Event Comment: 2nd ballet: With entirely new Scenery, Machinery, Dresses
and Decorations. The
Music entirely new, composed by
Millerd, composer for the ballets at the
Opera at Paris. In the course of the performance the Gr
and Procession of
Iphiginia into
Aulide. The Scenery, Machinery, &c. designed by
Marinari,
and executed by him
and his assistants. The decorations by
Johnston, the dresses by
Sestini. [Scenario published by
J. Hammond [1793].] The Managers beg leave particularly to request that no Gentleman will come behind the Scenes, as the number of people engaged in the ballet,
and the variety of scenery
and machinery, render such admission
highly inconvenient.
Morning Herald, 24 Apr,: The story [of the ballet] is perhaps not very intelligibly told; but the shew
and the dance are admirable. It begins
and concludes with magnificent processions, the last of which brings Iphiginia to the altar, where she is saved just as the holy knife is raised for the sacrifice. At this instant the chariot of the Sun, the brilliancy of which is much beyond any former representation of the sort, passes over the stage,
and is, for some time, suspended over the altar, while the whole corps de ballet offer their adorations