*p1781 06 05 king's L'Omaggio. Principal Parts-Roncaglia, Trebbi, Gherardi, Sampieri, Micheli, Rauzzini, Sga Sestini, Sga Lorenzini, Sga Pollone, Sga Romanzini, Sga Prudom. [Libretto ($E. Cox=, 1781) lists the parts: Giannino, Berto, Il Conte, Fabrizio, Fileno, Nice, Silvio, Damone, Lisetta, Contessa, Corilla, Giannina, Rosalba. <i>Larpent MS 561</i> lists the same, and adds: Farnace, Oronte, Mitridate, Fabio, Almira, Irene.]*d1781 06 05 king's Incident to the piece: Ballets by $Vestris Sen.=-Vestris Sen., Vestris Jun., Simonet, Slingsby, Traffieri, Zuchelli, Henry, Mme Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Sga Crespi, Sga Zuchelli, Miss Stageldoir, Miss Armstrong.*c1781 06 05 king's Opera [1st time; Past 3, author unknown]. The music [to Part I] composed by $Giovanni Battista? Bianchi=, [to Part II by] $Rauzzini=, [to Part III by] $Giordani=. With Grand Chorusses. With new Decorations devised and painted by $Novosielski=, and new Dresses. The Side-boards, with a cold Collation and all sorts of Wines, at 12 o'clock. The Performance under the direction of $Vestris Sen=., and to conclude with a Ball. Tickets, at 2 Guineas each, are ready to be delivered at the Office in <i>Union-court</i>, where Boxes may be taken. No Masks will be admitted. The Doors will be opened at 9:00, and the Performance to begin at 10:00. Books of the Performance will be given out (gratis) at the Theatre. <i>Morning Herald</i>, 7 June: The <i>Omaggio</i>, or homage paid by the vassals and tenants to their Lord, is naturally calculated to give free scope to lively, and sentimental music. In the former stile Bianchi and $Giardini= [sic] were equally succesful; and in the latter Rauzzini was surprisingly great, both as composer and performer...$Slingsby= would, in our opinion, have come out with as great a share of applause as the best of them, having to go through an <i>English dance</i> in his own stile, but by some unaccountable accident...the music-band stopped short when he was in the very climax of his exertions. The scenes are in the rural stile, with the addition of natural trees, flowering shrubs, &c., set in the neatest order...The company did not begin to move till about four, and by five the rooms were cleared. <i>Public Advertiser</i>, 7 June: The Vestris' gave incontrovertible proof of the variety of their powers...They did more, they shewed what this country had never seen-the possibility of presenting to the eye a large and extensive stage filled with dancers all in motion at the same time.