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5842 results for: Keyword - Opera-House in the Hay-Market
We found 3321 matches on Event Comments, 2723 matches on Performance Title, 341 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5426
09 February 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: On Monday next an Italian Comic Opera , never performed before, call'd L'Amore Constante

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

5427
11 February 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Comic Opera in Italian and French, 3 Acts (Larpent MS 107). Subtitle, O Sia, Il Finto Femmina. La Musica e del Sig Leonardo Leo, Maestro di Capella Napolitano (Edition of 1752, Amsterdam). [Rich had applied for license to Duke of Grafton 8 Feb.] This day at Noon will be publish'd at 1s. L'Amor Costante, Dramma Comico, pe Musica, as it is acted at Covent Garden. With an English translation. Sold by H. Woodfall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'amour Costante

Dance: [Unspecified.]

5428
21 February 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tomorrow, by desire, Gli Amanti Gelosi, being the last time of performing the operas till Monday 4 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Cast
Role: Theodosius Actor: Smith
Role: Athanais Actor: Miss Bellamy, 1st appearance there in 4 years
Role: Aranthes Actor: Usher
Related Works
Related Work: The Weathercock Author(s): Theodosius Forrest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

5429
02 April 1754 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Passerini. [From charges and countercharges published in great length in the Public Advertiser, it appears that Sga Frasi had earlier arranged to produce Samson at the King's on this night for her benefit. Learning that the subscribers to the opera season could enter on their own tickets on this night she decided to change nights to avoid any losses, only to find that her singers were engaged at one theatre or another on other nights. Meanwhile, Signor Passerini got permission to have this night scheduled at King's for his wife's benefit, and Sga Frasi lost out all around. Passerini asserted that the charge for renting the Great Room, Dean St. Soho was 5 guineas for a night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone

5430
11 May 1754 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Vanneschi, manager of Operas (Larpent MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Attilio Regolo

5431
15 May 1754 @ The Chapel at the Foundling's Hospital, or at the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner

Event Comment: At the chapel of the Foundling Hospital. [Beard and Ch. Smith gave their services free. Deutsch notes that this is the first list of Messiah performers preserved at the Foundling Hospital. The treasurer of the Hospital recorded receipts from 1,219 tickets and by cash-#666 15s. and an outlay of #58 17s. 6d., for Musicians, singers, constables, &c. Net to Hospital: #607 17s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: [Deutsch, Handel, pp. 750-52, lists 33 musicians, 18 singers, five servants, plus a number of organ blowers, porters, and constables who put on this performance. Among the singers the following from the theatres and the opera performed: Beard, Giulia Frasi, Sga Galli, Christina Passerini, Wass, Baildon, and Baildon Jr Champness, Wilder, Dupre, Walz, Cox, and Legg.]

5432
29 May 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A new Musical Entertainment. Written by Mr Rolt, and set to Musick by Mr Arne. To begin at 6:30 p.m. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 3s. Originally announced for 4 Feb.; postponed to 11 Feb. because of the illness of Mrs Arne, and again. Mr Arne is obliged to inform the Publick...his new English Opera is called Eliza and the performance stopped by a Prohibition from the Lord Chamberlain (Daily Advertiser, 21 March)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eliza

Related Works
Related Work: Arden of Feversham Author(s): Eliza Haywood
Related Work: The Fair Captive Author(s): Eliza Haywood
Related Work: A Wife to be Let Author(s): Eliza Haywood
Related Work: Frederick, Duke of Brunswick Lunenburgh Author(s): Eliza Haywood
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Eliza Haywood

5433
04 June 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Not performed.] Last Night ththe new English Opera of Eliza was suppressed by an Order from superior Power, by which Means many Persons of Taste were deprived of a very elegant Entertainment, as it was universally acknowledg'd that this musical Performance was very extraordinary Merit, being a sensible Composition, calculated to convey the liveliest Ideas to the Fancy, and to awaken the Passions of very feeling Heart. It is said, that instigated by this Disappointment, Mr Arne will apply to P-t for a Bill to unnaturalize him, that he may then have the Privileges of an Englishman, as well as any Foreigner of them all (Gray's Inn Journal No 37, 8 June)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eliza

Related Works
Related Work: Arden of Feversham Author(s): Eliza Haywood
Related Work: The Fair Captive Author(s): Eliza Haywood
Related Work: A Wife to be Let Author(s): Eliza Haywood
Related Work: Frederick, Duke of Brunswick Lunenburgh Author(s): Eliza Haywood
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Eliza Haywood

5434
09 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by His Majesty's command. [John Pringle wrote to Blayney Townley on 14 Nov.: Great are the disputes at present between the rival theatres, vieing with each other in different characters which afford unusual entertainment to all frequenting the stage. His Majesty on Saturday night paid his first visit to Covent Garden in perference to the opera at Drury Lane, when Lady Townley by Pegg Woffington gave him great pleasure, with the addition of unusual huzzas in a part of the Miller of Mansfield." -Historical MS Commission, 10th Report, Appendix, Part IV (London 1887), p. 257.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Bambridge

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

5435
09 November 1754 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command No Persons Whatsoever to be admitted behind the scenes. A new Opera [Altered from Metastasio; Music by Hasse and Lampugnani.] with New Decorations and Dances. To begin at 6 p.m. Pit and Boxes a half guinea. Gallery 5s. [Repeated in the bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'ipermestra

Performance Comment: Hypermestra-Sga Mingotti; Lynceus-Ricciarelli; Danaus-Ciprandi; Elpinice-Sga Mattei; Plisthenes-Sga Curioni; Adrastus-Sga Mondini (Libretto of 1754).
Cast
Role: Plisthenes Actor: Sga Curioni

Dance: Pietro, Isaia Nieri, Arna Conti, Elizabeth Buggiani, Cosimo Marranesi

5436
09 December 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Text--Goldoni; first performance in England. Music by Sg Vinceni Ciampi. Play a New Italian Burletta. Printed books of the opera will be sold at the theatre. Ladies send servants at half three. [The Epilogue (Larpent MS 117) suggests lovemaking in crowded theatres (see 8 Jan. 1755)]: @Close pack'd they sit and woo with secret squeeze,@Attracting elbows, sympathetic knees...

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Famiglia De Bertholdi, Alla Corte Del Re Alboino

Performance Comment: The Larpent MS 116 copy, (Amsterdam, 1754) lists the parts: Alboino (King)-; Ipsicratea (Queen)-; Erminio (Confidant of the King)-; Bertoldo-; Bertoldino (his son)-; Menghina (Son's wife and mother of)-; Cacasemo-.

Dance: [Unspecified.]

5437
17 December 1754 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Possibly a pasticchio, as Galuppi's name is not mentioned. (See Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, p. 101).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Penelope

5438
14 January 1755 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. The Musick Compos'd by Sg Lampugnani

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

5439
03 February 1755 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New Comic Opera presented by Mr Giordani, with his Company, and La Signora Spiletta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'albergatrice

5440
17 February 1755 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New Italian Comic Opera. Benefit for Sga Spiletta and Giordani

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'albergatrice

5441
18 February 1755 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera.-The Musick composed by Sg Galuppi. New Cloaths, Scenes, and Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ricimero

5442
14 March 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Oratorio is publish'd this evening and will be sold at the theatre. We can assure the Public, that Mrs Cibber is very much recovered from her late indisposition; and will certainly appear tomorrow night in the character of Belvidera in Venice Preserved for the benefit of Mossop. This day publish'd at 4s. Songs in the New English Opera call'd The Fairies. Composed by Mr Smith. Printed for J. Walsh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abel

Music: I: Concerto on the Violin-Degiardini; II: An Organ Concerto by Arne-Mr Arne Jun

5443
12 April 1755 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [The first performance in England; text by Metastasio. The Musick composed by Sg Hasse (by Perez according to the Public Advertiser of 26 April).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ezio

Dance: new Dew Dances-

5444
24 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrington and Miss Young. Books of the opera will be sold at the theatre, at 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: HHornpipe-Poitier (by Particular Desire); Comic Dance-Granier and Mrs Granier

5445
28 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Howard and Mrs Lampe. Afterpiece: A Burlesque Opera not performed these 10 years [see 30 April 1742], being the sequel to the Dragon of Wantley. Music composed by the late Mr Lampe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Lady Moore; or, the Dragoness

Dance: CComic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

5446
17 May 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [T+The Beggar's Opera had been advertised as by desire, but seems not to have been played.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

5447
25 October 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The play of Merope will be reviv'd on Tuesday next, at Drury Lane, in which Mr Holland, who play'd the part of Oroonoko, will appear in the character of Eumenes. The Opera of the Fairies (By Desire) will be performed there someday next week. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Performance Comment: As17551003, but Others-_Johnson, _Clough, _Blakes, Miss _Minors.
Cast
Role: Others Actor: _Johnson, _Clough, _Blakes, Miss _Minors.

5448
09 December 1755 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Musick-Jomelli. Text by Metastasio. First performance in England

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

5449
13 February 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Introduction (tho left out of the Bills) was call'd for, & had some Applause (Cross). Books of the opera sold at the theatre. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Dance: I: New Dance-; II: Dance of Fantastical Spirits-; End: A Grand Pantomime Dance call'd The Garlands-the Children

5450
17 February 1756 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music-Galuppi; first performance in England. Text from Metastasio but altered by F. Vanneschi; additional airs by F. Giardini (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, p. 106.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade