Event Comment: Opera [1st time; Past 3, author unknown].
The music [to Part I] composed by
Giovanni Battista? Bianchi, [to Part II by]
Rauzzini, [to Part III by]
Giordani. With Grand Chorusses. With new Decorations devised and painted by
Novosielski, and new Dresses.
The Side-boards, with a cold Collation and all sorts of Wines, at 12 o'clock.
The Performance under
the direction of
Vestris Sen., and to conclude with a Ball. Tickets, at 2 Guineas each, are ready to be delivered at
the Office in
Union-court, where Boxes may be taken. No Masks will be admitted.
The Doors will be opened at 9:00, and
the Performance to begin at 10:00. Books of
the Performance will be given out (gratis) at
the Theatre.
Morning Herald, 7 June:
The Omaggio, or homage paid by
the vassals and tenants to
their Lord, is naturally calcu
lated to give free scope to lively, and sentimental music. In
the former stile Bianchi and
Giardini [sic] were equally succesful; and in
the latter Rauzzini was surprisingly great, both as composer and performer...
Slingsby would, in our opinion, have come out with as great a share of applause as
the best of
them, having to go through an
English dance in his own stile, but by some unaccountable accident...
the music-band stopped short when he was in
the very climax of his exertions.
The scenes are in
the rural stile, with
the addition of natural trees, flowering shrubs, &c., set in
the neatest order...
The company did not begin to move till about four, and by five
the rooms were cleared.
Public Advertiser, 7 June:
The Vestris' gave incontrovertible proof of
the variety of
their powers...
They did more,
they shewed what this country had never seen-
the possibility of presenting to
the eye a large and extensive stage filled with dancers all in motion at
the same time