Event Comment: A new Comic Opera; the
music entirely by
Paisiello [performed at the
Pantheon, 14 May 1791, as
La Molinarella].
Bianchi and Martini [i.e.
Martin y Soler] are both engaged as composers to this Theatre,
and will each preside at the harpsichord the three first nights of every new Opera of their composition. Pit 10s. 6d. Gallery 5s. No Money to be returned. The Doors to be opened at 6:30. To begin at 7:30 [see 30 Apr. 1795]. The Nobility are intreated to give directions to their servants to set down
and take up at the Theatre, with horses' heads towards
Pall Mall. On account of abuses practised in the names of the Subscribers it is become necessary to require the production of the Subscription Tickets both at the doors
and the Boxes, At the Chair-door in
Market-lane Subscribers only will be admitted. "The Pantomime is too much in the gaudy stile of
Italy,
and even in this respect the ballet-master is not well seconded by the machinist; the decorations were unfinished,
and the scenes clumsily shifted...We were sorry to find that the new
and superb room, which the proprietor was encouraged to build,
and Which was opened in its unfinished state last year, is now entirely shut up, through the cabal of some few of the subscribers who refuse a miserable guinea for its illumination. The inconvenience of getting away from the Theatre will consequently be severely felt by the Beau Monde" (
Morning Chronicle, 8 Dec.)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: L'amore Contrastato; Or, La Molinarella
Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Rovedino, Braghetti, Bonfanti (1st appearance in this country), Mme Morichelli, Sga Colombati, Sga Pastorelli. Cast from libretto (C. Clarke, 1794): Don Rospolone-Rovedino; Don Calloandro-Braghetti; Don Pistofolo-L. Bonfanti; Don Luigino-Torregiani; Rachelina-Sga A. Morichelli; Donna Eugenia-Sga Colombati; Amaranta-Sga Pastorelli.Dance: End I: a Divertisement-Mme Hilligsberg, others; End II: [a grand Heroic Pantomime Ballet composed by Onorati Giustino I Imperatore dei Romani [; or, Il Trionfo dell' Amore e dell' Amicizia-D'Egville, Gentili, Aumer, Mme Ferlotti [Rinaldi], Mlle Rosine, Mme DelCaro, Mme Hilligsberg