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151 results for: Keyword - Signior Vivaldi
We found 58 matches on Performance Title, 41 matches on Performance Comments, 41 matches on Event Comments, 15 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

126
05 December 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Aaron Hill.] On Shakespear's Foundation. With several Sets of Scenes entirely new and properWto the Play. [In an advance notice in Daily Journal, 6 Nov., the scenes are reported to be designed by Signior Angelo, an Italian.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Vth; Or, The Conquest Of France By The English

127
17 October 1724 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Journal, 17 Oct.: We hear there is a new Opera now in Practice...called, Tamerlane, the Musick composed by Mynheer Hendel, and that Signior Borseni, newly arriv'd from Italy, is to sing the Part of the Tyrant Bajazet. N.B. It is commonly reported this Gentleman was never cut out for a Singer

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128
24 June 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Signior Bononcini. Queen, Prince, and princesses present. [For a comment upon the entertainment, see The Craftsman, 12 August (partially reproduced in Deutsch, Handel, p. 295), and Daily Post, 9 June (also in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 293-94).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Pastoral Entertainment

129
15 June 1733 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 13 June: The Subscribers to the Opera in which Signior Senesino and Signora Cuzzoni are to perform [the Opera of the Nobility], are desired to meet at Mr Hickford's Great Room in Panton-street, on Friday next by Eleven o'Clock, in order to settle proper Methods for carrying on the Subscription

Performances

130
02 March 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Compos'd by Signior Bononcini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Astartus

131
29 October 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Metastasio. Music by J. A. Hasse and R. Broschi.] Pit and Boxes by Tickets at a half guinea. Gallery 5s. 6 P.M. Daily Advertiser, 30 Oct.: All the Royal Family were at the Opera, when Signior Farinelli perform'd . . . with prodigious Applause. The Theatre was exceedingly crowded

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

132
25 November 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [By Metastasio. Music by Francis Veracini. For a full account of this opera and opera in general, see Ilchester, Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 238-39.] Daily Advertiser, 26 Nov.: Their Majesties, his Royal Highness, and the Princesses [attended] Adriano, compos'd by the famous Signior Veracini, who perform'd the first Fiddle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

133
16 December 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 15 Dec: The Opera of Adriano, now performing with great Applause, particularly for some fine Songs in it, compos'd for Signior Farinello, having been thought by the King to be rather too long, M. Veracini has shorten'd it, and his Majesty has declar'd his Intention of being present at it [Tuesday 16]. We hear, that after this Opera has had its run, there will be a new one call'd Mithridates, the Drama of which is wrote in English by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureat, and translated from thence into Italian

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

134
05 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 6 May: Last Night the Opera of Ariodante was performed [at CG], in which Signior Gieacchino Conti Ghizziello made his first Appearance, and met with an uncommon Reception

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariodante

135
23 November 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Compos'd by Signior Hasse. [Text by Metastasio.] Pit and Boxes at half a guineas. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. [Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

136
27 November 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Signior Hasse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

137
30 November 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Signior Hasse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

138
04 December 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Signior Hasse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

139
14 December 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Signior Hasse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

140
18 December 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Signior Hasse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

141
21 December 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Signior Hasse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

142
01 January 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Composed by Signior Hasse. Afterpiece: A Comic Interlude. [Music by Giuseppe Maria Orlandini. Text by A. Salvi. Queen and all the Royal Family present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Afterpiece Title: Il Giocatore; or, The Gamester

Performance Comment: Edition of 1736 states that it was performed by Signiora Anna Maria Faini, Antonio Lottini.

143
25 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 26 April: Signior Rolli's new Opera Call'd Sabrina, was rehears'd Yesterday Morning in Mr Heidegger's Apartments, to a numerous and very splendid Audience of Ladies and Gentlemen. The Signora Antonia Maria Marchesini, lately arriv'd from Italy, perform'd in it with universal Approbation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sabrina

144
09 October 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Daily Advertiser: This evening their Royal Highnesses...will go to the theatre...to see the Comedy of the Committee, or the Faithful Irishman, and Dancing by Signior Brunoro, &c, being the first time of his appearing at that theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Dance: II: a New Comic Dance La Mascarada-Brunoro, Borromeo, Mlle Bonneval, Sga Costanza; V: New Comic Dance Les Matelotes-Brunoro, Borromeo, Mlle Bonneval, Sga Constanza

Song: III: Song-Beard

Music: IV: Concerto-Veracini

145
03 February 1750 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Delayed by Indisposition of Signior Melini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madame Ciana

146
25 September 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last Tuesday Signior Pasquali, Master of the Band of Music at the Theatre Royal, Mr Cibber and some other prominent players arriv'd from England to act the ensuing season [in Dublin]. Mrs Bland arriv'd [in Dublin] last Sunday from England and will appear tomorrow night in the character of Miranda in the Busy Body. Receipts: #180

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

147
17 March 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Performance Comment: See17520211, but will be introduc'd several new Tunes on the Jew's Harp never performed before-; A Solo in a new Taste-Signor Piantafugo; Salt@Box-; and the Performances of Signior Bombasto; Sg Bombazino as usual; a Solo of Humour on the French Horn-Mrs Midnight's Daughter; A New Prologue-a Gentleman; Epilogue-Hallet.

148
11 April 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Performance Comment: As17520401 but Signior _Bombasto; Sg _Bombasino.

149
21 January 1766 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new serious Opera. The Music entirely new-Signior Vento. With new Dances, new Cloaths and Decoration

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sofonisba

150
05 September 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: PPublic Advertiser, 5 Sept. 1769: Mr Crawford and Co. beg Leave to acquaint the Nobility and Gentry, with the following List of their new Singers, and others engaged for the serious and comic Operas next Season. Those marked thus& are new Performers, viz. Principal Singers for the Serious Operas: &Signior Guadini, first Man. &Signora Cecilia Grassi, first Woman. For comic or serious: Signor Lovattini, first Man. &Sig Zamperini, &Signora Guadini, first Women. &Signor Piatti, 2nd Man serious. &Signor Bianchi, Tenor, Signora Zamperini, Sig Morighi, Signora Piatti. Composer: Sig Guiglielmi. Principal Dancers: Mr Slingsby, &Signor Galiotti, &Signor Siminon, &Signora Guidi, Signora Radicatti, &Signora Gardel. Ballet Master: &Sig Campioni. [See 7 Nov.

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