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Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, and her Royal Highness the Princess Caroline

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: I: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. II: Russian Sailor by Denoyer. III: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: Le Chasseur Royal by Denoyer, Mlle Roland, &c

Performance Comment: II: Russian Sailor by Denoyer. III: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: Le Chasseur Royal by Denoyer, Mlle Roland, &c .
Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Nicholas Porpora. Their Majesties, Princesses Amelia and Caroline expected to attend.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but edition of 1735 lists: Mitridate-Francesco Bernardi, detto Senesino; Sifare-Carlo Broschi, detto Farinelli; Semandra-Signora Francesca Cuzzoni; Farnace-Signora Fran. Bertolli; Ismene-Signora Santa Tasca, detta la Santina; Archelao-Antonio Montagnana; Arcante-Bernardo Palma .
Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #147 1s. [Their Majesties, Duke, and Princesses Caroline, Mary, and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Caroline, Mary, and Louisa [who were present]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Milward
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Music: In II: Solo on Violin by Charke

Dance: II: New Serious Dance by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. III: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

Performance Comment: III: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c .
Related Works
Related Work: Ignoramus; or, The Academical Lawyer Author(s): Ferdinando Parkhurst
Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Dryden. Set to Musick by Mr Handel. Pit and Boxes half a Guinea. Galleries 4s. and 2s. 6d. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 20 Feb.: Last Night his Royal Highness the Duke, and her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia were at. . . Mr Dryden's Ode, set to Musick by Mr Handel. Never was upon the like Occasion so numerous and splendid an Audience at any Theatre in London, there being at least 1300 Persons present; and it is judg'd that the Receipt of the House could not amount to less than 450l. It met with general Applause, tho attended with the Inconvenience of having the Performers placed at too great a distance from the Audience, which we hear will be rectified the next Time of Performance. [Egmont also present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Alexander

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, and none in edition of 1736, but Deutsch, Handel, p. 399, lists: Soprano-Signora Strada; Contralto-Mrs Arne-Young; Tenor-Beard; Bass-Erard, with violoncelli by Andrea Caporale and Pasqualino de Mareis and harpsichord by Walsh .
Event Comment: As 19 Feb. For the better Reception of the Ladies, the Pit will be floor'd over, and laid into the Boxes, and the Orchestre plac'd in a Manner more commodious to the Audience. [Their Majesties and the Princesses Amelia and Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Alexander

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke, and their Highnesses the Princesses Caroline, Mary, and Louisa [who were present]. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 28 Feb.: The Author perceiving from the Behaviour of some Persons, a determin'd Resolution, notwithstanding the Presence of part of the Royal Family, to breed a Disturbance, to the Prejudice of the Play, occasion'd, as 'tis supposed, from an invidious Letter inserted in Thursday's Grubstreet Journal, has chose to withdraw his Play, rather than give them an Opportunity of gratifying their Malice, by a Repetition of such Disturbances as must necessarily prevent the Audience from hearing the Performance in Peace. Receipts: #112 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deceit

Dance: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. Comic Ballet by Lalauze, Mlle d'Hervigni, &c. French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme

Performance Comment: Comic Ballet by Lalauze, Mlle d'Hervigni, &c. French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme .
Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Anne Roland. By Command of Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia. [Tickets at Mrs Anne Roland's, Golden Ball and Dove, Great Newport Street.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: In I: Venetian Gondolier by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. II: Les Rigadoons a la Provencale originale by Roland, Father of Mlle Roland and Mlle Anne Roland. In In: Biscaien (new) by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. IV: German Peasant by Roland. V: By Denoyer's Prentice

Performance Comment: II: Les Rigadoons a la Provencale originale by Roland, Father of Mlle Roland and Mlle Anne Roland. In In: Biscaien (new) by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. IV: German Peasant by Roland. V: By Denoyer's Prentice .
Related Works
Related Work: Ignoramus; or, The Academical Lawyer Author(s): Ferdinando Parkhurst
Event Comment: See a letter by Benjamin Victor to Matthew Debourg, in Victor, original Letters . . . (1776), I, I4ff which Deutsch, Handel, p. 409, thinks should be dated ca. 15 May 1736. Ricb's Register: Duke and Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Atalanta

Event Comment: Rich's Register: Duke and Princess Amelia present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Atalanta

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. [The young Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Guilt Its Own Punishment

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Captains

Event Comment: As 18 June. By Command of Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Event Comment: By Her Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet-Laureat. The Queen, Duke, and Princesses present. [See Daily Gazetteer, 4 Nov., for a discussion of the need of a paper devoted to the theatre, with some comments on theatrical conditions.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Dance: III: Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: [The Queen, Duke, and princesses present.] Lord Hervey to Henry Fox, 13 Nov.: I am just returned with the Queen from a long dull Opera, and a cold, empty House.--Ilchester, Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 255

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alcina

Event Comment: [The Queen, Duke, and Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Performance Comment: Deutsch, Handel, p. 419, lists: Poro-Annibali; Cleofide-Signora Strada; Erissena-Signora Maria Caterina Negri; Gandarte-Conti; Alessandro-Beard; Timagene-Reinhold.
Cast
Role: Gandarte Actor: Conti
Role: Alessandro Actor: Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Performance Comment: Advertised but apparently deferred upon news of the death of the child of the Princess of Orange.
Event Comment: As 23 Nov. [Upon hearing of the death of the child of the Princess of Orange, the Queen sent word that she could not attend this performance.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: [K$King, Queen, and Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sabrina

Afterpiece Title: Grullo and Moschetta

Event Comment: At 7 p.m. [The Duke and the Princesses present.] Daily Post, 2 June: The same day [1 June] the Bill relating to common Players of Interludes pass'd the Hon. House of Commons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido

Related Works
Related Work: Dido, Queen of Carthage Author(s): Prince Hoare
Event Comment: Benefit Glover. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Mary and Louisa. [Tickets at Glover's, in Chandos Street, cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: I: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; II: Dance of Sailors-Glover; III: Minuet, with a Ball Dance called The Marriee-Glover, Mlle Roland; IV: Grand Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland; V: Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness The Duke and Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Caroline, Mary, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Sir Sampson-Shepard, the first time of his appearing on the stage these two years; Valentine-Milward; Ben-Macklin; Foresight-Johnson; Scandal-Mills; Tattle-Cross; Trapland-Griffin; Jeremy-Woodward; Angelica-Mrs Mills; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Pritchard; Mrs Frail-Mrs Butler; Prue-Mrs Clive; Nurse-Mrs Marshall.
Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Griffin

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke, and Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa. Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus and Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, and Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Dance: III: Dance of Moors-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: By command of His Royal Highness the Duke, and Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: II: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Ballet: IV: Double Jealousy. As17381108

Cast
Role: Miller's Wife Actor: Mlle Roland
Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [The King, Duke, Princess Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa present.] London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 12 Jan.: Being the first time of his Majesty's being at any Publick Diversion since the Death of the late Queen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Cast
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Roberts
Role: Cambridge Actor: Anderson