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Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Text probably by J. J. Heidegger.] By Subscription, with the Pit and Boxes by ticket only (not to exceed 400). Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m. And Whereas there is a great many Scenes and Machines to be mov'd in this Opera, which cannot be done if Persons should stand upon the Stage (where they could not be without Danger) it is therefore hop'd no Body, even the Subscribers, will take it Ill that they must be deny'd Entrance on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

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Event Comment: By Subscription, as 25 May. According to Colman's Opera Register, 28 May, Mrs Robinson was ill and did not perform again during this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Event Comment: Not Acted these Sixteen Years. And all the Original Musick. The Habits, Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all other Decorations proper to the Play, being entirely New. Boxes 6s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. And whereas there are a great many Scenes and Machines to be mov'd in this Opera, which cannot be done if Persons should stand on the Stage, (where they could not be without Danger) it is therefore hoped no Person will take it ill that they must be deny'd Entrance on the Stage. Receipts: #198 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess; Or, The History Of Dioclesian

Event Comment: With all the New Scenes, Machines, and Cloaths belonging to the Opera. Admission as 1 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Event Comment: As 16 Feb., but admission as 4 Feb. At 6 p.m. No Person whatever to stand upon the Stage, by reason of the great many Scenes and Machines which are to be moved in this Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Event Comment: Benefit the Instrumental Musick. By Command. With all the Scenes and Cloaths belonging to this Opera, particularly the Fountain Scenev

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Music: Two New Symphonies-

Event Comment: By Command. Being the last Opera that will be perform'd this Season. Admission as 4 Feb. At 6 p.m. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleartes

Event Comment: With all the Original Scenes and Machines belonging to the Opera. Admission: Pit and Boxes 8s. Stage Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. This Opera will be performed without Scenes, The Stage being in the same Magnificent Form as it was in the Ball [on 21 Feb.]. Admission as 15 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. N.B. The Opera of Calypso is oblig'd to be deferred by Reason of Mrs Barbier's Indisposition. Receipts: #34 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Husband

Dance: Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Kellom's Scholar, Cook, Mrs Bullock, Salle, Mlle Salle

Event Comment: By Command. With all the Original Scenes, belonging to this Opera. Admission as 15 Dec. 1716

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Event Comment: [Author unknown. Apparently not printed.] A new Opera. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Admission as 5 Jan. N.B. Servants will be allow'd to keep Places. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wenceslaus

Event Comment: Receipts: #24 11s. The Opera of Calypso and Telemachus is oblig'd to be deferr'd by Reason of Mrs Barbier's being ill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Song: Leveridge, Cook

Dance: As17170125

Event Comment: By Command. Admission as 15 Dec. 1716. Being the last Opera that will be perform'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Titus Manlius

Event Comment: At Bullock's and Leigh's Great Theatrical Booth, in Angel-Court, next the King's Bench. Mainpiece: a Dramatick Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Soldier; Or, Love In Distress

Related Works
Related Work: The Parthian Hero; or, Love in Distress Author(s): Matthew Gardiner

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Adventures of Master Billy Softhead, His Mother, and Sister Sally

Related Works
Related Work: The Disappointment; or, The Mother in Fashion Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: With an entire Sett of New Scenes from the Opera, never us'd here before, and proper to this Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: With an entire Set of New Scenes from the Opera never us'd here before, and proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [Text by Lewis Theobald. Set to Music by John Galliard.] A new Opera of one Act. With Scenes, Machines, Habits, Dances, and all other Decorations proper to the same, entirely new

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Related Works
Related Work: Pan and Syrinx Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Opera in Dancing in Serious and Grotesque Characters. With all the Musick, Habits, Machines and other Decorations entirely new. Receipts: #47 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Amadis; or, The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine

Event Comment: [Written by Lewis Theobald.] The Music by Mr Galliard. By Subscription. A new Comic-Dramatic Opera. With all new Cloaths, and the Scenes are Machines after the Venetian Manner. N.B. There are above two Thousand Ells of Cloath employ'd in the Painting. Pit and Boxes by tickets only. Stage Boxes 15s. First Gallery 3s. Box in the Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Triumph

Related Works
Related Work: The Lady's Triumph Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: As 13 April. The Opera will begin precisely at 6, and the Entertainments are shorten'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Circe

Event Comment: By the Comedians from the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. An excellent new Dramatick Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Soldier; Or, Love In Distress

Performance Comment: Squire Softhead-Bullock Sr; Sally-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Squire Softhead Actor: Bullock Sr
Related Works
Related Work: The Parthian Hero; or, Love in Distress Author(s): Matthew Gardiner

Dance: Comical Scene-Mr Harper , Mimicking a Drunken Man; Newhouse, Pelling, Mrs Willis, Miss Francis

Event Comment: John Vanbrugh to Jacob Tonson (Vanbrugh, Works, IV, 125): The Opera will begin about the 10th of March under the Academy of Musick. It will be a very good one this year, and a better the next. They having engag'd the best Singers in Italy, at a great Price. Such as I believe will bring the Expences to about twice as much as the Receipts. But the fund Subscribed being about #20000, may probably Support it, till Musick takes such root, as to Subsist with less aid. The King gives a #1000 a year to it

Performances

Event Comment: [By Paolo Antonio Rolli. The Scenes by Roberto Clerici, Engineer to the Royal Academy.] A New Opera. Pit and Boxes by tickets only at half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Numitor

Event Comment: [Text by N. F. Haym. Music by G. F. Handel.] By Command Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 6:30 p.m. When the Tickets are dispos'd of, No Persons will be admitted for Money. The Diary of Mary Countess Cowper, p. 154: At Night, Radamistus, a fine Opera of Handel's Making. The King there with his Ladies. The Prince in the Stage-box. Great Crowd. Mainwaring, Handel, pp. 98-99: If the persons who are now living, and who were present at that performance may be credited, the applause it received was almost as extravagant as his Agrippina had excited; the crowds and tumults of the house at Venice were hardly equal to those at London. In so splendid and fashionable an assembly of Ladies (to the excellence of their taste we must impute it) there was no shadow of form, or ceremony, scarce inoeed any appearance of order or regularity, politeness, or decency. Many, who had forc'd their way into the house with an impetuosity but ill-suited to their rank and sex, actually Fainted through the heat and closeness of it. Several Gentlemen were turned back, who had offered forty shillings for a seat in the gallery, after having despaired of getting any in the pit or boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Radamistus