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Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Related Works
Related Work: Three Hours after Marriage Author(s): Alexander Pope
Related Work: The Count of Burgundy Author(s): Alexander PopeAugust Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue
Related Work: Lupone; or, The Inquisitor Author(s): Alexander Gordon
Related Work: Telemachus Author(s): Alexander Scarlatti
Related Work: Sethona Author(s): Alexander Dow
Related Work: Zingis Author(s): Alexander Dow
Event Comment: [D$Duke and two youngest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, Duke, and Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Related Works
Related Work: Three Hours after Marriage Author(s): Alexander Pope
Related Work: The Count of Burgundy Author(s): Alexander PopeAugust Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue
Related Work: Lupone; or, The Inquisitor Author(s): Alexander Gordon
Related Work: Telemachus Author(s): Alexander Scarlatti
Related Work: Sethona Author(s): Alexander Dow
Related Work: Zingis Author(s): Alexander Dow
Event Comment: As 26 Dec. 1732. Receipts, #79 16s. 6d. [Prince and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Beggar Actor: Chapman.
Role: Player Actor: Paget
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Norsa, who never appeared on any stage before
Role: Macheath Actor: Walker
Role: Peachem Actor: Hippisley
Role: Lockit Actor: Hall
Role: Mat Actor: Salway
Role: Filch Actor: Clarke
Role: Mrs Peachem Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Forrester
Role: Sukey Actor: Mrs Templer
Role: Mrs Slammekin Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Egleton.
Role: Loveworth Actor: Hale
Role: Squib Actor: Chapman
Role: Woodcock Actor: Dyer
Role: Mrs Goodfellow Actor: Mrs Cook
Role: Penelope Actor: Miss Binks.
Role: Antonio Actor: Neale.

Dance: As17321228

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy

Event Comment: A New Opera. Wherein the Cloaths and Scenes are all intirely New. [Music by Handel. Text possibly by Grazio Braccioli, but see Deutsch, Handel, p. 303.] Done into English by Mr Humphreys. [Their Majesties, Duke, and Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

Performance Comment: Edition of 1732 lists: Orlando-Senesino; Angelica-Signora Strada; Medoro-Signora Bertolli; Dorinda-Signora Celeste; Zoroastro-Montagnana.
Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Senesino
Role: Angelica Actor: Signora Strada
Role: Medoro Actor: Signora Bertolli
Role: Dorinda Actor: Signora Celeste
Role: Zoroastro Actor: Montagnana.
Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. Benefit the late Mr Wilks's Widow. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Part of the Seats on the Stage (for the better Accommodation of the Ladies) will be form'd into Side-Boxes. Part of the Pit (by Desire) will be rail'd in at the Price of the Boxes. [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present. The Epilogue is in Weekly Miscellany, 10 March 1733.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Cast
Role: Sir Roger Actor: Cibber
Role: Savil Actor: Johnson
Role: Scornful Lady Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Elder Loveless Actor: Wm. Mills
Role: Young Loveless Actor: A. Hallam
Role: Welfort Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Martha Actor: Miss Hollyday
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Willis
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: With a new Prologue Actor:
Role: Epilogue Actor: .

Dance: Denoyer, Mrs Booth, Miss Robinson, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and Three eldest Princesses present.] Daily Advertiser, 5 March: Signora Strada, on Account of whose Indisposition the Run of the new Opera of Orlando was interrupted, continues very ill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

Performance Comment: Edition of 1733 does not list performers' names. See Deutsch, Handel, p. 307.
Event Comment: By Command of Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal. Benefit Mills. Daily Post, 5 March: Colley Cibber...is so ill of a Cold he is not able to Act. Daily Advertiser, 7 March: On Monday Night last a great Disorder happen'd amongst the Footmen at [dl], occasion'd by one of the Orange Women, who meeting with some Affront, as she was passing from the Theatre to the Coffeehouse, drew out her Penknife, and stabb'd a Chairman and two Gentlemen's Servants therewith, before it could be wrench'd from her, and then took Sanctuary in the Coffee-house; but the same was immediately beset, and the People refusing either to produce the Woman, or acquaint the Footmen who she was, they forc'd themselves into the Room, broke all the Glasses and China

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Cast
Role: Foppington Actor: Cibber Jr
Role: Morelove Actor: Mills
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Wm. Mills
Role: Lady Betty Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Lady Easy Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Edging Actor: Miss Raftor.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Jobson Actor: Harper
Role: Nell Actor: Miss Raftor
Role: Sir John Actor: Stoppelaer
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Grace
Role: Mr Wilks Actor: .

Dance: Denoyer, Mrs Booth, Essex, Miss Robinson, Haughton, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. A New Oratorio in English. Composed by Mr Handel. And to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. The House to be fitted up and illuminated in a new and particular manner. Tickets One Guinea. Gallery Half a Guinea. [Text by Samuel Humphreys. Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] Daily Advertiser, 20 March: An Entertainment, perhaps, the most magnificent that has ever been exhibited on an English Theatre....The Composition of the Musick is by no means inferior to the most finish'd of that Gentleman's Works; but the Disposition of the Performers was in a Taste beyond what has been attempted. There was a very great Number of Instruments by the best Hands, and such as would properly accompany three Organs. The Pit and Orchestre were cover'd as at an Assembly, and the whole House Illuminated in a new and most beautiful manner. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Performance Comment: Edition of 1733 does not list performers' names, but Daily Advertiser, 20 March, states: Wherein Principal Parts-Signor Senosini, Signora Strada, Signora Gismundi, Signora Bertoldi, Signor Montagnana, Miss Young, Miss Arne, Mrs Wright, Mr Swartzs[, perform'd the principal Parts. [See also Deutsch, Handel, p. 308, and Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 236.], perform'd the principal Parts. [See also Deutsch, Handel, p. 308, and Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 236.]
Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 28 March: Their Majesties, together with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses were again...to see Deborah...at which was likewise present one of the most numerous Audiences of Nobility and Persons of Distinction that has been ever seen in any Theatre. Egmont, Diary, I, 345: It was very magnificent, near a hundred performers, among whom about twenty-five singers. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Event Comment: [K$King, Queen, Prince, three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

Event Comment: At 6:30 p.m. [Their Majesties and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

Event Comment: [T$The King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

Event Comment: [T$The King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

Event Comment: As 4 June. [The two youngest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Master Arne
Role: King Actor: Mountier
Role: Grizzle Actor: Waltz
Role: Noddle Actor: Snider
Role: Doodle Actor: Minet
Role: Merlin Actor: Davis
Role: Parson Actor: Snider
Role: Ghost Actor: Waltz
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Jones
Role: Huncamunca Actor: Mrs Mason
Role: Glumdalca Actor: Mrs Camano
Role: Cleora Actor: Miss Palms
Role: Mustacha Actor: Miss Bennet.

Dance: As17330604

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. [Their Majesties, Duke, and all the Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Cast
Role: Lovegold Actor: Norris
Role: Lappet Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Frederick Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Holliday
Role: Clerimont Actor: Richardson
Role: Wheedle Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Ramilie Actor: Stoppelaer
Role: Mrs Wisely Actor: Mrs Herle
Role: James Actor: Mullart
Role: Mariana Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Cast
Role: Petit Maitre Actor: Mlle Grognet
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Harlequin Actor: Le Brun
Role: Beau Mordecai Actor: Stoppelaer
Role: Debauchee Actor: Mullart
Role: Poudre Actor: Hewson
Role: Mittimus Actor: Topham
Role: Madam Decoy Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Constable Actor: Jones
Role: Keeper Actor: Burnet
Role: Porter Actor: Hallam
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Bess Brindle Actor: Leigh
Role: Pompey Actor: Young Carney
Role: Le Coutillion Actor: Lally
Role: Hungarians Actor: Lally Jr, Mrs Walter
Role: Fingalians Actor: Davenport, Miss Mears
Role: Punch Actor: Olbeldiston
Role: Pierrot Actor: Hewson
Role: Mezzetin Actor: Leigh
Role: Ladies of Pleasure Actor: Mrs Anderson, Miss Atherton, Mrs De Lorme
Role: Marquis de Fresco Actor: Arlequin en Chien
Role: Marquise de Fresco Actor: Mlle Arlequin en Chienne

Dance: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun

Event Comment: King, Queen, three eldest Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Apostolo Zeno. Recitatives by Handel. Prince and three eldest Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caius Fabricius