Event Comment: [Music by Dominico Scarlatti, with additional numbers by Thomas Roseingrave. Text by P. A. Rolli.] A new Opera. Pit and Boxes together at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. Stage one Guinea. N.B. When the Tickets are disposed of, no Person will be admitted for Money; places will be kept in the Boxes only

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Music by G. F. Handel.] A new Opera. Pit and Boxes at a half guinea. And in Regard to the Increase of the Number of Subscribers, no more than Three Hundred and Fifty Tickets will be delivered out. No Tickets will be disposed of at the Theatre, nor any Money taken there but for the Gallery. Gallery 5s

Event Comment: Benefit Galliard. Pit and Front Boxes half a guinea. Middle Box 5s. Gallery 3s

Event Comment: Benefit Pietro. Boxes and Pit half a guinea. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Event Comment: Benefit Benedetti Baldassary, Servant to the Elector Palatine. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m

Event Comment: Benefit Pieto. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 7 p.m

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. By Reason of the shortness of the Opera, to begin exactly at Eight a-Clock

Event Comment: Benefit John Clegg, a Youth of Nine Years of Age, lately arriv'd from Ireland. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 7 p.m

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Ariosti.] Pit and Boxes half a guinea (not over 340 tickets). Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m

Event Comment: Benefit Corbet, lately arriv'd from Italy, being the first Time of his Performance. By Subscription. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 4s. At 6 p.m

Event Comment: With several Additionals and Alterations. Admission to Boxes and Pit by Tickets only (not to exceed 350) at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m

Event Comment: Boxes half a guinea. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 7 p.m

Event Comment: [Music by Ariosti. Text by Zeno.] Boxes and Pit by Ticket only (not to exceed 340) at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m

Event Comment: Boxes and Pit put together (not over 400 Tickets) at half a guinea. Gallery 5s

Event Comment: Benefit Kontzen, a Youth of Seven Years old, who plays on the Harpsichord in a surpizing manner. Boxes half a guinea. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Event Comment: Benefit Ray. At the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. At Reynold's Booth in the Half-Moon-Inn, near the Bowling Green. At 7 P.M. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s

Event Comment: [Text altered from A. Salvi. Music by Handel.] Pit and Boxes by Tickets only at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m. [Customary notices.

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Cecilia Young, a Scholar of Signor Geminiani, who never yet sung in Publick. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6d. 7 p.m

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Pietro Metastasio. Done into English by Humphreys. Music presumably by Leonardo Leo.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 145-46. Daily Advertiser, 6 Nov.: There were present a very numerous Audience; and Signora Celeste Gismondi, who lately arriv'd here, perform'd a principal Part in it with universal Applause. We hear that this Opera was not compos'd by Mr Handell, but by some very eminent Master in Italy

Event Comment: [The opening of Covent Garden Theatre.] Written by the late Mr Congreve. The Cloaths, Scenes, and Decorations entirely New. And, on Account of the great Demand for Places, the Pit and Boxes, by Desire, will be laid together at 5s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. And to prevent the Scenes being crowded, the Stage Half a Guinea. All Persons who want Places are desir'd to send to the Stage Door (the Passage from Bow-street leading to it), where Attendance will be given, and Places kept for the following Nights as usual. Receipts: #115

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. A New Oratorio in English. Composed by Mr Handel. And to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. The House to be fitted up and illuminated in a new and particular manner. Tickets One Guinea. Gallery Half a Guinea. [Text by Samuel Humphreys. Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] Daily Advertiser, 20 March: An Entertainment, perhaps, the most magnificent that has ever been exhibited on an English Theatre....The Composition of the Musick is by no means inferior to the most finish'd of that Gentleman's Works; but the Disposition of the Performers was in a Taste beyond what has been attempted. There was a very great Number of Instruments by the best Hands, and such as would properly accompany three Organs. The Pit and Orchestre were cover'd as at an Assembly, and the whole House Illuminated in a new and most beautiful manner. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Robinson, who never appear'd before in Publick. Pit and Boxes half guinea. Gallery 5s. [Tickets at Robinson's in Duke Street, Westminster.

Event Comment: Benefit Lancetti, Virtuoso of the Violoncello, and Servant to His Majesty the King of Sardinia. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. 7 p.m

Event Comment: A New Opera. Pit and Boxes by tickets at half a guinea. Gallery $s. At 6 P.M. [Their Majesties and the Royal Family present. Composer and librettist not known.]

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Ariadne in Naxus is title in edition of 1734. Music by Nicola Porpora. Text by Rolli. This was the opening of the opera company opposing Handel. See comment by Caspar Wilhelm von Brocke in Deutsch, Handel, p. 341.] Pit and Boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 4s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6d. 6 P.M