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1642 results for: Keyword - Sga Crespi
We found 903 matches on Performance Comments, 650 matches on Performance Title, 218 matches on Event Comments, 154 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

1626
07 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Miss Ambrose, Sga Tinte and Branson will be admitted this Evening. Receipts: #201 11s. (127.6.6; 2.9.6; tickets: 71.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: The Poney Races, as17780421

1627
23 October 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: La Soiree a la Mode-Dagueville, Mast. Holland, Harris, Sga Tinte

Performance Comment: Holland, Harris, Sga Tinte.

1628
22 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Calypso [announced on playbill of 21 Apr.] is unavoidably postponed on account of Reinhold's Hoarseness. Tickets delivered by Miss Ambrose, Branson, Thompson, Sga Tinte and the Widow of the late Dr Arne, for Calypso, will be taken this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

1629
18 December 1781 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Prudom and Sga Allegranti continuing very much indisposed, and Pacchicrotti positively refusing to perform without a First Woman, the Public are respectfully informed that there can be no Opera this Evening

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

1630
15 January 1782 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Performance Comment: As17820110, but added: Sga Salpietro .

Dance: As17820110 throughout

1631
12 November 1782 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Opera this Evening. The new Serious Opera of Medonte, intended for King's representation this Evening, is deferred till Thursday the 14th instant, on account of Sga Morigi's not being quite recovered from a very severe indisposition

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

1632
29 January 1785 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrio

Performance Comment: As17850108, but omitted: Sga Rachele Dorta .

Dance: As17850111 throughout

1633
12 March 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17841213. imitations. End of mainpiece the celebrated Musical Child (from the Pantheon) will perform a Musical Oglio, consisting of various Theatrical and Vocal Imitations [of Miss George, Mrs Bannister, Sga Sestini, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Wells, Edwin (Morning Chronicle, 16 Mar., which also states, without further indentification, that the performer was a young girl)] .

1634
21 March 1786 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Perseo

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Babbini, Tasca, Bartolini, Schinotti, Simonetti (1st appearance); Sga Catenacci, Mme Mara. [Libretto (T. Cadell, 1774) lists the parts: Perseo, Barsene, Cefeo, Anfrisio; Andromeda, Tomiri.] hathi.

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement Villageois, as17860218; End of Act II Dance incidental to the Opera by Henry, Duquesney Qun.], the two Mlles Simonet; End of Opera New Divertissement, as17860311athi

1635
25 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: End I, end 1st piece: those Dramatic Imitations-Mrs Wells [of which the Public have deigned to think so flatteringly; In the First Part: Traits of Tragic Comic and Vocal Characters-; The Second will conclude: a Scene from Two great Tragic Actresses of this Country-. [The First Part consisted of imitations of Mrs Siddons in the "ring" scene in IV.ii of Isabella; Mrs Wrighten singing Tally ho; Sga Sestini as Jessamy in Lionel and Clarissa; Mrs Abington in The Way to Keep Him; Mrs Martyr in Robin Hood. The Second concluded with Mrs Siddons and Mrs Crawford as Jane Shore and Alicia in Jane Shore (World, 26 Apr.). Public Advertiser, 26 Apr., states that she also imitated Mrs Crouch, Mrs Cargill and Mrs Pope. The imitations were preceded by an Introduction written by Miles Peter Andrews (World, 28 Apr.).

Performance Comment: [The First Part consisted of imitations of Mrs Siddons in the "ring" scene in IV.ii of Isabella; Mrs Wrighten singing Tally ho; Sga Sestini as Jessamy in Lionel and Clarissa; Mrs Abington in The Way to Keep Him; Mrs Martyr in Robin Hood. The Second concluded with Mrs Siddons and Mrs Crawford as Jane Shore and Alicia in Jane Shore (World, 26 Apr.). Public Advertiser, 26 Apr., states that she also imitated Mrs Crouch, Mrs Cargill and Mrs Pope. The imitations were preceded by an Introduction written by Miles Peter Andrews (World, 28 Apr.).]

1636
27 February 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Coronation Anthem, God Save The King

Afterpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Performers-Harrison, Pearson (Principal Alto at the Concert of Ancient Music), Griffiths, Champness, Sale (Principal Basses at the Concert of Ancient Music), Miss Cantelo, Sga Storace; Among the Instrumental Performers-Richards (Leader of the Band), Ashley, Ashley's Sons, Sperati, Patria, Sarjant, Gariboldi, Boyce, Knyvett (Organ).

Music: End Part I Oratorio: concerto on the violin [by Viotti (World, 28 Feb.)]-Mme Gautherot (from Paris; 2nd public performance in this Kingdom)

1637
15 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist; Or, Stop Him Who Can

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Entertainment: Imitations. In: Vocal Imitations-Mrs Wells [of Mrs Martyr, Sga Sestini, Kelly, Mrs Crouch (Diary, 16 May)]; End: a Scene from the two Great Tragic Actresses of the Country [Mrs Crawford as Alicia and Mrs Siddons as Jane Shore (Diary)]-Mrs Wells; [with one speech [afterwards pourtraying the different manners of both ["For ever! Oh, for ever!" i.e. the concluding speech of Act IV of Jane Shore (Diary)]-Mrs Wells

Performance Comment: In: Vocal Imitations-Mrs Wells [of Mrs Martyr, Sga Sestini, Kelly, Mrs Crouch (Diary, 16 May)]; End: a Scene from the two Great Tragic Actresses of the Country [Mrs Crawford as Alicia and Mrs Siddons as Jane Shore (Diary)]-Mrs Wells; [with one speech [afterwards pourtraying the different manners of both ["For ever! Oh, for ever!" i.e. the concluding speech of Act IV of Jane Shore (Diary)]-Mrs Wells.

1638
28 March 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Performers as17940319eader as17940312ARTS I, II. As17940319ART III. As17940319but I know that my Redeemer liveth by Sga Storace .

Music: End of Part I concerto on the oboe by W. Parke; End of Part II concerto on the violin by Giornovichi, in which the favourite air of Lullaby

1639
29 March 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: MY GRANDMOTHER

Performance Comment: Characters by Bannister Jun., Suett, Bland, Benson, Maddocks, Caulfield//Mrs Bland, Sga Storace. [And see17931216.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

1640
15 March 1796 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Due Gobbi

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Viganoni (1st appearance at this theatre), Morelli, Sga Fabrizzi. [Larpent MS 118 lists the parts: Rosignolo, Pandolfo, Lucindo, Trastullo, Costanza, Rosaura, Lisetta.]Larpent MS 118 lists the parts: Rosignolo, Pandolfo, Lucindo, Trastullo, Costanza, Rosaura, Lisetta.]

Dance: End I: Divertissement-[, as17960310 End Opera: Le Bouquet- [see17960305

1641
22 February 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. With Additions from Dryden; the Musick by Purcell and Dr Arne, and the new Airs and Chorusses by the late Mr Linley Jun. [Afterpiece in place of A Friend in Need, advertised on playbill of 21 Feb.] The Publick is respectfully informed that on Account of the sudden Indisposition of Sga Bossi DelCaro, The Scotch Ghost [advertised on playbill of 21 Feb.] cannot be performed this Evening (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill). Receipts: #212 2s. 6d. (145.1.0; 61.0.0; 6.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Sedgwick, Dignum, Caulfield, Cooke, Master Welsh, Miss Leak, Miss D'Evelyn

Monologue: V: The Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Sedgwick; Amphitrite-Miss D'Evelyn

1642
31 January 1798 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill announces La Scola dei Maritati, but "The indisposition of Sga Angelelli made an alteration in the opera, and the audience were gratified with Mme Mara (recte Banti) in Nina" (Morning Chronicle, 1 Feb.).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nina

Dance: As17971230