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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."

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Mainpiece Title: L'amanti Gelosi

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Related Work: L'amanti Gelosi Author(s): Giuseppe Giordani

Dance: [Unspecified.]

Event Comment: A new Serious Opera. Music by Giordani and other eminent composers

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Mainpiece Title: Antigono

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Related Work: Antigono Author(s): Tommaso Giordani

Dance: I: A Grand Serious Ballet, never performed-Mariottini, Nina Favier; II: Pastoral Ballet, as17740222

Ballet: End of Opera: Orfeo e Eurydice. Orfeo-Pitrot; Eurydice-Mlle Mimi Favier

Event Comment: Opera: The Music by several eminent Masters [Giordani, Traetta, Hasse, Vento]; under the Direction of Giardini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

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Related Work: Antigono Author(s): Tommaso Giordani

Dance: End I: La Force de l'Amour, as17761214; End II: Serious Ballet, as17770225; End Opera: Les Amusemens Champetres, as17761102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Honorius

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Calascione

Dance: Between the Acts: Dancing-

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Mainpiece Title: Medea

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Song: The Azure God, composed by Giordani, sung-Mrs Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

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Related Work: Artaserse Author(s): Tommaso Giordani

Dance: End I: new Ballet, Les Oiseleurs-Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli, Mlle Vidini, LeDet; End II: Les Moissonneurs, as17781229; End: Les Nymphes de Diane, as17781124

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Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

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Related Work: Artaserse Author(s): Tommaso Giordani

Dance: As17850329hroughout

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera; the Music by Anfossi [with additions by Tommaso Giordani]; under the Direction of Giordani

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Vera Costanza

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Related Work: La Vera Costanza Author(s): Tommaso Giordani

Dance: End I: Les Bohemiens, as17771216; End II: Serious Ballet, as17771209, but Mme _Simonet; End Opera: La Clochette, as17771115

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Nicolina Giordani [By Command of] the Duke and Princess Amelia (Cross). The Manager of Covent Garden being under a necessity of interrupting the run of the new Tragedy of Philoclea by a Command, and a Benefit for Sga Nicolina Giordini (which was settled before the coming out of that play) has been so obliging as to give the Author the choice of a day for his second benefit; and many of his friends having taken places for Tuesday, as that would have been his sixth night in course, the Author, lest they should be disappointed, has chosen Tuesday for his second benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Amanti Gelosi

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Related Work: L'amanti Gelosi Author(s): Giuseppe Giordani

Dance: As17531217

Event Comment: A New Comic Opera presented by Mr Giordani, with his Company, and La Signora Spiletta

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Mainpiece Title: L'albergatrice

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Related Work: L'Albergatrice Author(s): Giuseppe Giordani
Event Comment: A New Italian Comic Opera. Benefit for Sga Spiletta and Giordani

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'albergatrice

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Related Work: L'Albergatrice Author(s): Giuseppe Giordani
Event Comment: A new comic Opera, Music entirely New-Giordani

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Mainpiece Title: Il Padre E Il Figlio Rivali

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Related Work: Il Padre E Il Figlio Rivali Author(s): Tommaso Giordani
Event Comment: A new Serious Opera. The Music by Giordani and other eminent composers. With alterations and new songs for Miss Davies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

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Related Work: Artaserse Author(s): Tommaso Giordani

Dance: I: New Serious Ballet-; in which aChaconne composed by Jomelli-Fierville; II: La Bagatelle, as17740505; III: L'Embarass du choix, as17740505

Event Comment: Opera [1st time; Past 3, author unknown]. The music [to Part I] composed by Giovanni Battista? Bianchi, [to Part II by] Rauzzini, [to Part III by] Giordani. With Grand Chorusses. With new Decorations devised and painted by Novosielski, and new Dresses. The Side-boards, with a cold Collation and all sorts of Wines, at 12 o'clock. The Performance under the direction of Vestris Sen., and to conclude with a Ball. Tickets, at 2 Guineas each, are ready to be delivered at the Office in Union-court, where Boxes may be taken. No Masks will be admitted. The Doors will be opened at 9:00, and the Performance to begin at 10:00. Books of the Performance will be given out (gratis) at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 7 June: The Omaggio, or homage paid by the vassals and tenants to their Lord, is naturally calculated to give free scope to lively, and sentimental music. In the former stile Bianchi and Giardini [sic] were equally succesful; and in the latter Rauzzini was surprisingly great, both as composer and performer...Slingsby would, in our opinion, have come out with as great a share of applause as the best of them, having to go through an English dance in his own stile, but by some unaccountable accident...the music-band stopped short when he was in the very climax of his exertions. The scenes are in the rural stile, with the addition of natural trees, flowering shrubs, &c., set in the neatest order...The company did not begin to move till about four, and by five the rooms were cleared. Public Advertiser, 7 June: The Vestris' gave incontrovertible proof of the variety of their powers...They did more, they shewed what this country had never seen-the possibility of presenting to the eye a large and extensive stage filled with dancers all in motion at the same time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'omaggio

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Related Work: L'Omaggio Author(s): Giuseppe Giordani

Dance: Incident to the piece: Ballets by Vestris Sen.-Vestris Sen., Vestris Jun., Simonet, Slingsby, Traffieri, Zuchelli, Henry, Mme Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Sga Crespi, Sga Zuchelli, Miss Stageldoir, Miss Armstrong

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mountain. Afterpiece [1st time in London; M. INT 2, by Walley Chamberlain Oulton, 1st acted at Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 12 Mar. 1789, Larpent MS 835; not published]: The Music by Tommaso? Giordani. Receipts: #213 17s. (80.0.6; 6.3.6; tickets: 127.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: Perseverance; or, The Third Time the Best

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Related Work: Perseverance; or, The Third Time the Best Author(s): Tommaso Giordani

Entertainment: Monologue. End: As17890514

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of NOTORIETY, advertised on playbill of 23 Oct.] Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2 , by Mrs Burke. MS: Larpent 992; not published]: With new Music [by Tommaso Giordani (Morning Herald, 25 Oct.)). Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #228 0s. 6d. (206/10/6; 21/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: THE WARD OF THE CASTLE

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Related Work: The Ward of the Castle Author(s): Tommaso Giordani

Song: In afterpiece Chorusses by Linton, Tett, Sawyer, Little, Street, Kendrick//Miss Stuart, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Mrs Castelle, Miss Kirton, Mrs Lloyd, Miss Paye, Miss Leserve, Mrs Bayzand, Mrs Blurton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah; Alexander's Feast; Grand Selection 0

Music: End Part I: 3rd concerto of Giardini on the violin-G. Ashley; End Part II: concerto on the Piano Forte-Dussek

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Kent

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: End: The Taylors, as17740428

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lo Studente A La Moda

Performance Comment: Palmiero-Giuseppe Giordani; Don Saverio-Antonia Giordani; Violante-Marina Giordani; Odoardo-Francesco Lini; Don Gianandrea-Francesco Giordani; Giulietta (Serva di Casa )-Nicolina Giordani (Libretto of 1754).

Dance: Entertainment-[unspecified]

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Marina Giordani. Full Prices (Cross). A new Italian Comic Opera. The Music composed by Balthazar Galuppi. Ladies desired to send servants by Half an Hour after Three. This day publish'd at 1s. La Cameriera Accorta, Opera Comico, per Musica, as it is acted at Covent Garden. With an English Translation. Sold by H. Woodfall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cameriera Accorta

Performance Comment: Odoard-Francesco Lini; Leonora-Signora Marina Giordani; Silvio-Signora Antonia Giordani; Diamantina-Nicolina Giordani; Vanesio-Giuseppe Giordani; Perillox-Francesco Giordani [The Artful Chambermaid, 1754 libretto).].The Artful Chambermaid, 1754 libretto).].

Afterpiece Title: Enterntainment

Dance: [Unspecified.]

Event Comment: A New Serious Opera [1st time; SER 2, by Teresa Bandettino]; the Music [a pasticcio] by Sarti, Giardanello [i.e. G. Giordani], Tarchi and Federici. Under the direction of Federici. With new Dresses, Scenes, &c. [In 2nd ballet the playbill retains Nivelon as Achilles , but "Favre Gardel took the part of Achilles, vice Nivelon' (Diary, 12 June).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Odenato And Zenobia

Dance: End I: Le Jaloux Puni, as17930601 but Mlle _Gardel, Master Menage; +The Court Minuet-Favre Gardel, Mlle Millerd; a new Pas Seul-Mlle Hilligsberg

Ballet: End Opera: Iphiginia in Aulide. As17930423, but Achilles-Favre Gardel; Egisthus-Aumer? [see17930615 and 17930618

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music, From The Works Of handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Music: End II: concerto on the grand piano@forte-Master Neate

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire; or, Harlequin in the Peak