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Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Ross-Mlle Auguste had Tickets-(Cross). Tickets deliver'd out for the Provok'd Wife will be taken. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Auretti--she sick in bed (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mathews

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Mainpiece Title: The Rover; Or, The Banish'd Cavaliers

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Ballet: New Pantomime Ballet call'd% The Feast of Bacchus. Bacchus-Lucas; Satyrs-Granier, Leppie, Gosly, Dumai, Desse, Rochford; Cupid-Miss Valois; Bacchants-Mrs Granier, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs Viviez, Mrs Leppie, Mrs Dawson, Mrs Dulies; Tartars-Delaistre (1st time there), Mlle Capdeville

Performance Comment: Bacchus-Lucas; Satyrs-Granier, Leppie, Gosly, Dumai, Desse, Rochford; Cupid-Miss Valois; Bacchants-Mrs Granier, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs Viviez, Mrs Leppie, Mrs Dawson, Mrs Dulies; Tartars-Delaistre (1st time there), Mlle Capdeville.

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Mainpiece Title: Arminio

Dance: Directed by Gallini. Giovanni Gallini, Mlle Asselin, Maranesi, Signora Provenzale

Performance Comment: Giovanni Gallini, Mlle Asselin, Maranesi, Signora Provenzale.

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Mainpiece Title: Antigona

Dance: Director of the Ballet: Giovanni Gallini. Dancer: Gallini, Mlle Asselin, Maranesi, Signora Provenzale

Performance Comment: Dancer: Gallini, Mlle Asselin, Maranesi, Signora Provenzale.
Event Comment: [Sga Mattei announced her undertaking direction of Italian Serious Operas and Burlettas for the ensuing winter, promised the performance of them for the best advantage of the public, and listed the members of the company she had engaged: For Serious Operas: herself, Philippo Elisi (the first singer in Italy), Gaetano Quilice (tenor), Angiola Calori (second woman), Giovanni Sorbelloni (second man), and a new singer for the lowest character. For the Burlettas: Sga Paganini (the first female character and the foremost in Italy), Gaetano Quilice (the first man), Sga Eleardi (second woman), Paganini (second man), Signor N. N. (third man), Angiola Calori and Sorbelloni (to perform the serious parts in the Burlettas). Dancers: Mlle Asselin (first woman dancer), Gheradi (first dancer of the men, and ballet master), famed both in the serious and comic as well as for his invention as for exercises in dancing. There will also be other comic dancers, and figures both for the serious operas and burlettas.

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Mainpiece Title: Berenice

Dance: Madame Capediville, M. Restier, Mlle Auretti, Larivierre

Performance Comment: Restier, Mlle Auretti, Larivierre.
Event Comment: N.B. Mlle Heinel being indisposed with a cold prevents her dancing this evening

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori

Event Comment: A Favourite Comic opera. Music by Galuppi, with new dances and decorations. N.B. Mlle Heinel will dance every night performance when the public have not previous indication to the contrary. [Probably cancelled on account of the death of the Princess Dowager of Wales.

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Mainpiece Title: Felosofo Di Campagna

Event Comment: The last night of the Subscription of this Season. N.B. By particular desire many of the Nobility and Gentry who are engag'd to Drury Lane Theatre on Tuesday next for the benefit of decay'd actors, the last serious opera of Demetrio (Music entirely new, Composed by Guglielmi) is deferred till Wednesday next when Mlle Heinel is to dance for the last time of her engagement in England

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

Dance: As17720519

Event Comment: N.B. Mlle Heinel having been desired by several of the Nobility to appear once more upon the stage this season, she is happy that an opportunity presents itself. [She thanks them for the flattering reception she has met with in England.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrio

Dance: As17720603

Event Comment: The Managers wishing to merit that generous encouragement with which they have been honoured have postponed the opera until 20 November to wait for the arrival of Mlle Mimi and Nina Faviere, the principal serious Women Dancers who are not yet arrived from Florence

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Event Comment: The Maid of the Oaks [announced on playbill of 14 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Mlle Dupre's sudden illness. Paid 2 Oylbills to Oct. 25 #253 7s. Receipts: #98 12s. 6d

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Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End II: As17761101

Event Comment: [For the dance the playbill lists The Savage Hunters, but "Last night Sga Ricci being suddenly taken ill...Gallet and Mlle Dupre undertook at a short notice to dance The Triumph of Love" (Morning Post, 10 Jan.).] Receipts: #217 10s. 6d. (190.14.0; 25.7.0; 1.9.6)

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Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: As17761212

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Mainpiece Title: Medonte

Dance: End of Act I New Divertisement, as17821130; End of Opera a new grand Ballet, composed by Lepicq, Il Ratto delle Sabine; or, The Rape of the Sabines, by Lepicq, Henry, Zuchelli, Degville Sen., Slingsby, Mlle Theodore, Sga Crespi, Mme Rossi. [Partial cast from Public Advertiser, 14 Dec: Romolo-Lepicq; Acronte-Zuchelli; Erfilia-Mme Rossi.]

Performance Comment: , Slingsby, Mlle Theodore, Sga Crespi, Mme Rossi. [Partial cast from Public Advertiser, 14 Dec: Romolo-Lepicq; Acronte-Zuchelli; Erfilia-Mme Rossi.] hathi. hathi.

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Mainpiece Title: [entertainments Of Music And Dancing] A Grand Symphony By The Celebrated Band Of The Opera House

Performance Comment: The Peasant Metamorphosed, as17840430 Hornpipe, as17840430 A Grand Instrumental Concert. The Country Squabble, as17840430 New Pastoral Pas de Deux by Duquesney Jun. and Mlle Constance (from the Theatre Royal, Paris). The Rival Clowns, as17840430, but added: Mrs Dagville; in which Orpheo, as17840430.
Event Comment: Morigi's sudden Indisposition, together with Mlle Dorival's Illness, makes it necessary to postpone the Comic Opera [I Viaggiatori Felici, announced in Public Advertiser, 23 May] and Dances, advertised for this Evening

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Mainpiece Title: Orfeo

Dance: As17850512, but performers not listed

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Mainpiece Title: Ifigenia In Aulide

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Marchesi, Forlivesi, Balelli, Torregiani, Fineschi, Mlle Chanu Pieltain, Sga Giuliani. Cast from libretto (C. Etherington, 1789): Achille-Luigi Marchesi; Agamemnone-Giuseppe Forlivesi; Ulisse-Balelli; Calcante-Paolo Torregiani; Arcade-Fineschi; Erifile-Sga Pieltain; Ifigenia-Sga Giuliani.

Dance: As17890110

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Billington. Mainpiece: 1st time at this Theatre [1st performed at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 3 Jan. 1784]. The Music by Gluck [whose opera this actually was, with additions by] Handel, Bach, Sacchini, Reeve, and Mazzinghi. With an entire new Overture composed by Gyrowetz. In II Weichsel will accompany an obligato song on the violin. Dances by Byrne and Mlle St.Amand. With new Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years [acted 27 May 1791]. Morning Herald, 9 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Billington, No. 53, Poland-street. Receipts: #371 15s. (257.18.6; 8.15.6; tickets: 105.1.0) (charge: #105)

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Mainpiece Title: Orpheus And Eurydice

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: Sweet Bird(by Handel)-Mrs Billington; accompanied on the violin-Weichsel

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Goostree, Creswell, Farley, Mlle St.Amand, Mrs Watts will be admitted.] Receipts: #226 4s. 6d. (105.7.6; 4.8.6; tickets: 116.8.6)

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Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Dance: As17951125

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Mrs J. Brandon, Hawtin, W. Wilde, Bent, Coombs, Wilkins, Hay, Mlle delaCroix will be admitted. Receipts: #442 10s. 6d. (65.0.0; 3.10.0; tickets: 374.0.6)

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Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Performance Comment: As17991014, but Selim-Kelly; Beda-Miss Leak; added: Mlle Parisot (By permission of the Proprietor of the Opera House, who will perform for this night only in the Ballet in the First Act); Female Slaves-Miss _Daniels.