Event Comment: Last time of performing this opera

Event Comment: Last time of performing this opera

Event Comment: A new comic Opera; Music by Traetta

Event Comment: By particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction (on account of Mrs Cornelys Ball) the Opera will begin at 6:30 p.m

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing this opera this season

Event Comment: By particular Desire. The last time of performing this season. Whoever has any demands on Messrs Vincent and Gordon on account of the Opera are desired to render their Bill this morning at the Office in the Haymarket

Event Comment: A Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Music benefit for Mrs Pinto. Songs by Mrs Forbes, Master Brown, and Mrs Pinto. Concertos on the organ and Hautboy by Hook and Park. After which will be performed for the first time a Pastoral Serenata called Love and Innocence, in two acts composed by Mr Hook, with chorusses. An elegant transparent Temple of Apollo designed and painted by Sig Bigar, machinist to the Opera House. The Gardens will be additionally illuminated. Fireworks. The whole to conclude with a Ball

Event Comment: A new comic Opera. Music by Piccini. Pit and Boxes together and no Persons admitted without Tickets which will be delivered this day at the Office at 10s. 6d. Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. By their Majesties Commands no Persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes or into the Orchestra. Gallery Pit and Boxes open at Five. To begin precisely at 6:30 p.m. Vivant Rex at Regina. [Repeated.

Event Comment: [See note for 9 Jan. 1770 of a mild riot this night during best scene of The Orphan.] Afterpiece: A New Opera [by George Alexander Stevens] the Music composed by Mr Fisher. Books of the entertainment to be had at the theatre. Gave Duke of Glocester's Footmen #2 2s. (Account Book). [Afterpiece a roaring burlesque of Lee's Rival Queens. Larpent MS 302 includes Semi Chorus, Grand Chorus, and Perdiccas, not listed in the Playbill. The Court awakes with total hangover. Alexander orders a pot of coffee to clear his head. Thais begs him to leave the gout giving juice-Retire with me @ In my Chinese pavilion, drink some Tea." Afterpiece reviewed inthe Freeholder's Magazine for Jan.] Mr Shuter and Mrs Mattocks gave great satisfaction in their different characters; the words of the songs were written by Mr George Alexander Stephens, author of the celebrated Lecture upon Heads, and several other whimsical productions; and the airs which had Uncommon merit, were composed by Mr Fisher, a young genius, who has hitherto been but little known in the musical world. Receipts: #215 8s. 6d

Event Comment: A new comic Opera, Music entirely New-Giordani

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing this opera

Event Comment: Being the last of performing this opera

Event Comment: A new comic Opera; Music by Guglielmi. New Dances and Decorations

Event Comment: A Comic Opera. Music by Fischetti

Event Comment: A new Serenata, the Music by Dibdin. Admittance 2s. 6d. each person, coffee and tea included. The house will continue to be opened on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays until further notice. N.B. There will be an armed guard on horseback to patrol the roads. [The serenata was added to "the usual entertainment." Words by Bickerstaff, this was an Englished La Serva Padrona (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, Vol. 1, Col. 175. Rev. Ed., 1955).

Event Comment: The last time of performing a Comic Opera This Season

Event Comment: La By particular Desire of several of the Nobility and Gentry. Being the last time of performing a Comic Opera this Season

Event Comment: A new comic Opera. The music by Several Composers. With new Dances, new Cloaths, new Decorations. Pit and Boxes together and no persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered at the Office of the Theatre at Half a Guinea. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. By their Majesties Command, no Persons whomsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes or into the Orchestra. The Galleries, Pit, and Boxes to be opened at Five. To begin at 6:30 p.m. Vivant Rex et Regina

Event Comment: With Alterations. [No operas since 6 Nov. because of the illness of Ristorini.

Event Comment: A new Serious Opera. Music by several eminent Composers

Event Comment: Revived a favourite Serious Opera. The Music by several eminent composers

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera. The music by several eminent composers. Executed under the direction of Giordani

Event Comment: The new serious opera of Semiramide which was to have been perform'd this evening is deferr'd...owing to the indisposition of Tenducci