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We found 291 matches on Event Comments, 196 matches on Performance Title, 184 matches on Performance Comments, 73 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy

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.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lotharius

Event Comment: For a comment on this performance, see Rolli to Riva, 11 Dec., in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 249-50

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lotharius

Event Comment: [Text by S. Stampigli. Music by Handel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parthenope

Event Comment: A New Opera. [By Zeno. Music probably by Bartholmeo Cordans.-see Deutsch, Handel, p. 254.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ormisda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy

Performance Comment: Deutsch, Handel, p. 254 lists: Tolomeo-Bernacchi; Seleuce-Signora Strada; Elisa-Signora Merighi; Alessandro-Signora Bertolli; Araspe-Fabri.
Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Apostolo Zeno. Recitatives by Handel. Edition of 1731 gives no performers' names, but states: Done into English by Mr Humphreys.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wenceslaus

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text from Metastasio. Music by Handel.] Edition of 1731: Done into English by Mr Humphreys

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Event Comment: [For a reconstruction of the cast, see Deutsch, Handel, p. 274. Their Majesties present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rodelinda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Performance Comment: See reconstructed cast in Deutsch, Handel, p. 278.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

Performance Comment: Wherein Signora Bagnolesi, lately arrived from Italy, is to perform; but 2d edition of 1731 lists: Admeto-Senesino; Alceste-Signora Anna Bagnolesi; Hercules-Gio. Battista Pinacci; Trasimede-Antonio Guaxandi called Campioli; Antignona-Signora Anna StradadelPo; Meraspe-Antonio Montagnana. See also Deutsch, Handel, p. 278.
Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Translation by Samuel Humphreys.] Wherein the Cloaths and Scenes are all entirely New. Colman's Opera Register: But did not draw much Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aetius

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Handel. Done into English by Humphreys. Their Majesties, Prince, eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarmes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: When the fine Overture compos'd by the late ingenious Mr William Babell, for St. Cecilia's Day, will be perform'd with Trumpets, Hautboys, Violins, and Bassoons, with several other Pieces of Mr Handel's Composition, for Trumpets, French Horns by the best Masters. I: Mr Wm. Babell's Overture-; Overture Ptolomy-; Concerto Violin-; Hautboys Solo-; Concerto French Horns-; II: Overture Siroe-; Solo Flute-; Concerto Hautbois-; Seventh Concerto Corelli-; Concerto French Horns-; Several flute Pieces-Mr John Baston

Performance Comment: Cecilia's Day, will be perform'd with Trumpets, Hautboys, Violins, and Bassoons, with several other Pieces of Mr Handel's Composition, for Trumpets, French Horns by the best Masters. I: Mr Wm. Babell's Overture-; Overture Ptolomy-; Concerto Violin-; Hautboys Solo-; Concerto French Horns-; II: Overture Siroe-; Solo Flute-; Concerto Hautbois-; Seventh Concerto Corelli-; Concerto French Horns-; Several flute Pieces-Mr John Baston.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius

Performance Comment: For possible cast see Deutsch, Handel, p. 288.
Event Comment: Never Perform'd in Publick before. As it was compos'd originally for the most noble James Duke of Chandos, the Words by Mr Pope, and the Musick by Mr Handel. 7 p.m. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Music: Instead of Act Tunes will be perform'd Select Pieces of Musick adapted to various Instruments, Being deisgn'd as a Concert Intermix'd with the Play. For theOverture: a Grand Concerto- by Dr Pepusch, in which the Kettle Drums are principal,; accompanied with Trumpets Hautboys Violin-; The Kettle Drums-Mr Benj. Baker; V: That celebrated Piece, The Water Musick-; by Mr Handel, for Trumpets, French Horns, Kettle-Drums, Hautboys. Concluding with a Preamble on the Kettle@Drums-Benj. Baker

Performance Comment: For theOverture: a Grand Concerto- by Dr Pepusch, in which the Kettle Drums are principal,; accompanied with Trumpets Hautboys Violin-; The Kettle Drums-Mr Benj. Baker; V: That celebrated Piece, The Water Musick-; by Mr Handel, for Trumpets, French Horns, Kettle-Drums, Hautboys. Concluding with a Preamble on the Kettle@Drums-Benj. Baker.

Dance: II: Tambourin-Miss Rogers; In III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; III: Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; IV: Sicilian-Glover, Mrs Pelling; V: Comic Dance in the Footing Manner-Jones, Mrs Ogden, with some Additions to it, never performed before

Song: I: Mrs Wright

Event Comment: Composed by Mr Handel. With all the Grand Chorus's, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations, being the first Time it ever was performed in a Theatrical Way. Pit and Boxes at 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Zeno. Music probably by Caldara, with recitatives by Handel.] Colman's Opera Register: a New Opera Handell it did not take

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Papirius, The Dictator

Event Comment: For a comment on the season's operas, see See and Seem Blind...In a Letter from Lord B-to A-H-Esq. (London, 1732), part of which is reproduced in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 300-301

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Papirius

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Performance Comment: See presumed cast in Deutsch, Handel, p. 298.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy

Performance Comment: A possible cast is in Deutsch, Handel, p. 302.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: End Part I: Preamble on the Kettledrums-Baker; End part II: Tollet's Grounds-; on one Kettle-Drum, accompanyed with a Hautboy and Violin, in Scaramouch and Harlequin Dresses. Concluding with Handel's Grand Water Musick-; Thumoth also plays on Trumpet and German Flute-Thumoth

Performance Comment: Concluding with Handel's Grand Water Musick-; Thumoth also plays on Trumpet and German Flute-Thumoth.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

Performance Comment: Edition of 1733 does not list performers' names. See Deutsch, Handel, p. 307.
Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 28 March: Their Majesties, together with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses were again...to see Deborah...at which was likewise present one of the most numerous Audiences of Nobility and Persons of Distinction that has been ever seen in any Theatre. Egmont, Diary, I, 345: It was very magnificent, near a hundred performers, among whom about twenty-five singers. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah