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 Per
formance 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 Per
formance to begin at 10:00. Books of the Per
formance 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 per
former...
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