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4320 results for: Keyword - Opera at Paris
We found 2826 matches on Performance Title, 1555 matches on Event Comments, 437 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3526
06 April 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Original Weekly Journal, 6 April: We are told that the Italian Singers at our Opera, to the Number of five, of whom two are Eunuchs, have obtain Permission from the King of France...to go over thither in July next, for the Theatre, and a Gratuity of 35,000 Livres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Erminia

3527
15 April 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Richard Patrick and John Tomkins, Doorkeepers to the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: Scaramouch-a Boy of Nine Years of Age

3528
22 April 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Peppet and Mrs Bryars, Boxkeepers to the Opera, and Betty Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: James, Mrs Ratcliff

3529
14 May 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. By Reason of the shortness of the Opera, to begin exactly at Eight a-Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius

3530
27 May 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: At 7 p.m. Tomorrow being His Majesty's Birth-Day occasions the Opera being perform'd this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius

3531
22 August 1723 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Lee's Great Theatrical Booth over against the Hospital Gate. Mainpiece: A Dramatic Opera. A Masque of Paradise, with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Edenv, the Serpent, and all the Creation, the Heavens open, the Sun appears, and an Angel descends and drives them thence. With Scenes, Machines, and Decorations proper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wisdom Of Solomon; Or, The Two Harlots

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Humours of Toby Stag, the Huntsman, and a Merry Poet

3532
20 February 1724 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Admission as 14 Jan. Daily Journal, 21 Feb.: Last Night his Majesty, the Prince and Princess, with great Numbers of the Nobility, went to see the new Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

3533
12 March 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit John Rudd, Boxkeeper to the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Dance: As17240309

3534
25 March 1724 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit Castrucci, First Violin to the Opera. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several concertos, solos-Castrucci of his own composition; Concerto-Corelli; Composition with an Eccho-

3535
17 October 1724 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Journal, 17 Oct.: We hear there is a new Opera now in Practice...called, Tamerlane, the Musick composed by Mynheer Hendel, and that Signior Borseni, newly arriv'd from Italy, is to sing the Part of the Tyrant Bajazet. N.B. It is commonly reported this Gentleman was never cut out for a Singer

Performances

3536
12 December 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #69 4s. 6d. Mrs Pendarves to Mrs Ann Granville, 12 Dec. (Delany, Autobiography, I, 101-2): I was to see the opera of Dioclesian, and was very much disappointed, for instead of Purcell's musick which I expected, we had Pepusch's, and very humdrum it was; indeed I never was so tired with anything in my life

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Music: As17241128

Dance: As17241128

3537
17 December 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the Company of Italian Comedians, just arriv'd. Mainpiece: an Italian Comedy. Afterpiece: Opera Comique. At 6 p.m. Boxes by printed tickets only at 5s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Metamorphoses D'arlequin

Afterpiece Title: L'Isle des Amazones

3538
19 March 1725 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit Castrucci, first Violin to the Opera. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several new compositions-; , particularly the Feasts of the Piazza y Spagnia-; , in which you will hear two Trumpets on the Violin-Mr Castrucci

3539
16 April 1725 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Dykes, Boxkeeper to the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Statue, Enfant & Peroquet

Afterpiece Title: La Matrone D'Ephese; ou, Arlequin Diane

Dance: Roger, the Little Scaramouch

3540
18 December 1725 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For an essay on music and operas, see Mist's, 18 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rodelinda

3541
01 February 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: UUniversal Mercury, February 1726: Elisa...an Opera of a foreign Growth, and of which they promis'd us Wonders before it was brought over. But when it arriv'd, we soon found to our Cost, that its being far fetch'd and dear bought was the only thing that could recommend it: But even that would not do long, and Audiences grew so thin, that the Royal Academy, for fear of making another Call, was oblig'd to drop it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elisa

3542
08 February 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Prince and Princess of Wales present. Universal Mercury, February 1726: Mr Handel had the Satisfaction of seeing an old Opera of his not only fill the House, which had not been done for a considerable time before, but People crowding so fast to it, that above 300 were turn'd away for want of room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

3543
21 September 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 21 Sept.: A Company of Italian Comedians recently arrived here from beyond Sea, and being patronized by the Dukes of Montague and Richmond, 'tis said, that Leave will be given them to perform in the Opera-House in the Hay-Market

Performances

3544
21 October 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. For the better Information of those who do not thoroughly understand the Italian Language, a Book with the Argument and Explanations in English, of what is transacted in every Scenes, may be had...at the usual Places in the Opera-House. Price 6d. [The King, Prince, and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Island Of Arcadia; Or, The Magician Doctor, With Harlequin King Of The Woods; Flights, Decorations And Transformations Of Harlequin, Cupid, Pantalon, Venus, And Brighella, Jupiter, And The Sacrifice Of Harlequin

Dance: Furies, Nymphs, Shepherds, Statues-; , the latter performing the Labours of Hercules-Statues , after the Manner of the Venetian Gondaliers at Venice: The whole full of Variety

3545
26 November 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #116 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 191 paid and 12 orders; pit, 262 paid and 5 orders; slips, 25 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 242 paid and 6 orders; second gallery, 50 paid and 1 order. For an essay on Camilla, see London Journal, 26 Nov. Mrs Pendarves to Anne Granville, 27 Nov.: I was at the opera of Camilla...performed by a Mrs Chambers, Mrs Barbiere, Mrs Fletchere, a Signor Rochetti, Mr Leveridge, Mr Legard. I can't say I was much pleased with it, I liked it for old acquaintance sake, but there is not many of the songs better then ballads.-Mrs Delany@Autobiography, I, 125

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

3546
13 February 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Written by Lewis Theobald. Set to Music by Galliard.] The Entertainment being entirely new Dress'd: With New Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s. Receipts: #216 12s. Probable attendance: boxes, 269 paid; stage, 1 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 274 paid and 4 orders; slips, 54 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 456 paid; second gallery, 195 paid. Mist's, 18 Feb.: It is of the Nature of Pantomimes, partly grotesque, and partly vocal, but far exceeds all ever yet shewn, in the Magnificence and Beauty of the Scenes, the Number and Richness of the Habits, as well as the Fable, which is purely poetical, as the Italian Operas ought to be. [See also London Journal, 18 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine; With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

3547
25 February 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a letter on opera, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 25 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

3548
04 March 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For an essay on opera, see British Journal, 4 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

3549
08 April 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Brighella. By His Majesty's Command. [The opera had to be postponed because of the indisposition of a performer.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Dama Demonio, E La Serva Diavolo: Viz, The Mistress Demon By Diana, And The Maid Devil By Argentina: With The Comical Frights Of Pantalon And Harlequin

Dance: Dancing In Serious and Grotesque Characters-

3550
08 November 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 9 Nov.: Yesterday the new Opera of King Richard I was in Rehearsal...where was a prodigious Concourse of Nobility

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard I