Event Comment: A New Opera. Compos'd by Signior Hasse. [Text by Metastasio.] Pit and Boxes at half a guineas. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. [Prince and Princess of Wales present.

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

Event Comment: A New Opera, etc. [Really Gluck's Artaserse, Metastasio's text, a pastiche.] Music by Brivio (from libretto)

Event Comment: We hear from the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, that as the Celebrated Opera Dido, wrote by Abbat Metastasio, and set to Musick by Sig Hasse, cannot be got ready for Representation till almost a fortnight, the Opera Lucius Verus (consisting of chosen Airs from the Compositions of Mr Handel) will be performed next Saturday (Daily Advertiser)

Event Comment: A New Opera...Written by Metastasio and set to Musick by Signor Hasse

Event Comment: A new Opera written by Metastasio and the Musick compos'd originally by Signor Hasse. [First time performed in England.

Event Comment: A New Opera. Musick-Jomelli. Text by Metastasio. First performance in England

Event Comment: Benefit for Quilici. An Opera, by Metastasio, with Music by Jomelli. Books of this elegant poetical Composition, with an English translation, will be sold at the Performance

Event Comment: At the Great Room, Dean St., Soho. By Desire. An Italian Oratorio in Two Acts. Words by Metastasio. Music by Jomelli. First Time of performing this Grand Musical Entertainment in England, and is judged by all conoisseurs to be the most exquisite piece of composition ever heard before. Pit Half a Guinea, Gallerias 5s. To begin at half past six precisely. A very strong rumour prevails, that leave will be applied for to the higher Power, for a third Theatre in this City; and it is even hinted, that two well-known performers have already ventured on a purchase, and are selecting together a company with that design (Public Ledger)

Event Comment: From the Italian of Metastasio, set to Music by Nicollo Piccini. To begin at 6 p.m

Event Comment: Oratorio from the Italian of Metastasio. Never Performed. The Music by Sg Jomelli With additional Chorusses by Leo, Graun, and others. Servants permitted to keep places in the Front as well as Side Boxes. Books of the Performance to be sold there. Charges: #35

Event Comment: Last Oratorio, but one this season. From the Italian of Metastasio. The Music by Sg Nicolo Piccini, the composer of La Buona Figluola with additional Chorusses. Charges: #35

Event Comment: Oratorio-taken from the Italian of Metastasio. Music by Piccini

Event Comment: Benefit for Wendling. A serenata written by Metastasio, set by Bach, with Grand Chorusses. Pit and Boxes half a Guinea. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. To begin at 7:00 p.m

Event Comment: A Serious Opera (SER 3); originally written by Metastasio; the Music selected from the most eminent Composers, under the Direction of Cherubini. [Babbini was from the Opera, Rome.]

Event Comment: A Serious Opera, altered [by Carlo Francesco Badini] from Metastasio; the Music by Anfossi [a pasticcio, with additions by Sacchini, Piccinni, Gazzaniga, Schuster, Mortellari]. [This was Mme Mara's 1st appearance on the English operatic stage. She had 1st sung in London, in concerts at the Pantheon, in 1784.] "It is with the utmost astonishment we remarked that she unites the talents of an excellent actress with the merit of the most enchanting singer that ever perhaps came forth on any stage" (Morning Herald, 15 Feb.). "Mme Mara delivered the recitatives with a force of expression that produced the strongest interest of character, and the woes of Dido as powerfully engaged the sympathy, as the rich and varied melody of the airs, the admiration of the audience" (Morning Chronicle, 16 Feb.). "The [second] opera was Didone, a pasticcio, for which Mara had made a very judicious selection of songs, introducing four of very different characters, by Sacchini, Piccinni, and other composers, all of which were so much and so equally admired, that two were encored every night, each of them receiving that mark of approbation in its turn. Mara's talents as a singer (for she was no actress and had a bad person for the stage) were of the very first order. Her voice, clear, sweet, distinct, was sufficiently powerful, though rather thin, and its agility and flexibility rendered her a most excellent bravura singer, in which style she was unrivalled" (Mount-Edgcumbe, 59)

Event Comment: A new Serious Opera [1st time; SER 2, by Carlo Francesco Badini, based on Alessandro nell'Indie, by Metastasio]; the Music new by Tarchi. "The House was so pleased with it that they did as is done in foreign Theatres--they gave the Composer specific applause, 'Bravo Tarchi', 'Bravo Maestro'" (World, 3 June)

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: Came to my house some German strangers, & Signor Pietro Reggio a famous Musitian, who had ben long in Sweden in Queene Christina s Court: he sung admirably to a Guittar & has a perfect good tenor & base: & had set to Italian composure, many of Abraham Cowleys Pieces which shew'd extremely well

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I din'd at my Lord Falklands, Tressurer of the Navy, where after dinner we had rare Musique, there being amongst others Signor Pietro Reggio and Signor Jo. Battist bothe famous, the one for his Voice, & the other his playing on the Harpichord, few if any in Europe exceeding him

Event Comment: Benefit Pietro Castrucci Romano

Event Comment: Benefit Pietro Guaccini, Servant to his Highness the Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg. At 6 p.m. Tickets half a guinea

Event Comment: Benefit Pietro. Boxes and Pit half a guinea. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Event Comment: LLittle Pietro & Miss Noverre, from France now perform, with a figure of Children & meet with great Applause-were encor'd the first Night-(Cross). Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #180 (Cross)