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Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, and three eldest Princesses present. Egmont also present. For a satiric pamphlet on opera, see Harmony in an Uproar, dated 12 Feb.; much of it is reprinted in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 344-57.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

Event Comment: [Their Majesties and the Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Majesties' Command. Pit and Front Boxes put together at 51. [Duke, Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens

Cast
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Queen Mary Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Norfolk Actor: Marshall
Role: Davison Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Morton Actor: Hewitt
Role: Cecil Actor: Roberts
Role: Giffard Actor: Turbutt
Role: Douglass Actor: Miss Hollyday

Dance: La Badine by Lally, Mlle Grognet, S. Lally, Le Brun, Davenport, Olbeldiston, Mrs Walter, Mrs D'Lorme, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Davenport (with new Habits)

Event Comment: Their Majesties, three eldest Princesses, and Prince of Orange present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 18 March: And on Friday [Giffard] invited the whole Company to a very grand Entertainment, prepar'd for 'em in the Play-house, where their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Prince and Princess of Orange, the Royal Family, Success to Trade, Prosperity to the City of London, and many other Loyal Healths were drank; during which time the Arches were again illuminated, Fireworks play'd off, and the Night concluded with a Ball

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

Event Comment: [Prince and Princess of Orange present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

Event Comment: Prince and Princess of Orange expected to attend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Salle. By Their Majesties' Command. [Prince of Wales, Prince of Orange, and two young Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Dance: Les Charactres de P Amour by Mlle Salle. Un Pas de Trots by Malter, Houghton, Mlle Salle. Peasant by Malter. Pigmalion, as17340114

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. By Command of His Royal Highness. To which (By Command) will be added, The Coronation of Anna Bullen, with the Military Ceremony of the Champion in Westminster-Hall, for the Entertainment of . . .the Prince of Orange, who accompanies his Royal Highness to the Play. [Prince of Wales, Prince of Orange, Princess Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills
Role: Prince Actor: W. Mills
Role: Shallow Actor: Johnson
Role: Silence Actor: Miller
Role: Feeble Actor: Griffin
Role: Falstaff Actor: Harper
Role: Pistol Actor: Cibber
Role: Lancaster Actor: A. Hallam
Role: Gloster Actor: Cross
Role: York Actor: Mil ward
Role: Justice Actor: Boman
Role: Poins Actor: Oates
Role: Bardolph Actor: Shepard
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Shireburn
Role: Doll Actor: Miss Mann. A new Prologue upon the Company's Return to the Theatre Royal, spoken by Mills

Song:

Dance:

Event Comment: [Their Majesties and the young Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido

Event Comment: This will be the last Performance. [Their Majesties, Prince, Duke, and all the Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aeneas

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by Ben. Johnson. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. [Their Majesties, Duke, and Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Cast
Role: Subtle Actor: W. Mills
Role: Face Actor: Mills
Role: Abel Actor: Cibber
Role: Sir Epicure Actor: Harper
Role: Ananias Actor: Johnson
Role: Tribulation Actor: Griffin
Role: Kastril Actor: Miller
Role: Dapper Actor: Master Arne
Role: Surly Actor: Oates
Role: Lovewit Actor: Shepard
Role: Doll Common Actor: Mrs Charke
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Mrs Shireburn
Role: Neighbors Actor: Winston, Wright, Jones, Leigh

Afterpiece Title: A Burgo-Master Trick'd

Cast
Role: Burgo Actor: Master-Nivelon
Role: Master Actor: Nivelon
Role: Harlequin Actor: Le Brun
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Burgomaster's Servant Actor: Cibber
Role: Scaramouch Actor: Janno
Role: Peasants Actor: Pelling, Janno, Davenport
Role: Peasant Women Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport, Miss Oates

Dance: I: The Black Joke. II: Revellers. III: Pierots. IV: Les Bergeries. By Poitier, Nivelon, Essex, Pelling, Chose, Davenport, Janno, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

Event Comment: By Command of her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange. For the Entertainment of Tomo Chachi. .. and Senauki his Queen. For the Benefit of a Family that has sustain'd great Losses. Mainpiece: Written by the Author of The Miser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote In England

Cast
Role: Don Quixote Actor: Roberts
Role: Sancho Panza Actor: Mullart
Role: Badger Actor: Morgan
Role: Fairlove Actor: Aston
Role: Mayor Actor: Lacy
Role: John Actor: Bencraft
Role: Dorothea Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Jezebel Actor: Mrs Steel
Role: Mrs Guzzle Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Mrs Sneak Actor: Miss Jones Sr
Role: Miss Sneak Actor: Miss Jones Jr

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance:

Song: Songs proper to the Play. The Pleasant Month of May by a Gentlewoman, who never appeared on any stage before

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.] Lord Hervey to Henry Fox, 2 Nov.: No place is full but the Opera; and Farinelli is so universally liked, that the crowds there are immense. By way of public spectacles this winter, there are no less than two Italian Operas, one French play house, and three English ones. Heidegger has computed the expense of these shows, and proves in black & white that the undertakers must receive seventy-six thousand odd hundred pounds to bear their charges, before they begin to become gainers. Ilchester, Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 211

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 6 Nov.: The King, the Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia, were again to . . . Artaxerxes, in which Signor Farnelli continues to sing to a crowded Audience, with all imaginable Applause. Egmont, Diary, II, 132: Went to the opera, where I heard the finest voice that Europe affords, Faranelli, lately come over. Norwich Gazette, 9 Nov.: We hear that both Operas (occasion'd by their dividing) are at a vast expence to entertain the Nobility and Gentry for the ensuing Season; the Opera House in the Haymarket are reckon'd to stand near 12000l. and Mr Handell at near 9000l. for the Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Event Comment: First Piece: A new Dramatick Entertainment in Musick. [Music by Handel.] Second Piece: An Opera. With several Additions, intermix'd with Choruses. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 4s. Upper Gallery 21. 6d. [King and Princesses Amelia and Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Terpsicore

Cast
Role: : Apollo Actor: Carestino
Role: Erato Actor: Signora Strada
Role: Terpsichore Actor: Mlle Salle

Afterpiece Title: Pastor Fido

Cast
Role: : Mirtillo Actor: Carestino
Role: Amarillis Actor: Signora Strada
Role: Silvius Actor: Beard
Role: Dorinda Actor: Signora Catterina Negri
Role: Eurilla Actor: Signora Rosa Negri
Role: Tirenius Actor: Waltz
Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia and Caroline

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Astrologue, Statue, Enfant, Ramoneur, Perroquet: With The Scene Of The Moor

Afterpiece Title: Les Amours de Nanterre

Music: Mr Job Baker will perform a Preamble on the Kettle Drums, accompanied by other Instruments

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Intermix'd with Songs and Dances. [The Duke and Princesses Amelia, Mary, and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Misantrope

Afterpiece Title: Le Carillon de Maitre Gervaise et Dame Alison

Cast
Role: Dame Alison Actor: Francisque, unmask'd
Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and Caroline

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Extravagance

Cast
Role: Bellmour Actor: Walker
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Bullock

Afterpiece Title: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife

Cast
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Leon Actor: Ryan
Role: Copper Captain Actor: A. Hallam
Role: Duke Actor: Hale
Role: Cacafogo Actor: Mullart
Role: Margarita Actor: Mrs Buchanan
Role: Old Woman Actor: Hippisley
Role: Juan Actor: Ridout
Role: Sancho Actor: Aston
Role: Alonzo Actor: Wignell
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Stevens

Dance: Glover's Scot's Dance. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers

Song: By Leveridge

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince, Princesses Amelia and Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Event Comment: [Duke and the young Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Et Sa Troupe Comediens Esclaves; Or, Harlequin And His Company Of Comedians Slaves

Dance:

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Sixteen Years. Written by the late Dr Procope. Calculated for the Meridian of London. [Princesses Mary and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Balourd; Or, Harlequin Blunderer

Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Francisque
Role: Leandre Actor: Le Sage Sr
Role: Doctor Actor: Dessessars
Role: Geronte Actor: Verneuil
Role: Pierot Actor: Malter
Role: Scaramouch Actor: Cochoy
Role: News Cryer Actor: Dubuisson
Role: Rare Actor: Show Man-De Lisle
Role: Show Man Actor: De Lisle
Role: Marinette or Countess Leonora Actor: Mrs Malter
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Mimie
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Francisque

Afterpiece Title: Le Portrait

Dance: A new Chacone in several Characters: Harlequin Man-Cochoy Jr; Harlequin Woman-Miss Chateauneuf; Pierot Man-Roland; Pieraite-Mrs Mimie; Punch-Villeneuve; Dame Jigogne-Malter; Scaramouch Man-De Lisle; Scaramouch Woman-Mrs Le Sage Jr. The Frolick, as17341226 (latter in Daily Advertiser only)

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by A. Salvi. Music by Handel. King, Queen, Princesses Amelia and Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariodante

Cast
Role: : Il Re di Scozia Actor: Waltz
Role: Ginevra Actor: Signora Strada
Role: Ariodante Actor: Carestini
Role: Lurcanio Actor: Beard
Role: Dalinda Actor: Miss Young
Role: Polinesso Actor: Signora Maria Caterina Negri
Role: Odoardo Actor: Stoppelaer
Event Comment: By Command of her Royal Highness the Princess Caroline. Written by Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Or, The Citizen Turn'd Gentleman

Cast
Role: Jourdain Actor: Dessessars
Role: Cleontes Actor: Le Sage Jr
Role: Covielle Actor: Verneuil
Role: Dorante Actor: Le Sage Sr
Role: Singing Master Actor: Dubuisson
Role: Madame Jourdain Actor: Mrs Dessessars
Role: Lucille Actor: Mrs Fompre
Role: Nicole Actor: Mrs Le Sage Jr
Role: Dorimene Actor: Mrs Mimi

Dance:

Entertainment: With the Ceremony of Reception, after the Turkish Manner

Event Comment: [Text by Paul Rollo. Music by Nicholas Porpora.] A New Opera. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 3 Feb.: On Saturday Their Majesties ...the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses Amelia and Carolina . . . saw the Opera of Polifemo, which was perform'd to one of the greatest Audiences that hath King's been known this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polifemo

Cast
Role: : Polifemo Actor: Montagnana
Role: Aci Actor: Farinello
Role: Galatea Actor: Signora Cuzzoni
Role: Ulisse Actor: Senesino
Role: Calipso Actor: Signora Bertolli
Role: Nerea Actor: Signora Segatti