Event Comment: A New Comic Opera. Benefit for Sig Crosa who brought into England the comedy of Italy. Set to Musick by the celebrated Cocchi of Naples. [Subscriber's tickets will not be admitted this Night. La Maestra published this day.

Event Comment: An Italian Comic Opera by some performers just arriv'd from Paris. Went off pretty well, -a Girl greatly admir'd (Cross). [The girl seems to have been Sga Spiletta.] She plays off with inexhaustible spirits all muscular evolutions of the face and brows; while in her eye wantons a studied archness, and pleasing malignity. Her voice has strength and scope sufficient; has neither too much of the feminine, nor an inclining to the male. Her gestures are ever varying; her transitions quick and easy. Some over-nice critics, forgetting, or not knowing the meaning of the word Burletta, cry that her manner is outre. Wou'd she not be faulty were it otherwise? The thing chargeable to her is (perhaps) too great a luxurience of comic tricks; which (an austere censor would say) border on unlaced lasciviousness, and extravagant petulance of action (Paul Hiffernan, The Tuner, No 1). [Spiletta was the name of the character to whom Sga Nicolina Giordani gave such life that the name stuck to her. See Saxe Wyndham, Annals of Covent Garden Theatre.] [A Comic Opera by G. Giordani, Music by G. Cocchi-Nicoll, English Drama, III, p. 349.] Nothing less than the full price will be taken during the Performance. Printed books of the opera sold at the theatre. Tomorrow, Venice Preserved. [Murphy commented in Gray's Inn Journal (22 Dec.): "A great deal of whatever humour this production may contain, is certainly lost to an English audience; and the manner of acting, being a burlesque upon what people here are not very well acquainted with, is not universally felt. But notwithstanding these disadvantages, there is one among them, Sga Nicolina Giordani, who displayed such lively traces of Humour in her countenance, and such pleasing variety of action, and such variety of graceful deportment, that she is generally acknowledged to be, in that Cast of playing, an excellent comic actress."

Event Comment: A New Opera. The Musick newly composed by Cocchi. No persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Edition of 1759: Music by several composers directed by Gioacchino Cocchi. Simphony by Jomelli.] With new Decorations, Cloaths, and Dances. Pit and Boxes together, and no persons admitted without tickets, which will be delivered this Day at half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, no Person to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at half an hour after Six precisely. [This notice repeated in the bills.

Event Comment: A New Opera, with the Addition of a new Singer. Music by Cocchi

Event Comment: The last Night of the Subscription. A New Opera. Music by Cocchi. N.B. The opera will be continued for a few nights more for the benefit of actors and actresses. [The opera next season to be under Signora Mattei.

Event Comment: A New Serious Opera. Music by Cocchi

Event Comment: A favorite serious Opera. The music by several celebrated Composers. [Edition of 1765 lists music by Cocchi. Director of Ballet-Gallini.

Event Comment: A new serious opera. The music entirely New by Cocchi intermix'd with Grand Chorusses. By Command of their Majesties