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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

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Durastanti. All the Royal Family expected to attend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arbaces

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 2 Dec.: Signora Strada was taken violently ill of a Fever of sore Throat, so that the Opera of Porus could not be perform'd as was intended; which sudden Indisposition put it out of the Power of the Directors to give earlier Notice to the Town of their Disappointment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Pourceaugnac and Grilletta

Performance Comment: Edition of 1737 states that it was performed by Signora Anna Maria Faini, Antonio Lottini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrius

Afterpiece Title: Grullo and Moschetta

Performance Comment: Edition of 1737 lists: Performed by Signora Anna Maria Faini, Antonio Lottini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrius

Afterpiece Title: The Impresario

Performance Comment: Edition of 1737 states the performers were Signora Anna Maria Faini (who presumably sang Dorina), Antonio Lottini (who presumably sang Nibbio).
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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: An Ode of Mr Dryden's [For St

Performance Comment: Cecilia's Day]. Deutsch, Handel, p. 490, lists Signora Francesino, Beard; [With two new Concertos for several Instruments-.
Event Comment: Advertised but postponed by illness of Signora Francesina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hymen

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Maria Monza, 7p.m. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The First Violin-Veracini; The Violoncello-Caporale

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falshood

Opera: End II and IV: of the Play will be performed an Interlude in two Comick Scenes in Musick. betwixt Signor Capoccio, a Director from the Canary Islands, and Signora Dorinna, a Virtuosa; Capoccio-Waltz; Dorinna-Miss Hillier

Performance Comment: betwixt Signor Capoccio, a Director from the Canary Islands, and Signora Dorinna, a Virtuosa; Capoccio-Waltz; Dorinna-Miss Hillier.

Dance: I: Muzette, Tambourine-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; III: Les Niaise-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

Event Comment: Masque: By Particular Desire. The Gentlemen's Magazine for Jan. 1742 (p. 28) in an article On Two Italian Dancers comments rather fully on the Fausans' performance in Le Boufon; or the Idiot: My expectation was rais'd to the height but at their entrance on the stage, they alarm'd me by the inexpressive Agility and descriptive Action, Look and Motion, which were all performed With such mimic Variety, that I defy the most severe Cynic to say that they wou'd not at least raise in him an agreeable surprise, to see all the attitudes, Oddities and mock Gesticulations of the two Idiots, who may be suppos'd to be in Love with one another. It is not any distortion of Body or unnatural transposition of the limbs which they exhibit to the view, but the extravagant Idiotry which the passions of Love, Disdain, Joy, Resentment, would on a real occasion actuate on the personages they represent: Nor do they so manage their Dance that it is ungraceful: they take opportunities to show by actions and movements, that in their comic Humour they have an elegancy. This performance therefore, on Reflection, appear'd to me, instead of an unnatural extravaganza to be founded on the nicest Observations of Human Nature, and prove Signor and Signora to be persons of good judgment, as well as agility. Receipts: #80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Dance: LLe Boufon-the Fausans; Le Genereux Corsaire, as17411021

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Benefit Signora Fausan. Part of the Pit will be rail'd in, and added to the front boxes. Tickets and places in the Boxes to be had only of Mr West, at the Green Door in Duke St., Lincoln's Inn Fields; and for the Stage, of Mrs Moor, at the Sign of the Theatre in the Playhouse Passage. Receipts: #160. Rylands MS.: Duke &c attended

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Dance: I: Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17420208; II: Les Egyptiens-the Fausans; V: A New Grand Ballet-the Fausans, LaCroix, Constantini, Mrs Walter, Miss Story

Event Comment: By Desire. Daily Advertiser, 23 Dec.: On Saturday night last, at Covent Garden Playhouse, one William Wright, a young Man, who was in the Shilling Gallery, disapproving of Signora Domitilla's Dancing between the second the Third Acts, was without any Provocation, kick'd, beat, and abus'd etc

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Les Savoyards-Villeneuve, Sga Domitilla; La Provencale, as17421105

Event Comment: HHandel to Jennens: I have taken the Opera House in the Hay-marketh, engaged, as Singers, Signora Francesina, Miss Robinson, Beard, Reinhold, Mr Gates with his Boyes's and several of the best Chorus Singers from the Choirs, and I have some hopes that Mrs Cibber will sing for me. She sent word from Bath (where she is now) that she would perform for me next winter with great pleasure if it did not interfere with her playing, but I think I can obtain Mr Riches's permission (with whom she is engaged to play in Covent Garden House) since so obligingly he gave leave to Mr Beard and Mr Reinhold.--Deutsch Handel, pp. 591-92

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Frasi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'incostanza Deluza

Music: I: Concerto-Caporale; II: Concerto on the Hautboy-Vincent

Event Comment: [Handel paid Miss Robinson #210; on 11 May he paid Signora Franchesina #400. See Deutsch, Handel, 618-19.

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Campioni. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: I: The Italian Peasants, as17460306 II: Drunken Tyrolese-Sodi; III: Grand Dance in Momus-Villeneuve, Sga Campioni; V: a Grand Ballet reviv'd, call'd Pigmalion-Cooke, Sga Campioni

Song: IV: Song of Diana, as17460313

Event Comment: This Day open'd for the Summer Season at the New Wells, Shepherd's Market [near Hyde Park corner]...the usual Diversions after which will be presented Gratis, etc. The Doors to be open'd each day at Two o'Clock. We hear, that the Opera La Semiramide Reconosciuta (in which Signora Cassarini is to act the part of a King) will be performed but twice (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miss In Her Teens

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Fortune Teller

Entertainment: Italian Fireworks-as perform'd in the Opera House in the Haymarket

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Frasi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano In Siria

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Galli

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Forza D'amore

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Frasi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Forza D'amore

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Cuzzoni, since I am "involved in a few debts, before I quit England." At Hickford's Room, Brewer St. To begin at seven Price: 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Bugiani. Two rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: I: Il Pastore, as17521219; III: A New Dance after the Hungarian manner-Maranesi, Sga Bugiani; V: A Mock Minuet-Maranesi, Sga Bugiani

Event Comment: Oratorio by Mr Handel. Benefit for Signora Frasi; To begin at 7 p.m. Prices: Pit and Boxes at half a guinea each; Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: Organ-Stanley; First Violin-Sig Giardini