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478 results for: Keyword - Paul Rolli
We found 237 matches on Author, 161 matches on Performance Comments, 70 matches on Event Comments, 28 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
01 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Incledon, Mrs Mills, Townsend, Hill, Emery, Claremont, Atkins, Abbot, Munden, Mrs Atkins, Miss Wheatley, Miss Sims, Mrs Sydney, Mrs H. Johnston. Cast from European Magazine, May 1800, p. 386: Paul-Incledon; Alambra-Mrs Mills; Tropic-Townsend; Don Antonio-Hill; Diego-Emery; Sebastian-Claremont; Dominique-Munden; Jacintha-Mrs Atkins; Mary-Miss Sims; Virginia-Mrs H. Johnston; unassigned-Atkins, Abbot, Miss Wheatley, Mrs Sydney.
Cast
Role: Paul Actor: Incledon

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Dance: In 2nd piece: Dances-Blurton, Wilde, Platt, Lewiss, Klanert, L. Bologna, J. Whitmore, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Mrs Bologna, Mrs Norton, Miss Bologna, Miss Dibdin, Miss Burnett

Song: In 2nd piece: Chorusses-Linton, Street, Denman, Oddwell, Thomas, Little, Curties, Lee, Ms Trevor, Ms Leserve, Ms Castelle, Ms Norton, Ms Masters, Ms Iliff, Ms Lloyd

2
06 April 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Abington. [Farce in two acts. Never before acted. Written by Paul Hiffernan, not printed (Winston MS 10).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The National Prejudice

Related Works
Related Work: The National Prejudice Author(s): Paul Hiffernan

Dance: Act I afterpiece: a French Dance call'd The Cotillion-Giorgi, Duquesney, Tassoni, Rolley, Mrs King, Sga Giorgi, Miss Tetley, Mrs Grimaldi; V: The Irish Hay@makers, as17670919

3
17 July 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 3, by Richard Paul Jodrell. Prologue by Edward Topham (see text)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Widow And No Widow

Related Works
Related Work: A Widow and No Widow Author(s): Paul Jodrell

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17790610

4
30 May 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Dominico Scarlatti, with additional numbers by Thomas Roseingrave. Text by P. A. Rolli.] A new Opera. Pit and Boxes together at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. Stage one Guinea. N.B. When the Tickets are disposed of, no Person will be admitted for Money; places will be kept in the Boxes only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Narcissus

Related Works
Related Work: Narcissus Author(s): P.A. Rolli

5
01 February 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Originally set by Signor Orlandini, with some songs composed by Signor Phillipo Amadei.] A new Opera. Admission as 19 Nov. 1720

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsaces; Or, Amore E Maesta

Related Works
Related Work: Arsaces Author(s): P.A. Rolli

6
15 April 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Ariosti, Bononcini, Handel. Text by P. A. Rolli.] Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. De Fabrice to Flemming, 21 April (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 126): The Princess of Wales was safely delivered of a son last Saturday. The news was taken to the King by Lord Herbert during...Mutius Scevola, where there was a particularly large audience on account of its being the first performance. The audience celebrated the event with loud applause and huzzas. Each act of this opera is by a different composer, -the first by a certain Pipo, the second by Bononcini, and the third by Hendell, who easily triumphed over the others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

Related Works
Related Work: Mutius Scaevola Author(s): P.A. Rolli

7
20 May 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli.] A new Opera. Admission as 19 Nov. 1720

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus; Or, Odio Ed Amore

Related Works
Related Work: Cyrus Author(s): P.A. Rolli

8
09 December 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Music by G. F. Handel.] A new Opera. Pit and Boxes at a half guinea. And in Regard to the Increase of the Number of Subscribers, no more than Three Hundred and Fifty Tickets will be delivered out. No Tickets will be disposed of at the Theatre, nor any Money taken there but for the Gallery. Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

Related Works
Related Work: Floridante Author(s): P.A. Rolli

9
10 January 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Music by Bononcini.] A new Opera. Admission as 9 Dec. 1721

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Crispus

Related Works
Related Work: Crispus Author(s): P.A. Rolli

10
22 February 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Rolli. Music by Bononcini.] A new Opera. Admission as 9 Dec. 1721

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

Related Works
Related Work: Griselda Author(s): P.A. Rolli

11
20 April 1742 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera [a pasticcio, Metastasio text altered by Rolli, form Pergolesi's Olimpiade, 1735 (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, I, 183)]. Music by Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Lampugnani. L. Leo, F. Leo [libretto in L. C.]. Two of the principal Performers being greatly indispos'd, the Dancers are oblig'd to be deferr'd. Thomas Gray to John Chute, 24 May: Our fifth Opera was the Olimpiade, in which they retain'd most of Pergolesi's Songs & yet 'tis gone already, as if it had been a poor thing of Galuppi's. Two nights did I enjoy it all alone, snugg in a Nook in the Gallery, but found no one in those regions had ever heard of Pergolesi, nay, I heard several affirm it was a Composition of Pescetti's.-Gray, Correspondence, I, 203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Meraspe O L'olimpiade

Related Works
Related Work: Meraspe o L'Olimpiade Author(s): P.A. Rolli

12
24 April 1744 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera [Altered by Rolli from Metastasio's Demetrio; music by Lampugnani (Nicoll, Early Eighteenth Century Drama, p. 388); not listed as a new piece in the Larpent MS.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste

Related Works
Related Work: Alceste Author(s): P.A. Rolli

13
09 January 1796 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramide

Dance: End Opera: Paul et Virginie-Mme Hilligsberg (will as usual performed in men's clothes [i.e. as Paul])

Performance Comment: e. as Paul]).

14
22 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. 3rd piece [1st time; F 1, by Richard Paul Jodrell. Text 1st published (with cast for later season) by W. Lowndes and J. Barker, 1786]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: Seeing is Believing: A Dramatic Proverb

Related Works
Related Work: Seeing is Believing: A Dramatic Proverb Author(s): Richard Paul Jodrell

Dance: As17830610

15
12 March 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A new Oratorio or Sacred Drama. Set to Musick by Signor Nicola Porpora. [By Paul Rolli. Egmont present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: David

16
11 May 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A New Opera.[Text by Paul Rolli; music by Nicholas Porpora.] The Characters are all new dress'd. N.B. The Tickets of such Subscribers who have not yet paid the last Call will not be admitted. 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aeneas

17
03 May 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera.[Text by Paul Rolli. Music by Nicholas Porpora.] 7 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Iphigenia In Aulis

18
26 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Text by Paul Rolli.] Daily Advertiser, 26 April: The Signora Marchesini's Songs are distributed after such a judicious Manner by the ingenious Author, so as to rise gradually upon the Audience in each Act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sabrina

19
29 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Barton for her first appearance did Lady Pliant pretty well--Foote, Sir Paul--the farce was hiss'd ($Cross). [N.B. The Folger Shakespeare Library has this bill, as a stage manager's MS for the printer.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Performance Comment: Maskwell-Mossop, 1st time; Sir Paul Plyant-Foote; Brisk-Woodward; Careless-Palmer; Lord Touchwood-Davies; Lord Froth-Blakes; Saygrace-Clough; Cynthia-Mrs Davies; Mellefont-Havard; Lady Touchwood-Mrs Pritchard; Lady Froth-Mrs Clive (with a song in character); Lady Pliant-A Young Gentlewoman, 1st appearance that stage.
Cast
Role: Sir Paul Plyant Actor: Foote

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Return'd from Paris

20
21 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In 1st piece the playbill assigns Father Paul to Mahon, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Booth.] Receipts: #174 15s. (171/11; 3/4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: Ferdinand-Mattocks; Isaac-Quick; Jerome-Wilson; Lopez-Wewitzer; Father Paul-Booth; Carlos-Brett; Antonio-Reinhold; The Duenna-Mrs Webb; Louisa-Mrs Martyr; Clara-Mrs Bannister. [Songs (J. Wilkie and T. Evans, 1783) adds: Lay-Brother-Besford.] hathi. hathi.
Cast
Role: Father Paul Actor: Booth

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

21
03 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Peed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Cast
Role: Paul Actor: Incledon

Dance: In afterpiece: As18000501

Song: In afterpiece: As18000501

22
05 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good-natured Man

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Cast
Role: Paul Actor: Incledon

Dance: As18000503

23
08 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good-natured Man

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Cast
Role: Paul Actor: Incledon

Dance: As18000503

Song: As18000503

24
09 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speed The Plough

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Cast
Role: Paul Actor: Incledon

Dance: As18000503

25
12 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Liberal Opinions

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Cast
Role: Paul Actor: Incledon

Afterpiece Title: The Horse and the Widow

Dance: As18000501

Song: As18000501