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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.

3851
02 March 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new comic Opera. Music by Alessandri. Benefit for Lovattini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Re Alla Caccia

3852
08 April 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A comic Opera; Music by Gaetano Pugnani; Poetry by Carto Francesco Badini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nanetta E Lubino

3853
10 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Mrs Ward is extremely sorry she is oblig'd to change the Night's Entertainment advertised for her Benefit, but the severe illness of Mrs Mattocks and Mrs Baker, makes it impossible to perform the Opera of Love in a Village, as does Mr Woodward's indisposition the Farce of the Citizen. The Managers have therefore kindly granted her the above tragedy and pantomime. Charges #65 15s. Balance to Mrs Ward #55 5s. plus #53 2s. from tickets (Box 58; Pit 158; Gallery 149). Receipts: #121 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

3854
22 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mahon. Tickets deliver'd for Lionel and Clarissa, an Opera and Master Harris will be taken. Charges: 1!2 House charge plus 1!2 Receipts: #62 18s. 3d. Deficit to Mahon #1 6s. 9d. covered by #37 15s. from tickets (Box 77; Pit 66; Gallery 86). Mas. Harris Disposed of #40 19s. worth of tickets (Box 97; Pit 68; Gallery 65) from which he receiv'd 1!2 value. Receipts: #61 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: Lovewell-Cautherly (from Drury Lane); Ogleby-Austin (from Theatre Royal Dublin); Sir John Melvile-Mahon; Sterling-Yates; Flower-Dunstall; Canton-Quick; Brush-Dyer; Miss Sterling-Mrs Bulkley; Fanny-Mrs Baddeley (from Drury Lane); Betty-Mrs Lessingham; Chambermaid-Miss Ward; Mrs Heidleberg-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Lovewell Actor: Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Cast
Role: Termagant Actor: Mrs Green. u§¨cg IInterlude: The Royal Garland. As17681010.
Role: Nymph Actor: _. u§™cg A+A New Occasional Interlude: The Royal Garland.
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Copin

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Mas. Harris; End: The Lamplighters, as17681101

Performance Comment: Harris; End: The Lamplighters, as17681101.

3855
12 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Holtom, Quick, Fox, Hamilton, Miss Besford. Tickets deliver'd for an Opera, and Lionel and Clarissa will be taken. Charges #64 5s. Deficit #31 7s. (apportioned equally at #6 5s. 5d. for each beneficiary). Covered by income from tickets (Account Book). @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value @Holtom 16 117 68 #28 7s. @Quick 9 77 69 #20 14s. @Fox 39 162 61 #40 3s. @Hamilton 49 52 88 #28 17s. @Miss Besford 30 56 56 #21 10s. @Money #32 18s. @Total #172 9s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nymph Actor: _. u§™cg A+A New Occasional Interlude: The Royal Garland.
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Copin
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: A Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Hamilton (both apprentices to Fishar); End: A Minuet-Fishar, Miss Besford

3856
16 May 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Last time of performing this opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Schiava

3857
23 May 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Last time of performing this opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliola

3858
03 June 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new comic Opera; Music by Traetta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Serve Rivali

3859
06 June 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction (on account of Mrs Cornelys Ball) the Opera will begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Serve Rivali

3860
13 June 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing this opera this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Schiava

3861
10 August 1769 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: A Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Music benefit for Mrs Pinto. Songs by Mrs Forbes, Master Brown, and Mrs Pinto. Concertos on the organ and Hautboy by Hook and Park. After which will be performed for the first time a Pastoral Serenata called Love and Innocence, in two acts composed by Mr Hook, with chorusses. An elegant transparent Temple of Apollo designed and painted by Sig Bigar, machinist to the Opera House. The Gardens will be additionally illuminated. Fireworks. The whole to conclude with a Ball

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Innocence

3862
05 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [See note for 9 Jan. 1770 of a mild riot this night during best scene of The Orphan.] Afterpiece: A New Opera [by George Alexander Stevens] the Music composed by Mr Fisher. Books of the entertainment to be had at the theatre. Gave Duke of Glocester's Footmen #2 2s. (Account Book). [Afterpiece a roaring burlesque of Lee's Rival Queens. Larpent MS 302 includes Semi Chorus, Grand Chorus, and Perdiccas, not listed in the Playbill. The Court awakes with total hangover. Alexander orders a pot of coffee to clear his head. Thais begs him to leave the gout giving juice-Retire with me @ In my Chinese pavilion, drink some Tea." Afterpiece reviewed inthe Freeholder's Magazine for Jan.] Mr Shuter and Mrs Mattocks gave great satisfaction in their different characters; the words of the songs were written by Mr George Alexander Stephens, author of the celebrated Lecture upon Heads, and several other whimsical productions; and the airs which had Uncommon merit, were composed by Mr Fisher, a young genius, who has hitherto been but little known in the musical world. Receipts: #215 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Court of Alexander

3863
24 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: With a Dance Actor: incidental to the Opera.

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Performance Comment: As17691007, but Buck-Cushing. [The Prelude, pageant, and Representation of the Amphitheatre seem to have been omitted to reduce this to an afterpiece.]The Prelude, pageant, and Representation of the Amphitheatre seem to have been omitted to reduce this to an afterpiece.]

Dance: II: The Dutch Milkmaid-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford , as17691111; End Opera: The Lamplighters, as17691005

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford , as17691111; End Opera: The Lamplighters, as17691005.

3864
06 February 1770 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new comic Opera, Music entirely New-Giordani

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Padre E Il Figlio Rivali

Performance Comment: New dances, composed by Galliotti in which Sga Guidi (first appearance) and (by Particular Desire), Slingsby will dance the Allemande.

3865
24 March 1770 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing this opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

3866
27 March 1770 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Being the last of performing this opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

3867
31 March 1770 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new comic Opera; Music by Guglielmi. New Dances and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Costanza Di Rosinella

3868
18 April 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Fathers

Performance Comment: As17700208, but Diana-Mrs Wrighten; Clarissa-Miss Weller (for Mrs Baddeley) first time in this opera (playbill).

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17700405 but The Vocal Parts-_Vernon.
Cast
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: _Vernon.
Role: to be spoken for the last time Actor: King.
Role: Parts Actor: King, Moody, Parsons, Ackman, Hurst, Waldron, Castle, Wheeler, W. Palmer, Wright, Keen, Hartry, Mesink, Clough, Booth, J. Burton, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Lowe. The Vocal Parts-Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Champnes, Fawcett, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Champnes, Fawcett, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley
Role: The Dances Actor: Dagueville, Mrs King, Sga Vidini, Miss Rogers
Role: In which will be introduced The Pageant as Actor: Upon-Avon
Role: Hamlet Actor: Cautherly
Related Works
Related Work: London's Great Jubilee Author(s): Matthew Taubman

3869
01 May 1770 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Comic Opera. Music by Fischetti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Signor Dottore

3870
28 May 1770 @ Ranelagh Gardens

Event Comment: A new Serenata, the Music by Dibdin. Admittance 2s. 6d. each person, coffee and tea included. The house will continue to be opened on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays until further notice. N.B. There will be an armed guard on horseback to patrol the roads. [The serenata was added to "the usual entertainment." Words by Bickerstaff, this was an Englished La Serva Padrona (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, Vol. 1, Col. 175. Rev. Ed., 1955).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid The Mistress

3871
19 June 1770 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The last time of performing a Comic Opera This Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

3872
26 June 1770 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: La By particular Desire of several of the Nobility and Gentry. Being the last time of performing a Comic Opera this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Schiava

3873
17 November 1770 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: With Alterations. [No operas since 6 Nov. because of the illness of Ristorini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Vicende Della Sorte

3874
24 November 1770 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Serious Opera. Music by several eminent Composers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cosroe

3875
15 December 1770 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Revived a favourite Serious Opera. The Music by several eminent composers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Astarto