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4116 results for: Keyword - Opera-Office in the Haymarket
We found 2454 matches on Performance Title, 1866 matches on Event Comments, 224 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3551
24 May 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Composed by Egidio Duni Nepolitano.] 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

3552
25 May 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The hay advertised for 30 May and later two plays which never got staged: Macheath turn'd Pyrate; or, Polly in India. An Opera. Very much taken, if not improv'd from the famous Sequel of the late celebrated Mr Gay. With a New Prologue, proper to the Occasion. And after the Run of that, the Town will be entertain'd with a new Farce of two Acts, call'd The King and Titi; or, The Medlars. Taken from the History of Prince Titi, Originally written in French, and lately translated into English

Performances

3553
07 September 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of his Excellency Admiral Perez Bashaw, and Ambassador Extraordinary from the Emperor of Morocco. Written by Shakespear. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: Othello-Stephens; Iago-Rosco; Brabantio-Davis; Roderigo-Yates; Cassio-Stevens; Montano-Ryan; Desdemona-Mrs Stevens; Emilia-Mrs Egerton.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Stephens

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Nicholas(late Miss Warren) being the first time of her appearance on the stage since her performing...Polly in the Beggar's Opera eight years ago

Performance Comment: ..Polly in the Beggar's Opera eight years ago.

3554
29 October 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Salvi. Altered by Rolli.] Pit and Boxes together at half a guinea each. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. [Their Majesties present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsaces

3555
28 January 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Giovanni Battist Pescetti.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Conquista Del Vello D'oro

3556
25 February 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Text possibly by Zeno. Music, a Handel pasticcio.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alessandro Severo

3557
14 March 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Francis Veracini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Partenio

3558
14 April 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Harper. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Roberts, the first time of her appearing on that stage these six years.

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: I: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

3559
15 April 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Handel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Xerxes

3560
26 July 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 26 July: Hay-Market, July 25, 1738. Wheras the Operas for the ensuing Season at the King's-Theatre...cannot be carried on as was intended, by Reason of the Subscription not being full, and that I could not agree with the Singers, tho' I offer'd One Thousand Guineas to One of them, I therefore think myself oblig'd to declard, that I give up this Undertaking for next Year....J. J. Heidegger

Performances

3561
12 October 1738 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: See Daily Post, 12 Oct., for an attack on the French comedians as well as one on the luxury of opera

Performances

3562
29 December 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 29 Dec.: Mr Handel has hir'd the Opera-House in the Hay-Market for the Season, and intends to entertain the Town twice every Week with Oratorios

Performances

3563
19 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of The Parracide. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera. [A letter to the Daily Post, 19 Jan., by the author of The Parracide states that after his play was damned on 17 Jan. he was offered a benefit; at first he chose his own play, then decided to offer The Way of the World.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Song: Roberts

Dance: As17390115

3564
10 March 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A Pastoral Opera. [Composed by John Baptist Pescetti.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6d. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Angelica And Medoro

3565
13 March 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Delane. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera. [Tickets at Delane's Lodgings, the Golden Ball in Exeter-Court, the Strand.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

3566
26 December 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Songs, Dances, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations proper to the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

Performance Comment: Prospero-Berry; Ferdinand-Ridout; Trincalo-Macklin; Hippolito-Mrs Mills; Stephano-Shepard; Mustacho-Woodward; Ventoso-Ray; Antonio-Winstone; Alvarez-Turbutt; Gonsalez-Woodburn; Caliban-Johnson; Ariel-Miss Cole; Miranda-Mrs Walter; Dorinda-Mrs Clive; (with the song of) Dear Pretty Youth-Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Cast
Role: Mother Midnight Actor: Hough
Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Song: The Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Rainton, Mrs Clive, Miss Jones, Miss Karver, Miss Thynne

Dance: In II: Comic Dance of Winds-; In III: Comic Dance of Fantastical Spirits in Grotesque Characters-; In IV: Dance of Devils-; In V: Dance of Watermen-

3567
26 December 1739 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 26 Dec.: The New Theatre in the Hay-Market is enlarging, in order to perform Italian Opera there

Performances

3568
10 May 1740 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. Edition of 1740 Composed by Signor Pescetti. A new Scene by M delaCour. By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Busiri, Overo Il Trionfo D'amore

Dance: As17400408

3569
10 January 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A New Opera, [Text by Rolli. Music by Handel.] Boxes a half guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Second Gallery 2s. 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deidamia

3570
07 February 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Ed Il Moderato

Performance Comment: Music, As17410131 [For a letter concerning Handel's operas, see Deutsch, Handel, p. 511.]
Cast
Role: With several New Additions and Concertos on the Or Actor:

3571
19 February 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: With all the Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations proper to the Opera, particularly, An exact Representation of Merlin's Cavev, as in the Royal Gardens at Richmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, Merlin The British Enchanter

Performance Comment: King Arthur-Marshall; Oswald-Giffard; Merlin-Paget; Osmond-Crisp; Grimbald-Yates; Conon-Blakes; Aurelius-Crofts; Albanact-Dunstall; Guillamar-Naylor; Philidel-Mrs Dunstall; Emmeline-Mrs Giffard; Matilda-Miss Hippisley; In which will be performed the Original Musick by the late ingenious Mr Henry Purcel-Paget, Touchbury, Hemings, Hemskirk, Mrs Jones, Miss Medina; Venus-Mrs Dunstall; Cupid-Master Nanfan; with the dances-Shawford, Olbediston, Vaughan, Marr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Yates, Mrs Vallois, Miss Hippisley.
Cast
Role: with the dances Actor: Shawford, Olbediston, Vaughan, Marr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Yates, Mrs Vallois, Miss Hippisley.

3572
25 February 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Bedefit Mr and Mrs Arne. Written by the late Mr Addison, and set to Musick by Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

Performance Comment: End Act I will be introduced (by way of Interlude) the Solemn Invocation Scene in Oedipus-; with the Choruses-; After the Opera, the Songs and Choruses in As You Like It written by Shakespear, and by Mr Arne as intended originally to be performed-.
Cast
Role: the Solemn Invocation Scene in Oedipus Actor:
Role: with the Choruses Actor:

3573
16 April 1741 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New English Opera. [By Lewis Theobald.] Set to Musick by Mr Galliard. Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 3s. We are oblig'd to being exactly at Six, some of the Performers being afterwards wanted at the other Theatres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Happy Captive; With An Interlude In Two Comic Scenes, Between signor Capoccio, A Director From The canary Islands, And signora Dorinna, A Virtuosa

Related Works
Related Work: The Happy Captive Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Temple of Dulness; with the Humours of Sg Capochio and Sga Dorinna Author(s): Lewis Theobald

3574
22 August 1741 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: HHallam from the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, Over-against the Hospital Gate. Afterpiece: A new Ballad Opera. 1 p.m. to 11 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of Fair Rosamond, Representing Her Amours With King Henry, And Her Being Poisoned By Queen Eleanor In Woodstock Bower

Afterpiece Title: The Modern Pimp; or, The Doctor Deceiv'd

Dance: TThe Miller and his Wife, The Jealous Savoyard-two Masters Granier, Miss Granier

Ballet: TThe Triumph of Britannia Over the Four Parts of the World. Britannia-Mlle Duval; Europe-Granier; Asia-Pelling; Africa-Miles; America-Olbeldiston; Women-Mrs Vallois, Mrs Phillips, Mrs Love, Mlle Glasson

3575
19 January 1742 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera [A pasticcio. See Burney, History of Music, IV, 447.]With Dances, and other Decorations entirely new. Dedication by librettist Francesco Vanneschi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polidoro

Performance Comment: libretto lists: Polimnestor-Amorevoli; Ilione-Signora Visconti; Polidore-Monticelli; Electra-Signora Panichi; Deiphilus-Andreoni; Alethes-Signora Tedeschi.
Cast
Role: Alethes Actor: Signora Tedeschi.