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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. Tickets for The Comical Lovers [advertised on 22 Feb. for this day] taken at this play

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Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

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."

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Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

Event Comment: Mrs Moore's tickets for 3 March taken this day

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Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

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Event Comment: Benefit Corbett. At 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music by William Corbett-; with several pieces for Flutes-; Concerti Grossi-; including a new Italian solo-Corbett, being his first public appearance

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Santlow. The tickets given out for She Would and She Would Not taken on this day

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Song: As17070204

Dance: Cherrier, Miss Santlow; particularly a new Dutch Skipper-

Event Comment: Benefit Keen. By Subscription of several Persons of Quality. At 6 p.m. Tickets 5s

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-; particularly several new pieces for trumpets and flutes by Corbet-; a solo-Dean; a new cantata-one who never performed in public before; variety of singing-

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

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Mainpiece Title: Thomyris

Event Comment: At Hickford's Dancing Room in James's-street in the Hay-Market, over against the Tennis Court. At 7 p.m. Tickets 21s

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: By direction of Sig Francisco Conti, the Consort of Musick-Sig Francisco Conti for her Majesty, and which he had the Honour to perform at court upon the Union-day; Singing-La Signiora Margaretta the Baroness, Il Signior Valentino; and there is to be several Instrumetns, and the said Great Theorbo, La Mandelitta an Instrument hitherto unknown-Signior Conti

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hall, Daughter to William Hall, who formerly had the Consort of Musick at his House in Norfolk-street. At 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the greatest Masters

Event Comment: Benefit Signiora Margaretta Gallia. At 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; with several new Songs and Sonatas never yet perform'd by Signior Joseph Saggioni-the best Masters; the Vocal part both in English and Italian-Signiora Maria Margaretta Gallia

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. Tickets given out for Saturday 3 taken this night

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Mainpiece Title: Liberty Asserted

Event Comment: Benefit Knapp, Mynns, and Newman. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Tickets given out for Othello taken at this play.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

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.

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Mainpiece Title: Thomyris Queen Of Scythia

Event Comment: Benefit Viner. At 8 p.m. Tickets 5s

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-the best Masters; including variety of sonatas-Bannister, Paisible, Lully, Dupar; singing-Leveridge, Mrs Lindsey; a sonata on the Flute D'Almain-Pietro; Corelli's Sixth Double Note Solo-Viner

Event Comment: At 7 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d. At Queen Street and Frith Street

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

Event Comment: Note, The Words of the Songs and other Particulars of the Entertainment will be Printed and Sold to the Audience. Tickets 5s. At 6 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-the best Performers the music composed by Claxton Jr for the Entertainment of the Foreign Ministers and other Persons of Quality

Dance: Several Grotesque Dances-; particularly The Whip of Dunboyn-Claxton Sr

Event Comment: Admission by tickets only to pit and boxes, not to exceed 400, at 7s. 6d. Stage Boxes half a Guinea. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. No Person to stand upon the Stage. Receipts: #77 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: Cherrier, Debargues, Mrs Debargues

Event Comment: [Words by P. A. Motteux.] Never perform'd before. The Dances, Choruses, and other Entertainments being properly introduc'd as on Foreign Stages. Admission to pit and boxes by tickets only (not to exceed 400) at half a guinea; stage boxes, half a guinea; first gallery 5s., upper gallery 2s. 6d. Receipts: #240 6s. 9d

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Mainpiece Title: Loves Triumph

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Rogers. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets for Sir Fopling Flutter taken at this play

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Mainpiece Title: Mithridates King Of Pontus

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh. Tickets 3s. At 7 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-; viz. A full Piece of the late Mr Henry Purcell-Dean, Holmes, Feiston; A new Set of Airs for the Arch Lute and Violin Composed on purpose by Tho. Dean-; That celebrated Sonata for a Violin and Flute made by the famous Signor Gasperini, and played by him and Paisable often before her Majesty, and at the Theatre,-two young Gentlemen that never Play'd in Publick; who also perform some new Italian Sonatas of the most Eminent Masters in Europe, Double/stopped Solos of the Famous Archangelo Corelli-two young Gentlemen; Singing to the Lute-Dean; Several Pieces for Trumpets Flutes and Haut/boys-; Also Select Airs out of the Operas of Camilla and Thomyris, with their Symphonies-the best Performers

Performance Comment: A full Piece of the late Mr Henry Purcell-Dean, Holmes, Feiston; A new Set of Airs for the Arch Lute and Violin Composed on purpose by Tho. Dean-; That celebrated Sonata for a Violin and Flute made by the famous Signor Gasperini, and played by him and Paisable often before her Majesty, and at the Theatre,-two young Gentlemen that never Play'd in Publick; who also perform some new Italian Sonatas of the most Eminent Masters in Europe, Double/stopped Solos of the Famous Archangelo Corelli-two young Gentlemen; Singing to the Lute-Dean; Several Pieces for Trumpets Flutes and Haut/boys-; Also Select Airs out of the Operas of Camilla and Thomyris, with their Symphonies-the best Performers.
Event Comment: Benefit Valentini. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Admission to pit and boxes by tickets only at half a guinea

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Mainpiece Title: Loves Triumph

Event Comment: Benefit Pack. Note, That the Tickets which were deliver'd out for Hamlet will be taken at this Play

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Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Event Comment: Benefit Boman. Note, That all the Tickets deliver'd out for The Relapse will be taken at this Play

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Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba Or Hannibals Overthrow

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

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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.

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Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius