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Event Comment: A New Comic Opera. Benefit for Sig Crosa who brought into England the comedy of Italy. Set to Musick by the celebrated Cocchi of Naples. [Subscriber's tickets will not be admitted this Night. La Maestra published this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Maestra

Entertainment: Between the Acts: A new Interlude-Signor Laschi

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth opposite Cow Lane. With the surprising performances of an Englishman and a Citizen of London [Lort] who performs all the Equilibres on the Slack Rope that were performed by the muchfamed Turk. Prices: 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d. To begin at Twelve. [Time and prices the same at all booths.] Afterpiece: With the Escape of Harlequin into a Glass Bottle, also the last new additional Scene of Sig Jumpedo Jumping Down his own Throat. [An unhappy evening, for "last night the gallery of Phillips' booth fell down, with a great number of people in it, by which accident several persons were hurt, and some dangerously. This misfortune could be owing to nothing but the carelessness of the workmen, who upon such occasions deserve to be severely punished" (General Advertiser, 24 Aug.). The Daily Advertiser noted that Mr Stringellow, a goldsmith, in Aldersgate St., and Thomas Hodges, a journeyman-plaisterer in Golden Lane, were killed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Event Comment: By Desire of Several Persons of Quality. [Scheduled performance of 17 March, cancelled because of "The Indisposition of Sig Laschi."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Negligente

Event Comment: Benefit Signor Laschi, with Comic Interludes between the Acts, called La Serva Padrona. The music composed by Sig Gio. Batista Pergolesi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano In Siria

Afterpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Event Comment: Benefit Sig Croza

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Trionfo Di Camilla

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Animal Pantomime

Performance Comment: Pantomime Entertainment. The Animal Comedians brought from Italy by Sig Ballard.
Event Comment: Benefit for Master Benjamin Hallet and Sig Gapatono

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Song: TThe Dust Cart-Toe; accompanied-, Bombasto; Grand Dance in the Old British Taste-; Hornpipe-Timertoe

Event Comment: A New Opera composed by Sig Ciampi. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone

Event Comment: Comic Opera in Italian and French, 3 Acts (Larpent MS 107). Subtitle, O Sia, Il Finto Femmina. La Musica e del Sig Leonardo Leo, Maestro di Capella Napolitano (Edition of 1752, Amsterdam). [Rich had applied for license to Duke of Grafton 8 Feb.] This day at Noon will be publish'd at 1s. L'Amor Costante, Dramma Comico, pe Musica, as it is acted at Covent Garden. With an English translation. Sold by H. Woodfall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'amour Costante

Dance: [Unspecified.]

Event Comment: Composed by Sig Perez. [The first advance bill attributed it to Hasse.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ezio

Performance Comment: Signora Mingotti will sing this evening.
Event Comment: A new Opera. [But not performed.] 'Twas with inexpressible Concern that Mr Vanneschi found the Nobility and Gentry disappointed last Night, by the new Opera's not being then performed; a circumstance wholly owing to Sig Ricciarelli's being, on a sudden, taken extremely ill Yesterday, at an hour too late for its being made known to the Public (Public Advertiser, 11 Feb.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Event Comment: A New Opera. First performance in England. The Musick composed by Sig Abos

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tito Manlio

Performance Comment: Titus Manlius-Pazzagli; Manlius-Ricciarelli; Servilia-Signora Mingotti; Sabina-Signora Frasi; Lucius-Signora Mattei; Decius-Signora Mondini (1756 libretto).
Cast
Role: Servilia Actor: Signora Mingotti
Role: Sabina Actor: Signora Frasi
Role: Lucius Actor: Signora Mattei
Role: Decius Actor: Signora Mondini

Dance: NNew Dances-

Event Comment: With new Music compos'd by Sig Nicola Conforto, and new Dances. A new Scene painted by Mr Mitermayer. [Repeated in the bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

Event Comment: Opera by Sig Hasse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Re Pastore

Dance: With Dances

Event Comment: A New Opera. The Musick by Sig Baldassare Galuppi. [Mingotti had been advertising for subscriptions for next season but now Vanneschi announces that he was secured the licence for next year from the Lord Chamberlain and he is the new Director of the operas (Daily Advertiser).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Euristeo

Performance Comment: Creonte-Pazzaglia; Antigona-Signora Mingotti; Eurifreo-Ricciarelli; Ermione-Signora Passerini; Learco-Signora Grandis; Ormonte-Mareschi (Larpent MS).
Cast
Role: Antigona Actor: Signora Mingotti
Role: Ermione Actor: Signora Passerini
Role: Learco Actor: Signora Grandis

Dance: With New dances-

Event Comment: A New Opera. Ths Musick newly composed by Sig Cocchi. New Clothes, Decorations, and Dances. [On Monday 13 March Sga Frasi published in the Public Advertiser thanks for those who supported her benefit (6 March) and apologized for deficiencies in the performances. Some of the principals were engaged in the run of the new tragedy [The Prophetess? Mariamne?] whose run she could not anticipate.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Issipile

Event Comment: A new Opera, the music newly compos'd by Sig Cocchi. With New Decorations and New Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

Performance Comment: Libretto of 1759 lists: Astioges-Gaetano Quilici; Mandane-Signora Colomba Mattei; Cyrus-Paquale Potenza; Cambises-Ferdinando Tenducci called Senesino; Arpalice-Signora Angiola Calori; Egistus-Laura Rosa.

Dance: Director of Dances: Giovanni Gallini Dancers-Gallini, Signora Rosa Carlini, Giuseppe Forti, Signora Giac. Bonomi

Event Comment: A New Opera. Music by Sig Perez. New Scenes, New Cloaths, and New Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Farnace

Event Comment: Benefit Sig and Signora Forti. [Actually a charity benefit, as the ship with their costumes was seized by the French.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

Dance: new dance% Il Divertimento Napolitano-

Event Comment: Afterpiece: An English Burtetta from the Italian. Music by Sig Adolfo Hasse (playbill). Burletta Damn'd (Cross). Acted but once and not printed (Genest, IV, 579). Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

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Role: Lusignan Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Tutor

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga DeAmicis, who will present it [the afterpiece] in its own natural beauty, such as it originally came from the hands of the ingenious author Sig Pergolesi, and as it was first done at Naples, in order to give the Nobility and Gentry the most favorable idea of so masterly a piece. Pit and Boxes to be put together at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Tutore E La Pupilla

Afterpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit for Manzoli. The Music entirely new, composed by Giardini. On account of the great Demand for Gallery Tickets, Sig Manzoli is obliged to appropriate the Upper Gallery for this Night. Gallery, Pit and Boxes will be open at 4. To begin precisely at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Re Pastore

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliola

Performance Comment: cnl, but Sig Lovatini will perform tonight.
Event Comment: A Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Music benefit for Mrs Pinto. Songs by Mrs Forbes, Master Brown, and Mrs Pinto. Concertos on the organ and Hautboy by Hook and Park. After which will be performed for the first time a Pastoral Serenata called Love and Innocence, in two acts composed by Mr Hook, with chorusses. An elegant transparent Temple of Apollo designed and painted by Sig Bigar, machinist to the Opera House. The Gardens will be additionally illuminated. Fireworks. The whole to conclude with a Ball

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Innocence

Event Comment: The above opera will be perform'd owing to the sudden indisposition of Sig Lovattini, the first man in the Comic Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cosroe