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18 December 1784
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Il Curioso Indiscreto
Dance:
End of
Act
I an entirely new Divertissement (composed by Lepicq) by Nivelon, Mlle Dorival (from
the
Opera-House in Paris;
the
ir
1st
appearance), Frederic, Mme Julien, Mlle Fusi, Mme Bithmer (
the
ir
1st
appearance), Henry, Zuchelli, Sg and Sga Pitrot Angiolini (from
the
King's
The
atre at Naples;
the
ir
1st
appearance); End of Opera a new Grand Ballet (composed by Lepicq) Le Parti de Chasse d'Henry IV-King Henry rv-Angiolini;
the
o
the
r Char
act
ers by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Frederic, Mlle Dorival, Zuchelli, Nivelon, Sga Pitrot Angiolini
2
10 July 1786
@ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Heiress
Afterpiece Title:
Peeping Tom of Coventry
Afterpiece Title:
Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday
Song:
End of
Act
I of mainpiece Sweet Poll of Plymouth by Master Muffett of Hammersmith (
1st
appearance in public); In
Act
II an incidental song, accompanied by
the
pedal harp, by Miss Phillips; End of mainpiece Let Fame sound
the
Trumpet, as sung by Johnstone in Fontainbleau, by a Young Gentleman (
1st
appearance)
Monologue:
1786 07 10 End of last song Parents and Children, as 28 June
3
16 April 1768
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Every Man In His Humour
Afterpiece Title:
Thomasand Sally
Dance:
End I:
Comic Dance
-Arnauld, Miss Capon apprentice to
Fishar
; End
Act
II: By Particular Desire,
The
Dutch Milkmaid
, as17671114; End
Act
III: A New Grand Ballet, that night only, call'd
The
Tartarians
-Fishar, Sga Manesiere (with New Dresses); End
Act
IV: a New Pantomime Dance, call'd
The
Spanish Coal@Heaver
-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, both apprentices of Fishar
Ballet:
End:
The
Wapping Landlady. Jack in Distress-Fishar; Landlady-Miles; Milk@woman-Sga Manesiere; A
Double Hornpipe
-Fishar, Sga Manesiere
4
09 May 1774
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
West Indian
Afterpiece Title:
The
Gentle Shepherd
Entertainment:
End
Act
II:
Imitations
[, Vocal and Rhetorical-Bannister; [
Act
III:
An Ode to Masonry
-Vernon, Dodd, Bannister; [
Act
V:
Judge Tycho's Sentence
-Weston. [See17740505.
5
10 January 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
La Buona Figliuola
Dance:
End of
Act
I Pastoral Dance, as17811128; End of
Act
II Divertisement Dance, as17811117; End of
Act
in a new Serious Dance, composed by Noverre, Le Triompbe de l'Amour Conjugal, by Gardel, Mme Simonet, Nivelon, Mlle
The
odore, Mlle Baccelli. [Cast from libretto of Giunio Bruto (E. Cox, 1781), where it is entitled Alceste: Admetus-Gardel; Alceste-Mme Simonet; Apollo-Nivelon; Hebe-Mlle
The
odore; Iris-Mlle Baccelli.]
6
26 January 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Ezio
Dance:
End of
Act
I Pastoral Dance, as17811128, to finish with a new minuet (composed by Noverre and
the
music by Le Brun),
The
Prince of Wales's Minuet, by Gardel and Mme Simonet; End of
Act
II Divertisement Dance, as17811117; End of
Act
III Le Triomphe de l'Amour Conjugal, as17820110
7
07 February 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
La Buona Figliuola
Dance:
End of
Act
I Pastoral Dance, as17811128; End of
Act
II a New Divertisement Dance (composed by Simonet), to conclude with a grand Chacomme [
the
music] by Piccinni, by Gardel, Mlle Baccelli, Nivelon, Mlle
The
odore, Slingsby; End of
Act
III Le Triomphe de l'Amour Conjugal, as17820110
8
14 February 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
La Buona Figliuola
Dance:
End of
Act
I Pastoral Dance, as17811128; End of
Act
II New Divertisement Dance, as17820207, but omitted: Mlle
The
odore, Slingsby; End of
Act
III Le Triompbe de l'Amour Conjugal, as17820110
9
16 February 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Ezio
Dance:
End of
Act
I Pastoral Dance, as17811128; End of
Act
II New Divertisement Dance, as17820207, but omitted: Slingsby; End of
Act
III Le Triomphe del'Amour Conjugal, as17820110
10
26 February 1782
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Duenna
Afterpiece Title:
Tom Thumb
Dance:
End of mainpiece, as17820221
Song:
End of
Act
I of mainpiece
The
Huntsman's sweet Halloo; End of
Act
II If o'er
the
cruel Tyrant, Love (from Artaxerxes); In afterpiece
the
original song to Fischar's Minuet; End of
Act
I
The
Wanton God (from Comus); End of afterpiece Push about
the
Jorum, with an additional verse to Miss Catley's Friends, all five sung by Miss Catley
11
28 February 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Ezio
Dance:
End of
Act
I pastoral Dance, as17811117, but added: with a Pas Seul by Mlle Simonet; End of
Act
II New Divertisement Dance, as17820216; End of
Act
III Rinaldo and Armida, as17820223
12
07 March 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Quinto Fabio
Dance:
End of
Act
I Pastoral Dance, as17820129; End of
Act
II New Divertisement Dance, as17820216; End of
Act
III Divertisement Dance, as17811117, but Raymond in place of Bournonville
13
16 March 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
L'eroe Cinese
Dance:
End of
Act
I Divertisement Dance, as17820205; End of
Act
II New Divertisement Dance, as17820216; End of
Act
III Le Triomphe de l'Amour Conjugal, as17820110
14
23 March 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
L'eroe Cinese
Dance:
End of
Act
I Divertisement Dance, as17811117; End of
Act
II New Divertisement Dance, as17820216; End of
Act
III Rinaldo and Armida, as17820223
15
09 April 1782
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Beggar's Opera
Afterpiece Title:
The
Dragon of Wantley
Dance:
End of mainpiece
The
Gala, as17820402, but omitted: Dumay, Miss Mat
the
ws
Song:
End of
Act
I of mainpiece
The
Early Horn; End of
Act
I of afterpiece
The
Lamentation of Mary Queen of Scots; End of
Act
II Auld Robin Grey, all three sung by Mrs Kennedy
16
04 May 1782
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Beggar's Opera
Afterpiece Title:
Tom Thumb
Song:
End of
Act
I of mainpiece
The
Huntsman's street Halloo and
The
Death of
the
Stag by Miss Catley and a Young Gentleman (
1st
time [unidentified)); End of
Act
II
The
Early Horn by
the
same Gentleman; In afterpiece
The
Soldier tired of War's Alarms by Miss Catley
17
14 May 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
L'eroe Cinese
Dance:
End of
Act
I New Divertisement Dance, as17820216; End of
Act
II Apollon et les Muses, as17820509; End of
Act
III New Dance, as17820507
18
10 December 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Il Convito
Dance:
End of
Act
I Apelles and Campaspe, as17821102; End of
Act
II New Divertisement, as17821130, and added: a second Pas de Deux by Master Laborie and Miss Simonet (
the
ir
1st
appearance)
19
11 January 1783
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Medonte
Dance:
End of
Act
I New Divertisement, as17821130; End of
Act
II an entirely new Ballet (
1st
time; composed by Lepicq), he Tuteur Trompl; or,
The
Guardian Outwitted, by Lepicq, Slingsby, Henry, Zuchelli, Sga Crespi, Mlle
The
odore, Mme Rossi, with two Pas de Basque by Mlle
The
odore
20
28 June 1783
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
L'olimpiade
Dance:
End of
Act
I II Riposo del Campo, as17830603 with a Pas Seul, as17830531; End of
Act
II Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830614 End of
Act
III
The
famous new ballet
The
Four Nations, performed but twice at
the
Pan
the
on [on 17 and 24 June, when it was announced as composed by Lepicq, "representing four different Nations: Mme Simonet
the
French, Slingsby and Mlle
The
odore
the
English, Zuchelli and Sga Crespi
the
African, Lepicq and Mme Rossi
the
Cosaque-Polonois, with several Pas de Deux, each of
the
m suited to
the
National Char
act
ers"]
21
04 March 1784
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Demofoonte
Music:
Between
the
1st
and 2nd
Act
s a sonata on
the
harpsichord by Clementi
Dance:
End of
Act
II Friendship leads to Love, as17831206, but omitted: Lepicq; End of Opera he Reveil du Bonheur, as17840203
Song:
Pacchierotti will conclude
the
1st
Act
with an entire new scene by Sarti; In
Act
III a song, composed by Handel, by Pacchierotti
22
27 March 1784
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Cymon
Afterpiece Title:
Rosina
Dance:
In
Act
I of mainpiece a Dance of Cupids; In
Act
IV a Dance of Daemons; In
Act
V a Grand Ballet (performers not listed)
23
24 April 1784
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Which Is
The
Man
Afterpiece Title:
The
Flitch of Bacon
Song:
End of
Act
II of mainpiece When Pboebus
the
tops of
the
bills does adorn by Reinhold and Mrs Kennedy; End of
Act
ni Poor ThomasDay by Edwin, Brett, Bannister; End of
Act
IV Mad Tom by Reinhold; End of mainpiece Hark!
the
Lark at Heav'n's Gate sings, and What shall be have who kill'd
the
Deer?, both by Master Bartleman, Bannister, Brett, Davies, Mrs Kennedy
24
30 April 1784
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Spanish Fryar
Dance:
End of
Act
I a new pantomimical, operatical, farcical interlude,
The
Peasant Metamorphosed; or, Delpini's Voyage from Dublin in an Air Balloon, in which Delpini will introduce a specimen of singing in French, Italian and English, and which will conclude with a new Hornpipe by
the
celebrated Blake (by permission of
the
Managers of
the
Opera-house; his
1st
appearance on that stage); End of
Act
II a comic pantomime dance,
The
Country Squabble, by Delpini, Mrs Dagville, Miss Parish, Duquesney Jun.; End of play a new pantomimical dance,
The
Rival Clowns, by Delpini, Blake, &c, in which
the
famous rondo of Orpheo, in Italian, by Delpini, and to conclude with an Allemande in a new comic stile
Song:
End of
Act
s II and III, by a Young Gentlewoman (
1st
appearance on any stage [unidentified])
25
15 July 1785
@ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Spanish Fryar; Or,
The
Comical Discovery
Afterpiece Title:
Midas
Afterpiece Title:
Mo
the
r Shipton; or, Harlequin Gladiator
Song:
End of
Act
II of
1st
piece
The
Pidgeon by Miss Cranford; End of
1st
piece Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row by Wellman
Monologue:
1785 07 15 End of 2nd song Bucks have at ye all by Benson
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