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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.

3651
27 July 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Ballad Opera. Edition of 1733: By a Gentleman late of Trinity-College, Cambridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Extravagance

Afterpiece Title: The Stage-Mutineers; or, A Playhouse To Be Lett

3652
14 August 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Ballad Opera. [By Robert Drury.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fancy'd Queen

Afterpiece Title: The Stage-Mutineers

Dance: SScotch Dance-Davenport, Miss Baston; Swedish Dal Karle-Delagarde, Mrs Ogden; Irish Trot-Bethen

3653
23 August 1733 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Fielding-Hippisley Booth, in the George-Inn-Yard. Mainpiece: A Dramatic Entertainment. Afterpiece: A Ballad Opera. Done from the French of Moliere. Intermix'd With Variety of Songs set to old Ballad Tunes, and Country Dances. 1 to 11 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Jealousy; Or, The Downfall Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: A Cure for Covetousness; or, The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: FFooting Dance-LeBrun, Mrs Ogden; Fisher Tench, Mlle D'Lorme

3654
23 August 1733 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At the Noted Yeates' Senior and Junior? Booth, the Upper End of Cow-Lane. A new Ballad Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress; With The Comical Humours Of The Yorkshire Waggoner

3655
23 August 1733 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Aston-Paget Booth, at the Horns-Inn in Pye-Corner. An entire New, Comick, Satyrical and Instructive Droll Opera. Noon to 10 p.m. N.B. Those that don't Laugh, Pay Nothing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patriot Merchant (the Lover Of His Country); Or, The Cheats Of The Times

Entertainment: 1.1. A Mock Song in Praise of Tea and Bread and Butter-; 2. The Servants' Revel-; 3. Ursula the Cook Maid's Rapture-; 4. Newgate and Tyburn-

3656
23 August 1733 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Lee-Harper Booth, over against the Hospital Gate. Mainpiece: a Celebrated Droll. Afterpiece: A new Pantomime Opera. The Book of the Droll is printed by G. Lee, Bluemaid Alley, Southwark. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow; Or, The Virgin Sacrifi'd; With The Comical Humours Of Captain Bluster And His Man Diddimo

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

3657
28 September 1733 @ Mile End Green

Event Comment: At a large commodious Room in Artichoke Yard at Mile-End, during the Time of the Fair ... a diverting Ballad Opera. Noon to 8 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Entertainment: Yeates Junior's Inimitable Dexterity of Hand

3658
30 October 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Pit and Boxes by tickets at half a guinea. Gallery $s. At 6 P.M. [Their Majesties and the Royal Family present. Composer and librettist not known.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

3659
31 October 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. With an entire new Sett of Scenes, particularly a view of Stocks-Market. Afterpiece: A new Farcical Ballad Opera. [Author unknown. Apparently not published.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: King and no King; or, The Polish Squabble

Dance: IV: A new Scots Dance by Miss Wherrit. V: Two Pierrots by D'Vallois and J. Delagarde

3660
03 November 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Lady Bristol to Lord Bristol, 3 Nov.: I am just come home from a dull empty opera, tho' the second time; the first was full to hear the new man, who I can find out to be an extream good singer; the rest are all scrubbs except old Durastante, that sings as well as ever she did. Letter Books of John Hervey, III, 108

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

3661
10 November 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 12 Nov.: The Royal Family were at the Opera, his Highness the Prince of Orange was there likewise in a Box next to that of the Princess Royal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

3662
13 November 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The opera ofoperas deferred by indisposition of a principal performer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris; With Harlequin Grand Volgi

3663
13 November 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Princess Royal's Marriage, being deferr'd, the Opera will be perform'd that Day as usual. Daily Courant, 14 Nov.: Last Night their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the three eldest Princesses . . . saw . . . Otho; but his Highness the Prince of Orange was not there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

3664
19 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Music: Second Musick: 1st Concerto of Corelli. Third Musick: Overture compos'd by Handel for the Opera of Alexander. I: A Concerto call'd The Cuckoo by Vivaldi

Performance Comment: Third Musick: Overture compos'd by Handel for the Opera of Alexander. I: A Concerto call'd The Cuckoo by Vivaldi .

Dance: II: La Basetelle by Essex, and Miss La Tour. In V: Les Amants Constants by Essex, Houghton, Miss Robinson, F. Tench, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

Song: II: Limpio Rigor del Fato and Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond by Miss Arne. IV: Per le Porte del Tormento by Miss Arne and Master Arne

3665
04 December 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Apostolo Zeno. Recitatives by Handel. Prince and three eldest Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caius Fabricius

3666
05 January 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Recitatives by Handel. Apparently not published, and Deutsch, Handel, p. 342, gives no cast. Their Majesties and three eldest Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arbaces

3667
05 February 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Music by Porpora. Apparently not published.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ferdinando

3668
12 February 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, and three eldest Princesses present. Egmont also present. For a satiric pamphlet on opera, see Harmony in an Uproar, dated 12 Feb.; much of it is reprinted in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 344-57.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

3669
26 February 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A revived opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Astartus

3670
22 March 1734 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit Caporale, First Violoncello in the Opera at the Hay-Market. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several Solos on the Violoncello by Caporale

3671
23 March 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A new opera.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Belmira

Dance:

3672
26 April 1734 @ Handel's Home

Event Comment: Mrs Pendarves, 27 April: Yesterday morning [26] at the rehearsal of a most delightful opera at Mr Handel's called Sosarme. Delany, Autobiography, I, 463

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarme

3673
30 April 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs Pendarves, 30 April: I go to-night... to Sosarmes, an opera of Mr Handel's, a charming one, and yet I dare say it will be almost empty!

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarmes

3674
18 May 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: An Opera, compos'd by Mr Handel. Intermix'd with Chorusses. 6:30 P.M. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido

3675
21 May 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Daily Journal, 21 May: We hear that the Mad Company at the Haymarket design to keep up that Character, by performing the Beggar's Opera in Roman Dresses, and exhibiting Hurlothrumbo, in which Mrs Charke attempts the Character of Lord Flame

Performances

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