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3691 results for: Keyword - Opera, Vienna
We found 2383 matches on Performance Title, 1498 matches on Event Comments, 212 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3501
29 June 1776 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The last Opera this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

Dance: As17760413 End II: Diane et Endymion, as17760312

Ballet: Astolphe. As17760413

3502
05 November 1776 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera; the Music by Paisiello; under the Direction of Giardini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fraschetana

Dance: As17761102

3503
25 January 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: Arbaces-Leoni; Artabanes-Reinhold; Rimenes-Mahon; Artaxerxes-Mrs Farrell; with a new air-Mrs Farrell (1st appearance in this opera); Semira-Miss Dayes; Mandane-Miss Catley (1st appearance in that character these 3 years).

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: End: The Villagers, as17770122

3504
17 April 1777 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. A new Comic Opera [usually entitled L'Isola di Alcina]; the Music by Gazzaniga. Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 8, Great Suffolk-street, Hay-market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alcina

Dance: As17770313

Song: With the Alterations of two new songs-Sga Sestini; a favourite one-Sga Sestini

3505
13 May 1777 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Not performed [see 20 May]. Public Advertiser, 14 May: "The Managers of the Opera [are] extremely concerned for the Disappointment of last Night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Capricci Del Sesso

3506
11 November 1777 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Opera having been found too long on the first Representation has since been revised and curtailed to a proper Length

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Due Contesse

Dance: As17771108

3507
26 December 1777 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: On Account of the Holidays there will be No Opera till the 3d of January

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

3508
05 January 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Tomorrow being Twelfth Night there will be no Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

3509
26 March 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jermoli. A new Comic Opera; the Poetry by Goldoni; the Finales and Airs by Piccinni and Paisiello. [Performed on 24 Jan. 1786 as Il Marchese Tulipano.] Tickets to be had of Jermoli, No. 29, Cockspur-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Marchese Villano

Dance: As17780203

3510
02 April 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Todi. Opera: The Music by Piccinni. Tickets to be had of Sga Todi, No. 12, Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: As17780203 throughout

3511
25 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brown. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Midas [announced on playbill ff 24 Apr.] cannot be performed on account of Wilson's sudden illness. Tickets delivered for Love Finds the Way will be admitted, that Opera being unavoidably postponed on account of Mrs Farrell's Indisposition. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Brown, No. 10, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #150 18s. 6d. (89.17.6; tickets: 61.1.0) (charge: #67 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17780424

3512
23 June 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The last Opera this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'amore Soldato

Dance: As17780609

3513
18 September 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; CO I, by Charles Dibdin, based on Rose et Colas, by Michel Jean Sedaine]. 3rd piece [1st time; CO I, by Charles Dibdin, based on Les Femmes Vengees, by Michel Jean Sedaine]: With new Scenery [Public Advertiser, 19 Sept.: by Richards] and Decorations. Both the Musical Pieces, with new Overtures, composed by Dibdin. Books of the new Musical Pieces to be had at the Theatre. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon (only) at the Stage Door. No Money to be taken at the Stage Door, nor any Money to be returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 21 Sept.]. Public Advertiser, 18 Sept.: This Afternoon at Three will be published Rose and Colin and The Wives Revenged (each 6d.). "At this season of the year the little company upon the Ton, who are in town, seldom rise from the table till after the beginning of the play; in order, therefore, to obviate the disturbance that the fracas in the boxes usually makes towards the close of the first act, or the beginning of the second, this comic opera [Rose and Colin] was prefaced. It at the same time affords these late comers an opportunity of seeing the play [i.e. the mainpiece] complete" (Town and Country Magazine, Sept. 1778, p.453)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

3514
23 January 1779 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Serious Opera [1st time; SER 3, by Pietro Metastasio]. The Music entirely new by Bertoni

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

Dance: End I: new Ballet, Les Oiseleurs-Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli, Mlle Vidini, LeDet; End II: Les Moissonneurs, as17781229; End: Les Nymphes de Diane, as17781124

3515
26 January 1779 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: On account of the Preparations for the Masqued Ball to-morrow, there will be no Opera this Evening

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

3516
01 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Miles Peter Andrews and William Augustus Miles; Larpent MS 485; not published; Synopsis of plot in London Magazine, July 1779, pp. 306-7]: The Airs partly selected from Dibdin, Giordani, Dr Arne, &c. The Overture and New Music composed by Dr Arnold. With New Dresses and Decorations. The Scenes painted by Rooker. Songs of the Opera to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement; Or, An Adventure At Margate

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Dance: Mainpiece: With Two New Dances-(see17790705

3517
03 July 1779 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The last Opera This Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Dance: As17790629

3518
11 December 1779 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The new Operas [see 14 Dec.] which were intended for this Evening are obliged to be postponed till Tuesday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alessandro Nelle Indie

Dance: As17791127

3519
04 January 1780 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: There will be no Opera till Saturday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

3520
18 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Charles Dibdin: With New Scenes and Dresses. The Overture, and all the Music entirely new, composed by Dibdin. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 18 Jan. 1780: This Afternoon is published The Shepherdess of the Alps (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #158 13s. (156.16.6; 1.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Shepherdess Of The Alps

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: As17791022

3521
18 January 1780 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: There will be no Opera this Evening, on account of Her Majesty's Birthday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

3522
14 April 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by William Augustus Miles]: The music entirely new, composed by Michael Arne. With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 15 Apr. 1780: This Day is published The Artifice (1s.). Receipts: #119 8s. 6d. (71.12.0; 47.1.6; 0.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: The Artifice

3523
09 May 1780 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Comic Opera [1st time; COM 3]. Written by Badini; the music entirely new composed by Bertoni

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Duca D'atene

Dance: End I: new ballet, Il Filosofo (composed by Zuchelli)-Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli, Sga Tantini, Slingsby; End II: La Serenata Spagnola Interrota [see17800420]-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Sga Baccelli, Henry, Guiardele; [with a Pas de Deux-; accompanied on the guitar-Noferi; End III: New Serious Ballet (composed by Guiardele) [in which-Mme Simonet,[will dance in Men's Cloaths with Sga Baccelli, Sga Tantini, Guiardele; to conclude with: a Grand Chaconne [of Jomelli-

3524
09 June 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Beggar's Opera is obliged to be deferred. [Mrs Hedges is identified in Morning Chronicle, 9 Dec. 1780.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End IV 2nd piece: As17800530

3525
10 June 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Beggar's Opera, announced on playbill of 9 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: As17800609