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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: British Fortitude

Afterpiece Title: Marian

Performance Comment: Edward-Johnstone; Sir Henry Freeman-Incledon; Robin-Townsend; Thomas-Gray; Jamie-Powel; Peggy-Mrs Mountain; Patty-Mrs Martyr; Marian-Mme Mara (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Marian Actor: Mme Mara

Dance: In II 1st piece: As17971006

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17971115, but Justice Woodcock-Munden; new songs-Mme Mara (as Rosetta).
Cast
Role: new songs Actor: Mme Mara
Role: Rosetta Actor: Mme Mara

Afterpiece Title: Botheration

Afterpiece Title: Voluntary Contributions

Dance: End I 1st piece: The Statute Dance-

Song: In 2nd piece: Mr O'Blarney's Description of London, as17980508

Event Comment: Among the principal instrumental performers are G. Ashley, leader of the band; C. Ashley, W. Parke, Boyce, R. Ashley, Parkinson, Woodham, Jenkinson, Bridgtower, the Munros, Purney, the Cantelos, Taylor, Lavenu, M'Intosh, Gwilliam, Nix, Cobham, Leffler, Betts, Piele, Flack, Dressler, Cornish, I. Sharp, W. Sharp, M. Sharp, J. Sharp, Archer, Ware, Wood, G. Jones, Moorehead, Slezak, Francis, Jackson, Beale, Skillern, Abbot, &c. Organ-J. Ashley. The Band and Chorusses will be numerous and complete; and assisted by the trombones and double drums used at Handel's Commemoration at Westminster Abbey [in 1784]. The whole under the direction of Ashley, Sen. Places for the Boxes to be had of Brandon at the Stage Door. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout oratorio season]. Half Price will be taken at the end of the second part. Boxes 6s. Pit 3s. 6d. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Books of the Performance (with the imprimatur of E. Macleish) to be had at the theatre, price 6d

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Performers-Master Elliot, Incledon, Sale, John Sale, Denman, Bartleman, Mme Mara, Miss Capper, Mrs Atkins.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Performance Comment: Overture (Esther)-; The Dettingen Te Deum-; Holy Holy Lord-Mme Mara.
Cast
Role: Holy Holy Lord Actor: Mme Mara.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: Overture and Dead March (Saul)-; Select Parts of the Funeral Anthem-; Lord what is man?-Miss Capper (Semele); Tears such as tender-Bartleman (Deborah); When his loud voice-Chorus (Jephtha); What though I trace-Mrs Atkins (Solomon); Angels ever bright and fair-Mme Mara (Theodora); March, The trumpet's loud clangour-Chorus (Dryden's Ode).

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: Fourth Oboe Concerto-; Farewell you limpid springs-; Deeper and deeper still-; Waft her angels-Mme Mara (Jephtha); From harmony-Chorus (Dryden's Ode); Softly sweet in Lydian measure-Master Elliot; accompanied on the violoncello-C. Ashley (Alexander's Feast); He layeth-Bartleman [Ezio]; O God who in-Chorus [Joseph]; O magnify the Lord-Mrs Atkins (Chandos Anthems); The Horse and his rider-Chorus (Israel in Egypt).
Cast
Role: Waft her angels Actor: Mme Mara

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Performance Comment: Overture and March (Scipio)-; The smiling dawn-Mrs Atkins (Jephtha); Then round about the starry-Chorus (Samson); The Lord is a man of war-Bartleman, Sale (Israel in Egypt); Softly rise-Incledon; bassoon obligato-Parkinson; Ye southern breezes-Chorus (Boyce's Solomon); What tho' I trace-Mme Mara (Handel's Solomon); Gird on thy sword-Chorus (Saul).
Cast
Role: What tho' I trace Actor: Mme Mara

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: Select parts of the Water Music-; Shake the dome-Chorus (Solomon); Thou shalt bring them in-Miss Waters; Wave from wave-Bartleman (Israel in Egypt); Happy Iphis-Miss Capper; Deeper and deeper-Incledon; Waft her angels (Jephtha)-; The soldier tired-Mme Mara (Arne's Artaxerxes); Gloria Patri-Chorus (Jubilate).
Cast
Role: The soldier tired Actor: Mme Mara

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: Overture (Ariadne)-; With plaintive notes-Mrs Atkins (Samson); I feel the Deity-Bartleman; Arm arm ye brave, Ee come-Chorus (Judas Maccabaeus); Gentle airs-Incledon; accompanied on the violoncello-C. Ashley (Athalia); Mad Bess-Mme Mara (Purcell); Rule Britannia, God save the King-Chorus.
Cast
Role: Mad Bess Actor: Mme Mara

Music: As17990213

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music

Performance Comment: As17930215, but Principal Vocal Parts-Mme Dussek, Mme _Mara.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Performance Comment: O the pleasures of the plains-Chorus [Acis and Galatea]; When storms the proud-Reynolds; O Judah-Chorus [Athalia]; Here amid-Miss Sharp [Alexander Balus]; What's sweeter than the new blown rose-Mrs Crouch, Kelly [Joseph]; Your harps and cymbals sound-Chorus [Solomon]; Why doth the God of Israel sleep-Incledon [Samson]; I know that my redeemer liveth-Mme Dussek [The Messiah]; Kings shall be thy nursing fathers-Grand Chorus [Coronation Anthems].Coronation Anthems].

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: Eighth Concerto-(Corelli); How willing-Bartleman [Samson]; Hear us O God-Chorus Coronation Anthems]; Deeper and deeper still, Waft her angels to the skies-Kelly [Jephtha]; From harmony-Chorus [Dryden's Ode]; The Captive Kings-Incledon, Chorus [, as17930306 Captivity-Mrs Crouch [, as17930220; Let the Bright seraphim-Mme Dussek; Let their celestial concerts-Chorus [Samson]; God save Great George our King, To Arms, Britons strike home-Chorus (Purcell).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Performance Comment: See17870322nd 17 Apr. introduced 8 new songs-: 3-Mme Mara, 2- Mengozzi, 1- Balelli, 2- Rubinelli.

Dance: As17870120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music

Performance Comment: As17930215, but Principal Vocal Parts-Mrs Clendining, in place of Mme _Mara , "who is still indisposed, and cannot perform this Evening.".

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Event Comment: Benefit for the Humane Society. A new grand Commemorative Oratorio [1st time; in two parts], as originally performed by Busby, in aid of the Fund for the Naval Pillar, including the new Music [by Busby: Song and Chorus, From where the sun; Song, To thy brave sons; Recitative and Song, Peace to the soul, Around the ever-honoured urn], introduced in the Grand National Concert, performed the 28th of May, at the Opera House. Leader of the Band-Cramer. Organ-Russell. The performance to be conducted by Busby, who will preside at the Piano Forte. Tickets, at playhouse prices, to be had at all the principal music shops...and of Busby, No. 9, China Terrace, Vauxhall Road. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00. "The words [of Part I] are taken entirely from Gray's well-known Pindaric Ode, The Progress of Poesy," with six introductory lines written by John Gretton andthe concluding stanzas by Thomas Dutton; the text of Part II by Gretton (Dramatic Censor, II, 285-86)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

Performance Comment: Principal Performers-Master Elliot, Walker, Page, Denman, Mme Mara, Miss Jackson, Miss Holland (1st appearance).
Event Comment: A revived Serious Opera, with Grand Chorusses, New Dresses and Decorations; the Music by Sacchini. "In the second act [Mme Mara, who sang Andromeda] was encored in a song of Bravura . .. The amazing extent of her voice never appeared in a more conspicuous light... As to the Chorusses, we understand that they were under the immediate direction of Mme Mara, which accounts for the uncommon precision with which they were executed" (General Advertiser, 22 Mar.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Perseo

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Babbini, Tasca, Bartolini, Schinotti, Simonetti (1st appearance); Sga Catenacci, Mme Mara. [Libretto (T. Cadell, 1774) lists the parts: Perseo, Barsene, Cefeo, Anfrisio; Andromeda, Tomiri.] hathi.

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement Villageois, as17860218; End of Act II Dance incidental to the Opera by Henry, Duquesney Qun.], the two Mlles Simonet; End of Opera New Divertissement, as17860311athi

Event Comment: Alceste is unavoidable postponed on account of the indisposition of Mme Mara. Receipts: #246 11s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Giannina E Bernardone

Dance: End I: Divertissement, as17870116; End Opera: an allegorical Ballet, composed by Hus, divided into 3 Quadrilles, L'Heureux Evenement-Goyon, Laborie, Mlle Mozon, Henry, Gricourt, Sala, Mme Delfevre, Mme Bithmer, Giorgi, Mme Gervais Perignon

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Hilligsberg. Tickets to be had of Mme Hilligsberg, No. 115, Jermyn-street. 2nd ballet: With new Scenery by Belenger and new Dresses by Sestini. The greater part of the music by Mazzinghi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramide

Cast
Role: Semiramide Actor: Mme Brig. Banti

Dance: End I: New Divertisement, in which the Pas Russe-Mme Hilligsberg, Mme Hilligsberg's sister in men's clothes; End II: a new Grand Dramatic Pantomime Ballet, in 3 parts, composed by Onorati, Paul et Virginie-Gentili, Aumer, Lahante, Simpson, Mme DelCaro, Miss J. Hilligsberg, Mme Rossi, Mme Hilligsberg who will perform in men's clothes and dance a Scotch Reel in that character

Performance Comment: Hilligsberg, Mme Rossi, Mme Hilligsberg who will perform in men's clothes and dance a Scotch Reel in that character.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Hilligsberg. Tickets to be had of Mme Hilligsberg, No. 43, Gerrard-street, Soho. 2nd ballet: Music by J. Mazzinghi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Cast
Role: Elfrida Actor: Mme Banti

Dance: End I: Le Triomphe de Themis, as17971226; Pas Russe-Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg; End Opera: a new Pastoral Ballet in 4 acts, composed by S. Gallet, Elisa; ou, Le Triomphe de la Nature-Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg, Didelot, Mme Rose, Miss Hilligsberg, Mme Laborie, Gourlier, Master Laborie

Performance Comment: Gallet=, Elisa; ou, Le Triomphe de la Nature-Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg, Didelot, Mme Rose, Miss Hilligsberg, Mme Laborie, Gourlier, Master Laborie.
Event Comment: "The company [of spectators] was so numerous that there was hardly room on the stage for the performers to go through their pans . . . Mme Simonet displayed all that power of acting for which she has been so justly celebrated since the first introduction of the ballets called 0?Action when first Vestris held the sceptre of Terpsychore at the King's Theatre [in 1780-81]" (Public Advertiser, 18 Feb., which also has a synopsis of the action)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Convito

Dance: End of Act I Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830128; End of Act II an entirely new ballet of Serious, Comic, and Demi-characters, composed by Lepicq, Les spouses Persanes; or, The Persian Wives, by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Slingsby, Henry, Zuchelli, Sga Crespi, Mlle Theodore, Mme Simonet. [Cast from Public Advertiser, 18 Feb.: Tamas-Lepicq; Hircana-Mme Rossi; Osman-Slingsby; Mahmoud-Henry; Boulganzar-Zuchelli; Slaves-Sga Crespi, Mlle Theodore; Fatima-Mme Simonet; Assan-Degville Sen.]

Performance Comment: [Cast from Public Advertiser, 18 Feb.: Tamas-Lepicq; Hircana-Mme Rossi; Osman-Slingsby; Mahmoud-Henry; Boulganzar-Zuchelli; Slaves-Sga Crespi, Mlle Theodore; Fatima-Mme Simonet; Assan-Degville Sen.] hathi. hathi.
Cast
Role: Hircana Actor: Mme Rossi
Role: Fatima Actor: Mme Simonet
Event Comment: Benefit for Mme LeBrun. Tickets to be had of Mme LeBrun, No. 36, Great Suffolk-street. "In the year 1781, Pacchierotti had been heard so frequently, that his singing was no impediment to conversation, or even to animated narrative and debate; but while the elder Vestris was on the stage, if during a pas seul, any of his admirers forgot themselves so much as to applaud him with their hands, there was an instant check put to his rapture by a choral hu-sh! For those lovers of music who talked the loudest when Pacchierotti was singing a pathetic air, or making an exquisite close, were now thrown into agonies of displeasure, lest the graceful movements du dieu de la dance, or the attention of his votaries, should be disturbed by audible approbation" (Burney, II, 893)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zemira And Azor

Cast
Role: Zemira Actor: Mme LeBrun.

Dance: End I: The Pert Country Maid, as17810113; End II Grand Serious Ballet, as17801216, but Mlle _Baccelli, Mme Simonet; with a +Pas@Solo-Vestris Sen.; accompanied with the oboe-LeBrun; a Pas de Deux-Vestris Sen., Mme Simonet; to finish with a Grand Chaconne-Vestris Jun.; End Opera: The Rural Sports, as17810123

Performance Comment: ; accompanied with the oboe-LeBrun; a Pas de Deux-Vestris Sen., Mme Simonet; to finish with a Grand Chaconne-Vestris Jun.; End Opera: The Rural Sports, as17810123. End Opera: The Rural Sports, as17810123.

Music: II: a concerto on the piano forte-Mme LeBrun

Song: a song by LeBrun-Mme LeBrun; accompanied with the hautboy-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone Abbandonata

Cast
Role: Didone Actor: Mme Mara.

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement Villageois, as17860124, but omitted: Spozzi; End of Opera a new Ballet Historique, Acis and Galatea, by Vestris, Sga Carolina, D'Egville, Henry, Sga Crespi, Duquesney Jun., the two Mlles Simonet, Master D'Egville, Mme Harvey, Mlle Mozon. [Morning Post, 20 Feb. assigns: Acis-Vestris; Thetis-Mlle Mozon.]

Performance Comment: , the two Mlles Simonet, Master D'Egville, Mme Harvey, Mlle Mozon. [Morning Post, 20 Feb. assigns: Acis-Vestris; Thetis-Mlle Mozon.] hathi. hathi.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone Abbandonata

Cast
Role: Didone Actor: Mme Mara.

Dance: As17860218 throughout, but Acis and Galatea here entitled a New Divertissement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone Abbandonata

Cast
Role: Didone Actor: Mme Mara.

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement by Vestris, Henry, Duquesney [Jun.], the two Mlles Simonet, Mlle Mozon, &c.; End of Opera Divertissement Villageois, as17860218

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone Abbandonata

Cast
Role: Didone Actor: Mme Mara.

Dance: As17860225 throughout

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone Abbandonata

Cast
Role: Didone Actor: Mme Mara.

Dance: As17860225 throughout

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Cast
Role: Virginia Actor: Mme Mara.

Dance: As17860427 throughout

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Cast
Role: Virginia Actor: Mme Mara.

Dance: As17860516 throughout

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Cast
Role: Virginia Actor: Mme Mara.

Dance: End of Act I Les Deux Solitaires (composed by Giroux) by Vestris, Fabiani, Mlle Mozon, Henry, Mlle Crespi, Miss Hervey, Duquesney Dun.], the two Mlles Simonet, Mlle Baccelli; End of Opera La Fete Mariu, as17860516

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Armida

Cast
Role: Armida Actor: Mme Mara.

Dance: End of Act I Les Amans Surpris (not performed these 4 years [not since 30 June 1781]) by Vestris, Rochfort (1st appearance in England), Fabiani, Mlle Mozon, Mlle Baccelli; End of Opera Ninette a la Cour (not performed these 4 years [not since 3 July 1781]) by Vestris, Rochfort, Fabiani, Mlle Mozon, Mlle Baccelli. In the course of the ballet The Minuet de la Cour, with a favourite Gavotte, by Fabiani and Mlle Carolina, and a Pas de Deux of a particular Invention (the music newly composed by Mortellari) by Mlle Baccelli and Vestris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Armida

Cast
Role: Armida Actor: Mme Mara.

Dance: As17860523 throughout

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Cast
Role: Virginia Actor: Mme Mara.

Dance: End of Act I L'Amour Jardinier, as17860406; End of Opera Les Deux Solitaires, as17860523