Event Comment: Mainpiece: An English Opera [from
Rolt's
The Royal Shepherd]. Never perform'd
there.
The Music selected from
the best composers, and adapted by
Tenducci. Books of Opera to be had at
theatre. [Argument from Edition of 1769: Among
the most celebrated actions ascribed to
Alexander the Great, may be well ranked that of delivering
the Kingdom of
Sidon from
the tyrant
Strato; and instead of taking
the dominion himself, restoring
the crown to
the next lawful heir, who, ignorant of his pretensions to it, lived as a shepherd in
the country near Sidon, of which a more particular account may be found in
Quintus Curtius, Book IV, Chap. 10.
The superstructure of
the fable raised on this historical foundation, will be seen in
the course of
the drama."
The Plot sketched out in a review in
the Freeholder's Magazine, Dec.] Receipts: #137 14s