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Event Comment: For a payment of #250 by the Prince of Wales to Opera, see Deutsch, Handel, p. 319

Performances

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosd

Event Comment: Benefit John Dennis. Daily Advertiser, 19 Dec: There was an exceeding crowded Audience of Persons of Distinction ... at Mr Dennis's Benefit, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was pleased to send twenty Guineas as a present to that Gentleman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: As17331013 With a new Prologue [by Alexander Pope] .

Afterpiece Title: The Festival

Related Works
Related Work: The Egyptian Festival Author(s): Andrew Franklin
Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne

Event Comment: (Prince of Wales present.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne in Naxus

Event Comment: Egmont, II, 68: After dinner I went... to hear Hendel's Serenata composed in honour of the marriage, call'd Apollo and Daphnis. The Royal Family was all there, the Prince of Wales excepted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales and Prince of Orange present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cg The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Event Comment: Benefit Galliard. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Nuptial Masque

Cast
Role: Britannia Actor: Mrs Sanderson

Dance: I: Les Characteres de l'Amour by Mlle Salle. II: French Peasant by Maker. III: Pigmalion, as17340114

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman. By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales and Prince of Orange present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Nuptial Masque

Cast
Role: Britannia Actor: Mrs Sanderson

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17331004. Pigmalion, as17340114

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

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but Deutsch, Handel, p. 365, suggests a possible cast: Mirtillo-Carestini; Amarilli-Signora Strada; Eurilla-Signora Durastanti; Silvio-Scalzi; Dorinda-Signora Maria Caterina Negi; Tirenio-Waltz .
Related Works
Related Work: The Faithful Shepherd Author(s): George Frideric Handel
Event Comment: The Prince of Wales paid #250 to Handel's Opera Company. See BM, Add MSS 24, 403

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Dance: II: Two Pierrots by Davenport and Olbeldiston. III: Harlequin by Miss Brett. V: A new Country Dance by Davenport, proper to the Play

Song: I: A Generi Affetti by Miss Jones and Master Arne. IV: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond by Miss Jones

Event Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 30 Nov.: Last Night there was a Rehearsal of a new Opera before his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at his House in Pall-Mall, in which Farinelli and Senesino each of them perform'd a Part

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: Benefit Carlo Broschi Farinello. With several Alterations and Additions. Pit and Boxes, Places on the Stage, at Half a Guinea. N.B. Signor Farinello humbly hopes, that the Subscribers will not make use of their Tickets on this Occasion. The Stage will be in the same Manner as in the Assembly with a great Number of Benches. Mrs Pendarves to Mrs Granville, 15 March: Tonight is Farinelli's benefit; all the polite world will flock there, and go at four o'clock, for fear they should not be time enough. I don't love mobbing, and so I shall leave them to themselves. Daily Advertiser, 13 March: 'Tis expected that Signor Farinelli will have the greatest Appearance on Saturday that has been known. We hear that a Contrivance will be made to accommodate 2000 People. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleas'd to give him 200 Guineas, the Spanish Ambassador 100, the Emperor's Ambassador 50, his Grace the Duke of Leeds 50, the Countess of Portmore 50, Lord Burlington 50, his Grace the Duke of Richmond 50, the Hon. Col. Paget 30, Lady Rich 20, and most of the other Nobility 50, 30 or 20 Guineas each; so that 'tis believ'd his Benefit will be worth to him upwards of 2000l

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A Farce, never performed before. Taken from Moliere. [Author unknown. Apparently not printed. See London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 19, 20, and 21 March, for expressions of good will to Ryan, including a gift often guineas from the Prince of Wales.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: A School for Women

Dance: La Coquette Francoise by Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle. Scot's Dance, as17350315

Song: By Leveridge and Mrs Wright

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Salle. By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Tickets to be had at Madam Salle's Lodgings at Mr Belleur, Jeweller, opposite the Red-Lion, Brownlow-street, DL

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: I: Pigmalion by Lally, Mlle Salle &c. II: Fawns by Lally, Mlle Grognet, Miss Rogers, Mrs De l'Orme. III: By Denoyer and Mlle Salle. IV: By Mlle Grognet, Miss Rogers, Mrs De l'Orme. V: Minuet by Denoyer and Mlle Salle

Performance Comment: II: Fawns by Lally, Mlle Grognet, Miss Rogers, Mrs De l'Orme. III: By Denoyer and Mlle Salle. IV: By Mlle Grognet, Miss Rogers, Mrs De l'Orme. V: Minuet by Denoyer and Mlle Salle .
Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureat. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: By Mlle Anne Roland. II: Grand Serious Ballet by Denoyer and others. III: Grand Ballet by Mlle Roland, Mlle Anne Roland, and others. IV: Comic Dance by Le Brun and Mrs Anderson. V: Le Badinage de Provence, as17351117

Performance Comment: II: Grand Serious Ballet by Denoyer and others. III: Grand Ballet by Mlle Roland, Mlle Anne Roland, and others. IV: Comic Dance by Le Brun and Mrs Anderson. V: Le Badinage de Provence, as17351117.
Event Comment: By particular Desire. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts

Dance: I: By Mlle Anne Roland. III: Grand New Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: Le Badinage de Provence, as17351117

Performance Comment: III: Grand New Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: Le Badinage de Provence, as17351117.
Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Performance Comment: Cast not known (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see17351120.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: #96 8s. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: By Mlle D'Hervigni, from Paris, the first time of her appearing on the English stage. Serious Ballet by Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. Dance of Sailors, as17351128 A Comic Ballet called Les Puisans by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Farquhar. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. III: The Rover, as17360103

Event Comment: Receipts: #46 11s. 6d. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Dance: Ballet, as17360110 Harlequin by Mlle De L'Isle. French Peasants, as17360109

Event Comment: Receipts: #181 10s. [Prince of Wales expected to attend.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.] As 12 Jan

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 30 March: We hear that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales honour'd Pasquin last Night with his Presence, when it was acted the twentieth Time to a crowded Audience . . . and many thousands of People turn'd away for want of room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin