Event Comment: A New Opera [a pasticcio,
Metastasio text altered by
Rolli, form
Pergolesi's
Olimpiade, 1735 (
Loewenberg,
Annals of Opera, I, 183)]. Music by Pergolesi,
Scarlatti,
Lampugnani.
L. Leo,
F. Leo [libretto in
L. C.]. Two of the principal Performers being greatly indispos'd, the Dancers are oblig'd to be deferr'd.
Thomas Gray to
John Chute, 24 May: Our fifth Opera was the Olimpiade, in which they retain'd most of Pergolesi's Songs & yet 'tis gone already, as if it had been a poor thing of
Galuppi's. Two nights did I enjoy it all alone, snugg in a Nook in the Gallery, but found no one in those regions had ever heard of Pergolesi, nay, I heard several affirm it was a Composition of
Pescetti's.-Gray,
Correspondence, I, 203
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Meraspe O L'olimpiade
Performance Comment: Monticelli, Amorevoli, Signora Moscovita, Signora Visconti [from libretto in L. C].