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We found 4169 matches on Event Comments, 2324 matches on Performance Comments, 405 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit Cave Underhill. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Five Years. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. It being the last time of Acting at this House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuoso

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Dance: Mlle delaVal, Mrs Elford, Firbank, others

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Pierre Motteux.] By Subscription. Admission to boxes and pit by subscribers' tickets only; first gallery 5s., upper gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Temple Of Love

Event Comment: [Text by MacSwiney. Music adapted by N. Haym. Premiere.] By subscription. None to be admitted into the Boxes or Pit but by the Subscribers' Tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Admission to boxes and pit by subscribers' tickets only; gallery 5s., upper gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Performance Comment: See17060330.
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Boxes 7s. 6d. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. No Person to stand on the Stage, or come behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Performance Comment: See17060330.
Event Comment: [By Mary de la Riviere Manley.] Never Acted before. And by Reason of the Extraordinary Charge for Habits, Boxes 5s., Pit 3s., First Gallery 2s., Upper Gallery 1s. Preface: Almyna was admirably Acted, and advantagiously dress'd: The first was owing to Mr Betterton's unwearied care...the second to Mr Swiny...for venturing...to make so great an Expence...both justly condemn'd for playing it at so ill-fated a Time, viz. The immediate Week before Christmas between Devotion and Camilla

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almyna Or The Arabian Vow

Event Comment: For the Encouragement of the Comedians Acting in the Hay-Market, and to enable them to keep the Diversion of Plays under a separate Interest from the Opera. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by the Subscription Tickets. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [Cibber (II, 4-5) states that each subscriber received three tickets for the first day of each of three plays offered by subscription for a payment of three guineas.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Event Comment: By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

Event Comment: [Text by Joseph Addison. Music by Thomas Clayton.] A new Opera never yet perform'd. By Subscription. None to be admitted into the Boxes or Pit but by the Subscribers' Tickets. [Both A Critical Discourse upon Operas (1709) and Jacobs (I, 3) refer to the unsatisfactory nature of the music; as a result, according to Jacobs, "It had not the Success due to its Merit."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

Event Comment: By subscription, with the pit, front boxes, and two side boxes for the subscribers; the galleries for the house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

Performance Comment: See17070304.
Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Motteux. Music adapted by Pepusch.] A new Opera. By Subscription. The Front Boxes and Side Boxes to be laid open into the Pit; where none are to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. And the Stage Boxes, Balconies, and Galleries are for the Benefit of the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris

Event Comment: [in Daily Courant, 7 May, Thomyris had been advertised by subscription for Saturday 10 and Thursday 15 at two guineas for three tickets on each day, the number not to exceed 420 in the front boxes, side boxes, and pit, all to be laid together.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris Queen Of Scythia

Event Comment: Afterpiece [by Richard Estcourt]: Mr Bayes's Practice of an Interlude, call'd, Prunella, done from the Italian. Benefit Estcourt. And at the Request of many of the Nobility (who have taken Tickets) 2 Benches of the Pit will be Rail'd in, for more Conveniency. And to prevent any Disappointment, by coming late, 'tis desire'd that their Servants may be sent by 2 a Clock with the Tickets to keep Places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Prunella

Event Comment: [Text translated by Owen Swiney. Music adapted by N. Haym.] By Subscription. None to be admitted into the Pit or Boxes but by the Subscribers' Tickets. Stage Boxes 15s. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. And (at the Desire of several Persons of Quality) the Boxes are to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by printed Tickets, which are deliver'd by him. [Ch. Dering, writing to John Percival, stated that Nicolini got 800 guineas.-Egmont MS, p. 246.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Performance Comment: See17081214.
Event Comment: [Words from the Italian of G. B. Neri. Music by Francesco Conti and others.] A new Opera. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. Stage Boxes 15s. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Clotilda

Event Comment: Benefit Estcourt, Two Benches of the Pit being Rail'd in to the Boxes for the Conveniency of the Persons of Quality who have taken Bounty Tickets. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth Part I

Performance Comment: See17090101.
Event Comment: Benefit Mills. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. And at the request of some Persons of Quality, 2 Benches of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes at the same Price. [Receipts: possibly #127 2s., according to Baggs.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolini. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The boxes and pit open by tickets only at 7s. 6d. First Gallery 2s. 6d. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music entirely new by the famous Scarlatti Bononcini, other the greatest Italian Masters-; To which will be added, the new Scene which was perform'd on Saturday last in the Opera of Pyrrhus and Demetrius-; The Vocal Parts-Signior Nicolini, others

Event Comment: [Music by G. Bononcini? Librettist unknown.] By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by the Subscribers Tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almahide

Event Comment: Never perform'd before. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. Edition 1710: Music composed by Francesco Mancini. The Scenes painted by Signor Marco Rizzi of Venice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Event Comment: Benefit Haughton, pit doorkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: See17091215, but Kite-Pack.
Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman, Note, The Subscribers are desir'd not to bring their Tickets this Day, his Friends having promis'd to make this a Jubilee Day to him, and fill the House at the full Price, Mr Penkethman being at a greater Charge than ordinary. For the Entertainment of Madam la Signiora Fount, Signiora, Espagnola, Native d'Barcellone di cale Quallificatta, who will, in a particular Manner, hounour Mr Penkethman...by appearing in her own Country Habit. The Boxes opened to the Pit at 2s. 6d. At five o'clock, by reason of thelength of the Entertainments, and that the Gentry may return to London before 'tis Dark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess Or The Generous Portuguese

Dance: Whimsical Dance between a Miller, his Wife, and a Town Miss-; Chest Dance, after the Italian Manner, between Scaramouch, Punchanello, Coachman, and Cookmaid-; French Peasant and his Wife-; Ladder Dance-a famous Master; Scaramouch-LeSac; Dance by a Flemming in Wooden Shoes-; Dance by a Switzer-; Night Scene of Scaramouch, Harlequin, Cooper, Wife, and others-

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. By the same Company who acted there last Summer. Note, the Company will continue acting every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday during the Summer Season. At 6 p.m. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: Admission to pit and boxes by tickets only at 8s. First Gallery 4s. Upper Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Performance Comment: See17111205.