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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Benucci"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Benucci")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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We found 7 matches on Roles/Actors, 3 matches on Performance Comments, 1 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: A new Comic Opera (never performed [in London; 1st performed at Florence, 1778]); the Music by Gazzaniga [with additions by Storace, Posi, Trachi (World, 11 May)], under the direction of Mazzinghi. At the London production of La Vendemmia, the duet (Count-Susanna) Crudel perche finora from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro was sung by Benucci and Anna Storace; probably the first piece of any Mozart opera which was heard on the London stage" (Loewenberg, 364). [In June 1789 it was published by Birchall and Andrews, as "A favorite duett...sung in...La Vendemmia...by Sg Benucci and Sga Storace". See Illustration

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Mainpiece Title: La Vendemmia

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Benucci (1st appearance in England), Borselli, Forlivesi, Fineschi, Sga Sestini, Sga Borselli, Sga Storace (1st appearance this season). Cast from libretto (L. Wayland, 1789): Il Conte Zefiro-Benucci; Cardone-Borselli; Don Achille-Giuseppe Forlivesi; Don Fausto-Fineschi; Artemisia-Sga Sestini; Lauretta-Sga Borselli; Agatina-Sga Storace.
Cast
Role: Il Conte Zefiro Actor: Benucci

Dance: As17890404

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Benucci, Fineschi, Balelli, Borselli, Mme Pieltain, Sga Borselli, Sga Sestini. [Libretto (T. Cadell, 1777) lists the parts: Il Cavaliere Armidoro, Il Marchese della Conchiglia, Tagliaferro, Mengotto, La Marchesa Lucinda, Paoluccia, Cecchina, Sandrina.]Libretto (T. Cadell, 1777) lists the parts: Il Cavaliere Armidoro, Il Marchese della Conchiglia, Tagliaferro, Mengotto, La Marchesa Lucinda, Paoluccia, Cecchina, Sandrina.]

Dance: End I: New Divertissement-[See17890110]; in which the Minuet of Iphigenia, as17890428; Pas de Deux Anacreontique, as17890428; End Opera: Les Caprices de Galatee, as17890523

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia; Or, The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: Almaviva-Kelly (of dl); Figaro-Borselli; Don Basilio-Torregiani; Don Bartolo-Benucci; Rosina-Sga Storace; The other Characters-Sga Delicati, Sga Giani; Libretto (L. Wayland, 1789) adds: Il Giovinetto-Delicati; Notaro-D@@; Alcade-Cardinale.
Cast
Role: Don Bartolo Actor: Benucci

Dance: End II: New Divertissement-[See17890110]; End Opera: La Nymphe et le Chasseur, as17890606

Music: End I: a Trio for Piano Forte Violin and Violoncello-Clementi, Cramer, Cervetto

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Vendemmia

Cast
Role: Il Conte Zefiro Actor: Benucci

Dance: End I: Admete-, as17890428; End Opera: Les Caprices de Galatee, as17890507

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Vendemmia

Cast
Role: Il Conte Zefiro Actor: Benucci

Dance: End I: Admete, as17890402; End Opera: a new Ballet, composed in Paris by Gardel Sen. for Mlle Guimard, Ninette a la Cour , Ninette -Mlle Guimard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Vendemmia

Cast
Role: Il Conte Zefiro Actor: Benucci

Dance: As17890404

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Vendemmia

Cast
Role: Il Conte Zefiro Actor: Benucci

Dance: End I: La Nymphe et le Chasseur, as17890319End Opera: Les Caprices de Galatee-. Galatee-Mlle Guimard