the Opera Office, and signed by Mr Crawford, and all Monies given for Tickets above their usual Price, is to be shared in the Charity abovementioned. Tickets delivered for 23 March will be taken

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Mainpiece Title: Il Mercato Del Malmantile

Performance Comment: As17611214, but the Songs of the Paganinis will be all new.
Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galetea And Dryden's Ode

Music: Solo on the Violin-Sg Paganini

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joshua

Music: Concerto on Violin-Paganini

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Theatrical Register, 1769: We cannot rank this among th most capital of Mr Handel's oratorios; and yet it has great merit in one particular, viz. the attempt to characterize the idea of the plagues of Egypt by the power of music, in which, perhaps, the composer has carried the force of imitation to its utmost extent. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

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Mainpiece Title: Israel In Egypt

Music: Concerto on Violin-Paganini

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Receiv'd from Stanley and Smith for use of the Organ this season #21; for coals burnt at Oratorios #2 2s. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

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Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: Serenata Geminiane, Third Opera,-Sg Paganini

Event Comment: N.B. There will be no Opera performed next Saturday it being the fast of Whitsunday

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Mainpiece Title: La Pescatrici

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Pescatrici

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Pescatrici

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Pescatrici

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Mainpiece Title: La Pescatrici

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Mainpiece Title: Il Mercato

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Mainpiece Title: Il Mercato

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Mainpiece Title: Il Mercato

Event Comment: [Sga Mattei announced her undertaking direction of Italian Serious Operas and Burlettas for the ensuing winter, promised the performance of them for the best advantage of the public, and listed the members of the company she had engaged: For Serious Operas: herself, Philippo Elisi (the first singer in Italy), Gaetano Quilice (tenor), Angiola Calori (second woman), Giovanni Sorbelloni (second man), and a new singer for the lowest character. For the Burlettas: Sga Paganini (the first female character and the foremost in Italy), Gaetano Quilice (the first man), Sga Eleardi (second woman), Paganini (second man), Signor N. N. (third man), Angiola Calori and Sorbelloni (to perform the serious parts in the Burlettas). Dancers: Mlle Asselin (first woman dancer), Gheradi (first dancer of the men, and ballet master), famed both in the serious and comic as well as for his invention as for exercises in dancing. There will also be other comic dancers, and figures both for the serious operas and burlettas.

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Event Comment: SSignora Paganini being much indisposed with a cold, is the reason of the above opera being performed instead of Il Filosofo di Campagna, as advertized

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arianna E Teseo

Event Comment: N.B. Sg Paganini being taken very ill is the reason of the above Opera being performed this evening instead of the new Comic Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tolomeo