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6040 results for: Keyword - Opera House, Paris
We found 3135 matches on Event Comments, 3014 matches on Performance Title, 498 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

176
23 January 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Opera of Pyramus and Thisbe is oblig'd to be deferr'd till further notice, on account of the Indisposition of one of the performers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

177
13 December 1763 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera, The Music entirely new, excepting in the three favorite Airs of Signora Mingotti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Dance: I: A Dance called The Turkish Coffee House-; II: A Tyrolese Wedding-; III: A New Dance-for Mr Duberval

178
10 January 1764 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new opera set to Musick by Vento

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Leucippo

Dance: I: The Turkish Coffee House, as17631213; II: A new Dance-Signora Marcucis, just arrived from Italy; III: A New Dance, as17631213; a new Dance Le Matellot Provencalle-Fischar, Miss Auretti call'd Le Matellot Provencalle

179
08 March 1727 @ Spring Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Pardini. At the Great House the Lower End of Spring Garden, Charing Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The best Hands from the Opera

180
08 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #153 7s.; tickets #12 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 184 by money and 49 by tickets; stage, 58 by money; balcony, 3 by money; pit, 281 by money; slips, 39 by money; first gallery, 381 by money; second gallery, 180 by money. Daily Journal, 8 Feb.: The Beggars Opera...meets with that universal Applause, that no one third Part of the Company that crowd thither to see it, can get Admittance: Which occasions a new Run to the Provok'd Husband at Drury-Lane; and so proves an equal Advantage to both Houses

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

181
07 February 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 8 Feb.: Yesterday...some Persons in the gallery were so clamorous that the Play could not go on, but a Constable, assisted by a Serjeant and the Guards, prevail'd on them to walk out. gne of them was carried before a Justice of the Peace, and confess'd what he had done. It is to be observ'd that this Person had the Scornful Lady lately acted for his Benefit, in Consideration of his withdrawing a Play which was offer'd by him to be acted there, which Play we hear is since carried to the other House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Village Opera

182
22 March 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Applebee's, 31 March: On Thursday 7-Night last at the Performance of...Love runs all Dangers...one of the Commedians took the Liberty to throw out some Reflections upon the Prime Minister and the Excise, which were not design'd by the Author; Lord Walpole being in the House, went behind the Scenes, and demanded of the Prompter, whether such Words were in the Play, and he answering they were not, his Lordship immediately corrected the Comedian with his own Hands very severely

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Love Runs All Dangers

Dance: End of Mainpiece: Hornpipe-Jones Sr; Concluding with a Dutch Skipper-Jones Sr, Jones Jr

183
30 April 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Christian, formerly Miss Vaughan. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir Richard Steele. [Tickets at Christian's House, No. 23, Prescott Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: LLe Minuet-D'Vallois, Mrs Nelson; Pierrot and Pierraite-D'Vallois, J. Delagarde; La Provansalle-D'Vallois; V: French Wooden Shoe Dance-D'Vallois

184
26 April 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Roberts. Tickets at Mrs Roberts' House in Duke Street, near lif

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: I: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; III: Punch-Master Ferg; V: La Pieraite-Livier, Miss Thompson

185
05 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Harper. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. [Tickets at Harper's House in Bridges Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Punches Dances-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

186
05 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shepard. Tickets of Hobson at the stage Door. Mr Shepard humbly hopes his friends will not be offended at the Alteration of the play, he being oblig'd to change it on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. The Tickets deliver'd for Henry VIII will be taken this night (London Daily Post and General Advertiser). Shepard belonged for many years to the House. Fleetwood dismissed him. Let him have a benefit for the money accrued to him. Beard ill and did not act. (Winston MS. from Dyer MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: End of Farce:By Particular Desire, Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

187
15 January 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: [Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. in Daily Advertiser; no bill in General Advertiser. Possibly not acted; see 22 Jan.] Benefit a Gentleman and his Family Under great distress. Tickets may be had of Daniel Findon, Union Coffee House, Cornhill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

188
22 January 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman and his Family under great Distress. Prices. 3s., 2s., 1s. Tickets of Daniel Findon, Union Coffee House, Cornhill. [Blakey was down for Filch in the advance notice of 21 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: Brett

Dance: As17460114

189
27 February 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: TThe Suspicious Husband deferr'd by Garrick's Indisposition (General Advertiser). [The House this night carried on its books a profitable balance of #2416 6s. 8d.] Receipts: #100 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: As17461231

190
28 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Mainpiece: For the last time this season. Afterpiece: By Desire. Stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets deliver'd out for The Recruiting Officer will be taken. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Powel: Rec'd of Mrs Rudd, Fruit Woman, in Part #9. Receipts: #240 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #78 15s. 6d.; tickets, #99 2s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

191
15 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Leviez and Sullivan. Stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Receipts: #213 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #63 0s. 6d.; tickets, #150 14s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: II: Powerful Guardians from Alexander Balus-Sullivan; III: With Ravish'd Ears-Sullivan; V: a Favourite song in the Opera Artamene-Sullivan

Dance: I: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Louvre, Minuet-Leviez, Anne Auretti; V: Shepherd's Dance-Cooke, Janeton Auretti

192
02 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Raftor, I. Sparks (Cross). Last week Mr Garrick Paid to Mr Belchier, Banker in Lombard St., #208 1s., being the whole money receiv'd at the Benefit Play of King Lear, which he most generously gave for the relief of the unhappy sufferers by the late most dredful fire in Cornhill, &c., whithout deducting any charges whatsoever. [See note, 3 May] Receipts: #180 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #56 19s. tickets, #128 10s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Savoyards, as17471215

193
29 December 1748 @ New Wells, Shepherd's Market

Event Comment: At the New Wells, Shepherds Market, May Fair. Daily Advertiser, 3 Jan. 1749: The House being so crowded on Thursday last, Tickets that could not be taken will be admitted on Thursday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: JJockey Dance-Adams

194
01 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #150 13s. 6d. Paid Ledley for 20 dozen Wax Candles #31; Paid Mr Richards for painting the Slaughter House, Ox &c. [See The Fair, 10 Dec. 1759] #10 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17600108

195
24 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire; Last time of performing it this season. Afterpiece: Not acted these two years. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Stage 5s. Those who have places either in the Boxes or the Pit are requested to come thro the Box-Lobby, as at an Oratorio; and to send their servants to keep places by 3 o'clock. Tickets to be had of Mr Beard, at his house next Old Slaughter's, St Martin's Lane; and of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door where places for the Boxes may be taken. Receipts: #129 1s. plus #246 from tickets (Boxes and Pit 984). Total income #375 1s. Charges #63. [Beard found his own wax candles]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: CCountry Dance-Characters of the Opera; A Hornpipe-Miss Dawson; End II: A New Dance call'd The Shepherdess-Miss Wilford

196
18 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Charles Sarjant, (house keeper). Tickets deliver'd for the Wonder will be taken. Receipts: #69 2s. 6d. plus #73 2s. from tickets (Box 125; Pit 223; Gallery 84) (Account Book). Charges:#80 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mrs Vernon; a Country Dance-the Characters in the opera; End II: Les Charboniers, as17601215

197
03 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Tickets to be had of Mrs Sparks, at her house in Crown Court. Tickets deliver'd out for the Distress'd Mother will be taken. N.B. Mr Sparks having been very long indisposed and rendered incapable of attending the theatre, with the greatest deference persuades himself that Circumstance will readily plead his Apology, and induce his friends to dispense with his personal appearance, and favor him with their commands; and that they will excuse the changing of his play, to which he is oblig'd by the illness of a principal performer; of which and his former obligations, he shall always retain the most gratful sense. [Sparks had been ill since 14 Jan. when Hull took over his part of Buckingham in King Richard III.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Counterfeit

Song: Between Acts: some Favorite Songs from the English Opera Artaxerxes-; viz: I: In Infancy our hopes and fears-Tenducci; II: If e'er the Cruel Tyrant Love-Miss Brent; III: Water parted from the sea-Tenducci; IV: Let no rage thy bosom fire-Miss Brent

Dance: TThe Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

198
17 September 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Love play'd Mrs Peachum very bad. Her fit seem'd a very Aukward Imitation of Mrs Pritchard in the Jealous Wife (Hopkins). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No money received at the Stage Door. None returned after the curtain is up. Play to begin exactly at 6 o'clock. Places may be had of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door. Vivat Rex et Regina. [Customary notice, which will not be repeated here, Sept. 15 David Garrick & his Lady set out for Italy from his house in Southampton St. Covent Garden (Winston MS 9). Winston also refers to a Sept. 9 Letter from T. Davies, cg, to the poet Charles Churchill begging he would not introduce so unimportant a person as himself in his Smithfield Rosciad.] Receipts: #248 9s. (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

199
27 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson, West, Lings. House charges #84. [Deficit to actors #60 4s.] Received Mr Evans and Miss Roger's deficiency #28 18s. 6d. Paid Ann Collett for a gold brocaided silk #10 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #23 16s. (Treasurer's Book). Went into ye Pit...Vernon is an excellent MacHeath. I don't like Yates as Peachum so well as Shuter, and Parsons is not so good a Filch as Holborn. Bransby ye Lockit and Mrs Abington Lucy pretty well...Polly-$Mrs Vincent, who is now too old for ye character, and I think wants feeling...One Tomlinson, who had a 4th of the Benefit, spoke an Epilogue in the character of a Beggar, but by one party hissing and a greater clapping, could not hear it.--At Covent Garden a Hurdy-Gurdy man and girl play in the whore's scene, and as the Highwaymen march out, one returns and kisses MacHeath, and Shuter says some things Yates did not, but perhaps they are additions of his own (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

200
17 December 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Hull the balance of his night of The Royal Merchant the 16th Inst....#38 14s. Paid also the Extra Charge and allowed again for the same night...#3 10s. (Account Book). [Hull seems to have protested the charge of candles, drum & chorus in addition to the high house charge of #84, and seems to have succeeded.] Receipts: #141 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17671114; End of Opera: A New Comic Dance, as17671024