1734
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At the Desire of
several Persons of Distinction. By the Company of Comedians of His MAJESTY’s REVELS, AT the New Theatre in the HAY- MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 5th Day of January, will be presented a Comedy, call’d The SILENT WOMAN. Written by BEN JOHNSON. [...] To which (by Desire) will be added, A Ballad Farce, call’d The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos’d. [...] With Pieces of Musick between the Acts, selected from the Works of Sig. Corelli, Sig. Vivaldi, Sig. Geminiani, and Mr. Handel. [...][1] |
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Just published, Musick and
Fables, useful to Gentle men and Ladies &c. (finely
engrav’d on Copper-Plates) [...] IX. The OPERAS of Julius
Caesar, Rodelinda, Scipio,
Alexander, and the rest of Mr. Handel’s Operas in
Score, and for the Flute. [...] Printed and sold by Thomas Cobb, at his Printing-Office, in Bow-Church-Yard: and by B. Creak, at the Red-Bible, in Ave-Mary-Lane, near St. Paul’s.[2] |
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[Lady to Strafford to the Earl of Strafford] ST. JAMES’S SQUARE, January 8, 1734. ..... I hope Wardman will com to London, if he does he shall see an opera and all the Royall famely. [...][3] |
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Last Night their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the three eldest Princesses, went to the King’s Theatre in the Hay-market, and saw the new Opera, called Arbaces.[4] |
Jan 10
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[Earl of Egmont’s Diary, Thursday 10 January 1733-4] Mrs. Bertoldi and Signor Scalci, the Opera singers, dined with me, as did the son of Dean Percival.[5] |
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Preliminary articles of peace between the Patentees and the Revel company of Comedians. I. There shall instantly commence an entire suspension of arms on both sides. [... 2 ...] XIII. The most high and puissant JOHN FREDERICK HANDELL, prince Palatine of the Hay-market, the most sublime JOHN JAMES HEIDEGGER, count of the most sacred and holy Roman Empire, and the most noble and illustrious Signior SENESINO, little duke of Tuscany, do engage for themselves, their heirs and successors, to become guarantees for the due performance and execution of all, every, and singular the articles of this present treaty. Done in the camp in New-palace-yard before Westminster-hall, this 28th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1733.[6] |
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[Thomas Bowen to the Earl of Essex] 24th. Janry 1733/4 [...] This I beleive will find you returned from the Carnaval, where I hope your Lordsp and Lady Essex have been well Entertained. Our Opera, here, is in great Division, and Harmony has [103v] a great deal to do to Support herself: for between the Competition of the Two Houses neither of them is full enough to pay much more than the Charges; but I think Senesino has the better of it. [...][7] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 26th Day of January, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[8] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the 29th Day of January, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[9] |
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[Earl of Egmont’s Diary, Tuesday 29 January 1733-4] [...] Dined at home, and then went to Hendel’s opera, called “Ariadne.”[10] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 2d Day of February, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[11] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the 5th Day of February, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[12] |
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NEW MUSICK, This Day Published, THE Favourite Songs in the Opera, call’d Arbaces, as they are perform’d at the King’s Theatre in the Hay-market. Price 2 s. 6 d. Printed for an sold by JOHN WALSH, at the Harp and Hautboy in Catherine-street in the Strand. [...][13] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 9th Day of February, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[14] |
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[Earl of Egmont’s Diary, Saturday 9 February 1733-4] I went to Court, and at my return to dinner found Robert Page [an acquaintance of his son] [...] In the evening I carried him to the Opera.[15] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the 12th Day of February, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[16] |
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[Earl of Egmont’s Diary, 15 February 1733-4] Friday, 15. [...] In the evening I had my winter’s concert for the first time. The performers were: On the violoncello, Signor Caporalli, Mr. Pain, Mr. Withington; on the violin, Mr. Needler, Mr. Mulso, Mr. Mellan, Mr. Sambroke, brother Precival, son Hanmer, Mr. Verner; on the hautbois, Mr. Bothmar: the great bass, Mr. ——. The singers were Mr Matheis, Mrs. Bertholdi, daughter Hanmer, and daughter Helena, and Signor Aragoni; the harpsichord, Mr. Bagnall. The company were the Duchess of Kent, Lady Nassau, Lady —— Nassau, Baron Hatolf’s Lady and daughters, Lady Hanmer, Lady ——— Leg, Mrs. Minshull, sister Percival, cousin Scot, Duke of Portland, Sir Thomas Hanmer, Sir Jo. Evelyn, Mr. Hill, Mr. Baker, Mr. Clerk, Count de Leck, cousin Fortrey, Sir Charles Bunbury.[17] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 16th Day of February, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[18] |
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[Earl of Egmont’s Diary, Saturday 16 February 1733-4] Saturday, 16. — I visited my cousin Whorwood and the Duke of Portland; afterwards went to the Crown Tavern to hear the practice of Hendel’s Te Deum, and other music to be performed at St. Paul’s on Tuesday next at the Festival of the Sons of the Clergy. [...][19] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the 19th Day of February, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[20] |
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Last Night their Majesty’s [sic] and the Princesses went to the Opera-house in the Hay-market, and saw an Opera call’d Ariadne.[21] |
Feb 23
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[Edward Holdsworth at ‘Mr Downes’s at Otterbourn near Winchester’ to Charles Jennens] I am in no danger of doing my self mischief here by over-application; we have scarce a book in the house, except the bible, worth looking into, and my study at present consists in reading the dayly Advert. and London Evening post, wch we are oblig’d to send 2 or 3 miles for once a week. I shall rejoice to hear of [1v] your good health, & of the good success of the Prodigious wch I doubt not will keep you in high spirits. […][22] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 23d Day of February, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[23] |
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MUSICK this Day publish’d. THE Favourite Songs in the Opera, call’d Ariadne; also the Favourite Songs in Arbaces, with their Symphonies in Score. Printed for John Walsh, Musick-Printer and Instrument- maker to his Majesty, at the Harp and Hautboy in Catherine-street in the Strand. Where may be had, [...] 4. The Celebrated Te Deum and Jubilate for Voices and Instruments; as it was perform’d at St. Paul’s. Composed by Mr. Handel.[24] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the 26th Day of February, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[25] |
Feb 28
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[Earl of Egmont’s Diary, Thursday 28 February 1733-4] I returned home to dinner, and in the evening went to the ballad opera called Achilles at Covent Garden playhouse.[26] |
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[Mrs. Pendarves to Mrs. Ann Granville, 2 March 1733-4] [...] The day for the royal nuptials is not yet named; the Prince is to be in town on Monday next.[27] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 2d Day of March, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[28] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the 5th Day of March, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[29] |
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His Highness the Prince of Orange will be at the Opera of Ariadne in the Hay-Market this Night.[30] |
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Last Night their Majesties, the Prince of Wales, and the three eldest Princesses, were at the King’s Theatre in the Hay-Market, and saw the Opera, called Ariadne; as was also his Highness the Prince of Orange.[31] |
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Last Night their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family, went to the Opera-house in the Haymarket, and saw an Opera call’d Ariadne, at which his Serene Highness the Prince of Orange was present, and was received by the Audience, which was very great of Persons of the first Distinction, with all the Marks of Joy and Affection that could be expressed, on Account of his Highness having recovered his Health, and his Arrival in Town.[32] |
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[Earl of Egmont’s Diary, Friday 8 March 1733-4] In the evening I had my concert, and a great deal of company came to hear it, viz. Earl of Shaftesbury, Sir Thomas Hanmer, Sir Charles Bunbury, Sir John Evelyn, Sir Philip Parker Long, Mr. Man, Mr. Hill, Mr. Southwell and his brother, Dr. Ven, Captain Whorwood, Mr. Le Grand, Lord Carpenter, Mr. Temple, Count de la Lecque, Lady Leusham and her daughter, Lady Evelyn and her daughter, sister Percival, Mrs. Donellan, Mrs. Minshull, my niece Parker, cousin le Grand and her daughter, Lady Carpenter, daughter Hanmer, Mrs. Southwell. The performers were: On the violoncello, Mr. Dobson; Signor Caprara, the great bass; on the fiddle, Mr. Needler, Mellan, Thomas Withrington, brother Percival, son Hanmer; Sambroke, tenor fiddle; on the hautbois, Baron Bothmar and another; on the harpsichord, Signor Aragoni, Mr. Bagnal; singers, daughter Hanmer, daughter Helena, Signora Bertholdi, Mr. Mathies.[33] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 9th Day of March, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[34] |
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The Prince of Orange will be at the Opera of Ariadne, in the Hay-Market, this Night; having given his Highness the greatest Satisfaction there on Tuesday last.[35] |
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We hear, amongst other publick Diversions that are prepared for the Solemnity of the approaching Nuptials, there is to be perform’d at the Opera House in the Hay-Market, on Wednesday next, a Serenata, call’d, Parnasso in Festa. The Fable is, Apollo and the Muses celebrating the Marriage of Thetis and Peleus. There is one standing Scene which is Mount Parnassus, on which sit Apollo and the Muses, assisted with other proper Characters, emblematically dress’d, the whole Appearance being extreamly magnificent. The Musick is no less entertaining, being contrived with so great a Variety, that all Sorts of Musick are properly introduc’d in single Songs, Duetto’s, &c. intermix’d with Chorus’s, somewhat in the Style of Oratorio’s. People have been waiting with Impatience for this Piece, the celebrated Mr. Handel having exerted his utmost Skill in it.[36] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the 12th Day of March, will be perform’d a new Opera, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[37] |
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Last Night their Majesties and the three eldest Princesses were at the King’s Theatre in the Hay-Market, and saw the Opera of Ariadne; as was also his Highness the Prince of Orange.[38] |
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[Earl of Egmont’s Diary, Tuesday 12 March 1733-4] After dinner I went to the Oratorio at Lincoln’s Inn playhouse, composed by Porpora and entitled “David and Bathsheba.”[39] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Wednesday, being
the 13th Day of March, will
be perform’d PARNASSO in FESTA: OR, APOLLO and the MUSES celebrating the Nuptials of THETIS and PELEUS. A SERENATA. Being an Essay of several different Sorts
of Harmony. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without
Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office
in the Hay-Market at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND. No Persons whatever to be admitted behind
the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[40] |
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The same Evening [yesterday] their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, with the rest of the Royal Family, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Orange, went to the Theatre in the Hay-Market, and saw a Serenata called Parnasso in Festa, or Apollo and the Muses celebrating the Nuptials of Thetis and Peleus.[41] |
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On Wednesday Night Mr. Handell’s new Serenata, in Honour of the Princess Royal’s Nuptials with the Prince of Orange, was performed before their Majesties, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Orange, and all the Royal Family, and was received with the greatest Applause; the Piece containing the most exquisite Harmony ever furnished from the Stage, and the Disposition of the Performers being contrived in a very grand and maginificent Manner.[42] |
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The nuptials of her royal highness the princess royal with the prince of Orange, was perform’d on thursday last [...] and after the organ had play’d some time, his highness the prince of Orange led the princess royal to the rails of the altar, and kneel’d down, and then the lord bishop of London perform’d the service; after which the bride and bridegroom arose, and retir’d to their places, whilst a fine anthem, compos’d by Mr. Handell, was perform’d by a great number of voices and instruments.[43] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being
the 16th Day of March, will
be perform’d PARNASSO in FESTA: OR, APOLLO and the MUSES celebrating the Nuptials of THETIS and PELEUS. A SERENATA. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without
Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office
in the Hay-Market at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND. No Persons whatever to be admitted behind
the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[44] |
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We are inform’d that their Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Orange will certainly be at the Serenata this Night, at the Opera House in the Hay-market.[45] |
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The same Evening [Saturday] their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Duke, the Prince and Princess of Orange, and the Princesses Amelia and Caroline, went to the Opera-house in the Hay-Market, and saw a Serenata, called Parnasso in Festa.[46] |
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When the Dean had finished the Service in the Liturgy, the married Couple rose and retired back to their Stools upon the Haut pas, where they remained while the Anthem was sung.[47] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the
19th Day of March, will
be perform’d PARNASSO in FESTA: OR, APOLLO and the MUSES celebrating the Nuptials of THETIS and PELEUS. A SERENATA. Pit and Boxes are put together, and Seats made to accommodate Persons upon the
Stage, but none will be admitted without Tickets,
which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the
Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. To begin at Six o’Clock. [line] N. P. [sic]. Any Person
that could not be admitted last Saturday Night
with their Tickets, may, on sending this Day to the Office, have
them exchang[e]d for others this Night, or their Money return’d.[48] |
Mar 20, Gloster
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[Mrs. Ann Granville to Mrs. Pendarves, 20 March, 1734] The Hibernian artist, Mr. Murphy, was very unlucky, for the rejoicings for the wedding prevented his concert, but ’tis no matter, for he is the most impertinent fellow that ever was; is there any music in his harp or no? Oh the Serenata! could I have heard it, or the Anthem Mr. Handel composed for the Princess! ’tis a horrid thing to be removed from all harmony. [...][49] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being
the 23d Day of March, will
be perform’d PARNASSO in FESTA: OR, APOLLO and the MUSES celebrating the Nuptials of THETIS and PELEUS. A SERENATA. Pit and Boxes are put together, and Seats made to accommodate
Persons upon the Stage, but none will be admitted without Tickets, which
will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the
Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. To begin at Six o’Clock.[50] |
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[Earl of Egmont’s Diary, Saturday 23 March 1733-4] [...] I then went to Court, where [68] the King spoke considerably to me. After dinner I went to the Opera House in the Haymarket to hear Hendel’s Serenata composed in honour of the marriage, called “Apollo and Daphnis.” The Royal family was all there, the Prince of Wales excepted.[51] |
Mar 26
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[Edward Holdsworth in Otterbourne [sic] to Charles Jennens] […] We are told here that the Parlnt. will rise before Easter; if so, the town will soon be very thin, and I fear your friend will be a Prodigious sufferer. […][52] |
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We hear that all the Royal Family will be at the Opera House in the Hay-Market To-morrow Night, to see the Opera of Arbaces, which is to be perform’d for the Benefit of Signora Durastanti.[53] |
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[Mrs. Pendarves to Mrs. Ann Granville, 28 March 1734] I dined with him [her brother Bernard] at Sir John Stanley’s, whose spirits were so raised by the return of his companion that he would him with the opera that he might hear Caristini sing: I went with Lady Chesterfield in her box. She asked me if you were in town with me, and I, alas! answered no. ’Twas Arbaces, an opera of Vinci’s, pretty enough, but not to compare to Handel’s compositions. [... 447 ... 449 ...] Yesterday I dined at Mrs. Percival’s, and in the afternoon Phil and I went to the oratorio at Lincoln’s Inn, composed by Porpora, an [450] Italian, famous for church music, who is now in England: it is a fine solemn piece of music, but I confess I think the subject too solemn for a theatre. To have words of piety made use of only to introduce good music, is reversing what it ought to be, and most of the people that hear the oratorio make no reflection on the meaning of the words, though God is addressed in the most solemn manner; some of the choruses and recitative are extremely fine and touching, but they say it is not equal to Mr. Handel’s oratorio of Esther or Deborah.[54] |
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On Saturday in the Evening their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Prince and Princess of Orange, went to the Opera-house in the Hay-market, and saw an Opera call’d Arbaces.[55] |
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This is to give Notice, That
the Governour of the Corporation of the Royal Academy of Musick hath appointed a General Court of the said Academy to be
held on Thursday next, the 4th of April, at Eleven of
the Clock in the Morning, at Mr. Heidegger’s Rooms in the Hay-market; where the several Subscribers to the said Academy are desired to be present.[56] |
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By His Majesty’s Command. AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday being the
2d Day of April, will
be reviv’d, DEBORAH.
An ORATORIO: OR, SACRED DRAMA in English. Composed by Mr. HANDEL. And to be perform’d by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. The House to be fitted up and illuminated in a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without
Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in
the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. To begin at Six o’Clock.[57] |
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The same Evening [2 April] the Prince and Princess of Orange, and her Royal Highness the Princess Caroline, went to the King’s Theatre in the Hay Market, and saw an Oratorio, call’d, Deborah.[58] |
Apr 5
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[Earl of Egmont’s Diary, Friday 5 April 1734] In the evening I had my last concert for the winter, when Dr. Couraye, who came to it, told me that he knew her Majesty had busied herself in his favour; for a friend of his having asked the Duke of Chandos to subscribe, the Duke replied the Queen had sent him three subscriptions and he had desired two more. The performers at the concert were Needler, Mellan, Sambroke, my son Hanmer, my brother Percival, Captain Cornwall, Verner, on the fiddle; Washington, Payn on the violoncello; the great basse, Botmar; Verner on the hautbois; Aragoni, Bagnal on the harpsichord. Aragoni, Mrs. Bertholdi, Mr. Matheis and my two daughters singers. The company present were as follows: Duke of Portland, Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Guernsey, Sir Thomas Hanmer, Sir Philip Parker Long, Sir Jo. Evelyn, Sir Roger Mostyn, Ned Southwell [78] and his brother, Mr. Kelsal, Edward Walpole, Edmond Clark, Colonel Schutz, Cousin Scot, Lady Ailsford, Lady Pontefract, Lady Mary and Lady H. Cholmondeley, Lady Hanmer, Lady Evelyn, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Cornwallis, Mrs. Molineux, Mrs. Minshull, Sister Percival, Mrs. Donellan, Mrs. Le Grand and daughter, Mrs. Scot.[59] |
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MUSICK. This Day is publish’d, Price 1 s. [...] Printed for John Walsh, Musick-Printer and Instrument- maker to his Majesty, at the Harp and Hautboy in Catherine-street in the Strand. Where may be had, just publish’d, [...] II. A second Collection of Favourite Songs in the Opera call’d Ariadne. To which is prefix’d, the Overture in Score. Composed by Mr. Handel. N. B. The First Collection, and the Favourite Songs in Arbaces and Ariadne, by Sig. Porpora, may be had where these are sold, and Variety of curious Pieces for the Harpsichord; also new Concerto’s, Sonata’s and Solo’s for all Instruments in use.[60] |
Apr 10
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[Edward Holdsworth at St John’s College [Oxford] to Charles Jennens] Your old Master Hecht died few days ago, and has left 120£ to our College towards a new Organ, and has made his cousin Tompson Organist of Salisbury his Execr. I have been sollicited very earnestly to use my interest with the President for one who stands to succeed him, and had this complement pass’d upon me with a very grave countenance, That as I have been very often in Italy, and must be a good judge of Musick, The President wou’d certainly be entirly influenc’d by my recommendation.[61] |
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Last Night his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
accompanied by several Persons of
Distinction, went to the Theatre Royal in Lincoln’s
Inn Fields, and saw a new Oratorio, or
sacred Drama, called David, for the Benefit of Mrs. Celestina Hempson.[62] |
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By Subscription, For the Benefit of Mrs. RAFFA, On Wednesday the first of May, at the Great Room in Crow-street, will be perform’d, the Masque of ACIS and GALATEA, compos’d by Mr. Handell for his Grace the Duke of Chandois, with all the Chorus’s, as it was perform’d in the Opera-house in London. Each Subscriber to pay one Guinea for four Tickets, and to have two printed Books of the Words of the Entertainment. Subscriptions will be taken at Mr. Gunan’s in Anglesea-street. [27-30 April:] Single Tickets, Three Half Crowns, British.[63] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, This Day, being Tuesday, the 16th Day of April, will be reviv’d the last new Opera, call’d, ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the SCENES. To begin at Six o’Clock.[64] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 20th Day of April, will be reviv’d the last new Opera, call’d, ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Six o’Clock.[65] |
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[Diary of Sarah Cowper, 20 April 1734] I went to the Opera of Ariadne [i.e. Arianna], Cuzzoni singing for the first time since her arrival …. as far as I have any judgment in musick, pronounce her beyond comparison the best singer I ever heard … if anything on earth resembles [her voice] tis the voice of the Skylark at a distance in the air) her manner being adapted to Hendel’s musick, adds to that great Composer’s original intention, she ornaments her songs w[i]t[h] little Graces so judiciously placed that he thanks her for them, but she has no Flights, like the other Singers who lose the time and change the Composition … I once heard her sing a song tho’ in the midst of hisses & cat calls & make her Cadence in [201] perfect tune and time: and her Pathetick Songs are so touching that I have seen sev[era]l instances of persons betrayed into tears who went to hear her determined not to like her.[66] |
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[Earl of Egmont’s Diary, Tuesday 23 April 1734] [...] went at night to the opera Ariadne.[67] |
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[Mrs. Pendarves to Mrs. Ann Granville, 27 April 1734] The piece of news talked of is Lady Fanny Pierpoint’s walking off with Mr. Meadows at last. I was at the opera [462] at Lincoln’s-Inn last Tuesday, she was there (she was of age the day before), and Mr. Meadows sat at some distance from her in the box before me: at the end of the first act she went out under pretence of being sick. A young lady, (Miss Wortley,) daughter to Lady Mary, went out with her, and returned in a quarter of an hour. Mr. Meadows staid some time, and then marched off. Most people guessed what they were about but dull I, who minded the music, made no reflection on what past, but next day it was published. I own I think she was in the right to marry him, if she could not live without a husband, for nobody else would have cared for her notwithstanding her twenty thousand pounds. [...] Last Tuesday I went to hear Cuzzoni sing: she sings as well as ever, but nothing now pleases me so well as Caristini. Wednesday I was at the play [463] with Lady Weymouth, not much entertained — “The Mistakes,” a silly play of Sir John Vanburgh’s. Thursday at Lincoln’s-Inn opera again. Yesterday morning at the rehearsal of a most delightful opera at Mr. Handel’s called Sosarme, which is acted to-night, and I doubt as I am to go out of town next week, I shall not be able to resist the temptation of it. All the diversions I have had this week have cost me nothing but thanks. [...][68] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday being, the 7th Day of May, will be reviv’d a Serenata, call’d, ACIS and GALATEA. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[69] |
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[Joseph Smith to the Earl of Essex] Venice 14 may 1734. The Letter I did my Self the Honour to write to your Lordp the last Post, carried the news of a good End being putt to the Treaty for Farinelli, and much to his mind; and by the Enclosed he returns your Lordp his Thanks for it, owning is as a good altogether proceeding from your Generous Protection. I Send your Lordp a Copy of the writing I Gave him, he’s att Vicenza, where the Opera begins thins night, & lasts till the 12 of this month; ’tis thought there will be much Company, and may of our Nation. [...][70] |
May 15
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[Edward Holdsworth at ‘Mr Horton’s Apothecary in Bath’ to Charles Jennens] I am sorry Senesino has given you reason to be angry with him. I wish he may not provoke you to turn him out of your parlour. […][71] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 18th Day of May, will be perform’d, An Opera, call’d, PASTOR FIDO. Composed by Mr. HANDELL. Intermixed with Chorus’s. The Scenery after a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[72] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the 21st Day of May, will be perform’d, An Opera, call’d, PASTOR FIDO. Composed by Mr. HANDELL. Intermixed with Chorus’s. The Scenery after a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[73] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 25th Day of May, will be perform’d, An Opera, call’d, PASTOR FIDO. Composed by Mr. HANDELL. Intermixed with Chorus’s. The Scenery after a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[74] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the 28th Day of May, will be perform’d, An Opera, call’d, PASTOR FIDO. Composed by Mr. HANDELL. Intermixed with Chorus’s. The Scenery after a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock. Being the last Time of performing till after the Holidays.[75] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the 4th Day of June, will be perform’d, An Opera, call’d, PASTOR FIDO. Composed by Mr. HANDELL. Intermixed with Chorus’s. The Scenery after a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock. Being the last Time of performing till after the Holidays.[76] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 8th Day of June, will be perform’d, An Opera, call’d, PASTOR FIDO. Composed by Mr. HANDELL. Intermixed with Chorus’s. The Scenery after a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[77] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the 11th Day of June, will be perform’d, An Opera, call’d, PASTOR FIDO. Composed by Mr. HANDELL. Intermixed with Chorus’s. The Scenery after a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[78] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the 18th Day of June, will be perform’d, An Opera, call’d, PASTOR FIDO. Composed by Mr. HANDELL. Intermixed with Chorus’s. The Scenery after a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[79] |
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[Lord Chamberlain’s Records] These are &c. to Mr: Christop[her] Smith the sum of One hundred and Four Pounds Eight Shillings and Six pence for extraordinary performers of Musick & for Copys of the Anthem for the Marriage of Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal and the Prince of Orange, as appears by the annext Bill, Also to pay him the sum of Fourteen Pounds and Five Pence for Office Fees. Amounting in all to the sum of One hundred and Eighteen pounds Eight Shillings and Eleven pence. And &c. Given &c. this 20[th] Day of June 1734, in the Eighth Year of His Majesty’s Reign. To the L[or]d Hobart &c. Grafton Marginal entry: Mr: Smith for Extr[aordinar]y Performers of Musick for the Marriage of the Princess Roy[a]l and the Prince of Orange. s d £118:8:11 These are &c. to Dr Green Organist to His Majesty the sum of Twelve pounds for an Anthem prepared for the Marriage of Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal and the Prince of Orange as appears in the annext Bill, Also to pay him the sum of One Pounds Twelve Shillings and three pence in Office Fees, Amounting in all to the sum of Thirteen Pounds Twelve Shillings and three pence And &c. given this 20th Day of June 1734. in the Eighth Year of His Majesty’s Reign. To the Lord Hobart &c. Grafton Marginal entry: Dr Green for an Anthem prepared for the Marriage of the Princess Roy[a]l s d £13:12:3 These are &c. to Mr: Bernard Gates Tuner of the Organs &c. to His Majesty, the sum of Seven Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Six Pence for attending at the French Chapel to give Orders for fixing the Organs for the Marriage of the Princess Royal with the [612] Prince of Orange, as appears in the annext Bill, And &c. Given &c. this 20th Day of June 1734. In the Eighth Year of His Majesty’s Reign. To the L[or]d Hobart &c. Grafton Marginal entry: Mr. Bernard Gates Tuner of the Organs for attending to give Orders to fix the Organs at the French Chapel for the Marriage £7:17:6 These are &c. to Mr: John Knoppel Organ-maker the sum of Thirty two Pounds for setting up the Organs in the French Chapel at St: James’s for the Marriage of the Princess Royal with the Prince of Orange, Also to pay him the sum of Four Pounds six Shillings for Office Fees, Amounting in all to the sum of Thirty Six Pounds Six Shillings. And &c. Given &c. this 20th: Day of June 1734. In the Eighth year of his Majesty’s Reign. To the L[or]d Hobart &c. Grafton Marginal entry: Mr: Jno: Knoppell for setting up the Organs in the French Chapel for the Marriage of the Princess Royal s £36.6.–[80] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 22d Day of June, will be perform’d, An Opera, call’d, PASTOR FIDO. Composed by Mr. HANDELL. Intermixed with Chorus’s. The Scenery after a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[81] |
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MUSICK This Day is Published, [...] Printed for and Sold by John Walsh, at the Harp and Hoboy in Catherine-street in the Strand. Where may be had, just Published, Six Overtures for Violins, &c. in seven Parts, as they are performed at the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket in the Opera’s of Ariadne, Sosarmes, Orlando, AEtius, Porus, Esther. Compos’d by Mr. Handel, fifth Collection. —— N. B[.] The same Overtures are also curiously set for the Harpsicord. The most celebrated Opera Aires in Ariadne, &c by Mr. Handel, curiously fitted for a German Flute and Bass, Vol. II. Part the Fifth, price 3 s. Also seven Collections of Opera Aires, Vol[.] I. and four Collections of Opera Aires, Vol. II which contain the most favourite Aires out of all Mr. Handel’s Opera’s for a German Flute, Violin and Harpsicord.[82] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Tuesday, being the 25th Day of June, will be perform’d, An Opera, call’d, PASTOR FIDO. Composed by Mr. HANDELL. Intermixed with Chorus’s. The Scenery after a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[83] |
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AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 29th Day of June, will be perform’d, An Opera, call’d, PASTOR FIDO. Composed by Mr. HANDELL. Intermixed with Chorus’s. The Scenery after a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock. Being the last Time of performing.[84] |
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[Mrs. Pendarves to Mrs. Ann Granville, 30 June 1734] To-night is the last night of the opera, and I go, and to-morrow to Court. [...][85] |
Jun 29
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[Edward Holdsworth in London to Charles Jennens, 1 July] […] Mr Herbert was on Saturday night [29 June] at ye Haymarket to hear Pastor fido. ’twas expected that that wou’d be the last time of acting, but at the request of the Audience ’twill be continued 2 nights more. Mr Herbert tells me yt there were 200 at least in ye Pit and boxes, and the Gallery full. But as great a lover as I am of Musick I cou’d not make one, not being able to bear a crowd this weather. […][86] |
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By COMMAND, AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Wednesday, being the 3d Day of July, will be perform’d, An Opera, call’d, PASTOR FIDO. Composed by Mr. HANDELL. Intermixed with Chorus’s. The Scenery after a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[87] |
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By COMMAND, AT the KING’s THEATRE in the HAY-MARKET, this present Saturday, being the 6th Day of July, will be perform’d, An Opera, call’d, PASTOR FIDO. Composed by Mr. HANDELL. Intermixed with Chorus’s. The Scenery after a particular Manner. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered This Day, at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. GALLERY FIVE SHILLINGS. By His MAJESTY’s COMMAND, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o’Clock.[88] |
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[Thomas Bowen to the Earl of Essex] [“8th July 1734”] [...] The Weather begins to grow hott, at least; Yet the Operas continue, thô they say Hendell has lost 3000£, and Senesino [115r] 1500£, by the Season. [...][89] |
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We hear that the Town will be entertain’d next Season with an Opera at the Hay-market, and with another under the Direction of Mr. Handel (twice a Week) at the new Theatre in Covent-Garden, Plays being to be acted only four Days a Week in the latter Theatre. The former will consist of Signor Senoseni, Signora Cuzzoni, Signora Celesti, Signora Bertolli, and Signora [sic] Montagnana, with the Addition of the famous Signor Farinelli, who is now on the Road from Italy, and is expected to land shortly at Dover, from whence he will repair to the Right Hon. the Earl Cowper’s Seat in Kent, in order to pass some Time with his Lordship. The Opera under the Direction of Mr. Handel will be compos’d of Signor Carestini, Signora Strada, the Signore Negre, and some celebrated Voices who have been sent for over from Italy. We hear also that Mademoiselle Salle is to dance in the said Opera at Covent-Garden Theatre. And that A Company of Comedians from Paris have taken the little Playhouse in the Hay-market, in order to act French Comedies there.[90] |
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[Brinley Skinner to the Earl of Essex] [“Florence the 4th. September / 1734.”] [...] Farinello left us some days ago, and before he went desired of me to direct a Trunk of his to be shipt from Leghorne, about wch. the duke of Leeds also spoke to me, & Farinello told me he would ask of Your Excellency forgiveness if I should send him a letter of notice that it was done under Your address, & I humbly beg leave to add my most hearty Service to him.[91] |
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[Joseph Smith to the Earl of Essex] [“Venice 18 Sepr 1734.”] [...] I Suppose Farinello is by this time gone from turin. his Mas- ters were full of Fears he would not come at last, ’till my Letters assur’d them to the Contrary.[92] |
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We hear that the fam[o]us Mrs. Strada deliver’d the Petition to his Majesty in Behalf of Anthony Langloge, alias Porta, who was under Sentence of Death, and that his Majesty was graciously pleased to grant him a Reprieve.[93] |
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On Thursday last the famous Signor Farinelli was introduc’d to their Majesties at Kensington by the Right Hon. the Earl Cowper; he is just arriv’d from Rome, is the principal Chorister in the Pope’s Chapel, and is allow’d by all Judges to be the first Voice in the World: The Court receiv’d him with particular Marks of Esteem, and he had the Honour to sing before their Majesties, and the rest of the Royal Family, in the Queen’s Anti-chamber, with vast Applause. He is engag’d for a large Sum of Money to sing during the Winter, at the Opera’s in the Hay-Market, the Noblemen Subscribers having taken that House for the ensuing Season; and Mr. Handel has agreed with Mr. Rich, to perform Opera’s two Days in a Week at Covent-Garden Theatre for the ensuing Season.[94] |
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[Mrs. Pendarves to Mrs. Ann Granville, 15 October 1734] On Friday next I shall have a little musical party — Strada to sing and one to accompany her, and young Gleg for the fiddle, who plays very well; the audience are to be the Percivals, Sr John, Bunny, Lady Mary Coley, and Mr. Hamilton — a fine batchelor man her brother, who is just such a sober musical thing as my brother.[95] |
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[The Duchess of Portland to Miss Collingwood, 20 October 1734] [...] Roses and Nettles were to know nothing of my making a purchase till it was quite over, for what reason I know not, but it was decreed so by the Higher Powers, so when the flowers were come together and tyed up in a nosegay, advice was sent to the Roses and Nettles, and as you know the quality of that weed, it would not be acceptable with Sweet William, but however there was a fine pacific congratulatory oration from the Nettle, which without doubt came from the heart of that root, which was taken very well but their flourishing so much at Florence, and as I believe the seed beginning to spread, inflamed the wrath of Mr. Ford so much, that he would not believe it was the pleasure of hearing Farinelli sing which was their pretence, but the other which they could not part from. [...][96] |
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Their Majesties come in the Evening to the Opera, in the Hay-Market, and sup at St. James’s.[97] |
Oct 30
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[Thomas Bowen to the Earl of Essex] [“30th. Octbr. 1734] [...] The Opera was opened, on last Saturday night, and Farinelli is allowed by every body to be the best performer who has yet appeared from Italy, he is at the Haymarket, and to have 1500£ & a Benefit for 50 nights P[er]formances. [...][98] |
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We hear that his Majesty, who has already been graciously pleas’d to give his 1000 l. Subscription to the Opera’s in the Haymarket, has likewise order’d 500 l. to be given as his Subscription to Mr. Handell, who is allow’d by all good Judges to be the finest Composer of Musick in the whole World. And That Mr. Handell has got an extreme fine English Voice, who will speedily sing at the Theatre in Covent- Garden, and who never sung on any Stage. We hear that both Opera’s (occasion’d by their dividing) are at a vast Expence to entertain the Nobility and Gentry for the ensuing Season; the Opera House in the Haymarket are reckon’d to stand at near 12000 l. and Mr. Handell at near 9000 l. for the Season. It is universally allow’d, that if Mr. Handell was to compose and perform, and Signor Farinelli to sing, the whole World could not match them; and the Hearers must be ravish’d with Delight.[99] |
Nov 2
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The Prince of Wales and the Princess Amelia were at the Opera in the Hay-Market on Saturday Night. There was a numerous Audience to hear Signor Farinelli sing.[100] |
Nov 4
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We are informed, that when Mr. Handel waited on their Majesties with his New Opera of ARISDANTE, his Majesty express’d great Satisfaction with the Composition, and was graciously pleased to Subscribe 1000 l. towards carrying on the Operas this Season at Covent-Garden.[101] |
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Mr. Handel opens Tomorrow, at Covent-Garden Theatre, with the Opera of Pastor Fido, preceded by a new Dramatic Entertainment of Musick; and we hear there was a Rehearsal this Day at Twelve o’Clock.[102] |
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COVENT-GARDEN. By his MAJESTY’s Command. AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, this present Saturday, being the Ninth of November, will be perform’d PASTOR FIDO, An OPERA; With several Additions; Intermix’d with Chorus’s. Which will be preceded by a new Dramatic Entertainment (in Musick) call’d, TERPSICORE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 4 s. Upper Gallery 2 s. 6 d. By his MAJESTY’s Command, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Silver Tickets will be
delivered to the Subscribers (at the Office in the Theatre) this Day, from Ten till Two.[103] |
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[The Duchess of Portland to Miss Collingwood, 10 November 1734] [...] you say you don’t understand musick, but if you remember you did Dutch performances. I believe I shall come up to hear Farinelli, but don’t say anything of it; [...] I want some account of Roses and Nettles, I hear [517] Roses’s birthday was observed with great pomp and splendour; there was above forty gentlemen that had an entertainment, and Farinelli made a magnificent suit of clothes and charmed the company with his voice as Orpheus did, (and so kept them from drinking,) though this is only my supposition. [...][104] |
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[Juliana, Dowager Duchess of Leeds to Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds] Londn Nove ye 12th [...] I must now give yu an account of the agreeable Farinelli, who may say some thing Like Ceaser; He only sung and conquer’d, for I belive there is not ten people in Londn but wl say the same as you and I think off him, Caristine [223v] looks extremely silly & Handell will be ruined I belive, for the[y] have had two operas, & both so very Emty yt ye folks ware all starved, I went of a wednesday wn there is no opera at ye Hay markett, out of curiosity, & really it was soe very tirible, it could not be borne & yett the[y] have done all ye can to to [sic] make it fill, for Sally has fine dances between ye acts, but twill not do, there is about five or six yt is still friends to Caristine, but I fancy they will very soon give it up, or they will lett very cool to hear him, I quarill wth these folks Eternally, & tell them I wonder the are not asshamed to say so, if the[y] do think it, Mr Farinelli dined wth me ye other day & sung so delightfully yt He charmd my Ld & Lady Charlotte who yu know cou’d never bear Musick before, I heard to night he has gott a Little Cold, but I hope its not true tho [224r] its extreme Cold weather, we must pray for his Life for shoud he dye a dieu o operas, for nothing can be born after him, even now Cozona appears only Like a Ballad singer Hes so civill & well bred too yt it makes one like him more, he askd me if I had heard from yu Lately, & often says how much hes obliged to yu, I dont know a word of news for nothing but Farinelli is talkd off, I think him handsome too, [...][105] |
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COVENT-GARDEN. By his MAJESTY’s Command. AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, this Day being Wednesday, the 13th of November, will be perform’d PASTOR FIDO, An OPERA; With several Additions; Intermix’d with Chorus’s. Which will be preceded by a new Dramatic Entertainment (in Musick) call’d, TERPSICORE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 4 s. Upper Gallery 2 s. 6 d. By his MAJESTY’s Command, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Silver Tickets will be
delivered to the Subscribers (at the Office in the Theatre) this Day, from Ten till Two.[106] |
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[Hamburger Relations-Couriers, 26 November 1734] Denen Liebhabern Musicalischer Schauspiele wird hiemit zu dienstlicher Nachricht vermeldet, daß nächstkünfftigen Montag, den 29. Nov., auf dem hiesigen Schauplatze eine neue Opera, Rodelinda betitult, zum erstenmahl aufgeführet werden soll: Sie ist von der Composition des so berühmten Hrn. Hendell, und sonst an Intriguen und übriger Beschaffenheit ein so fürtreffliches Stück, daß solche auch den allerschönsten jemahls präsentirten, mit Recht den Wettstreit anbieten kan.[107] |
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COVENT-GARDEN. By his MAJESTY’s Command. AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, this present Saturday, being the 16th of November, will be perform’d PASTOR FIDO, An OPERA; With several Additions; Intermix’d with Chorus’s. Which will be preceded by a new Dramatic Entertainment (in Musick) call’d, TERPSICORE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 4 s. Upper Gallery 2 s. 6 d. By his MAJESTY’s Command, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes.[108] |
Nov 20
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[Edward Holdsworth to Charles Jennens] Kingsey near Tame Nov. 20. 1734 [...] Your friend Wat enquir’d much after you when I was at Oxford, and longs to know your opinion of Farinelli. I hope he performs at least so well as to give you [1v] some satisfaction tho’ in a bad house, and yt you can easily believe He wou’d delight you very much was he under the direction of the Prodigious. Mr Herbert went for London 2 days before I came hither. If he stays long, perhaps I may make a trip thither for a few days; more I assure you to have the pleasure of seeing you than to hear Farinelli. [...][109] |
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COVENT-GARDEN. By his MAJESTY’s Command. AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, This present Wednesday being the 20th of November, will be perform’d PASTOR FIDO, An OPERA; With several Additions; Intermix’d with Chorus’s. Which will be preceded by a new Dramatic Entertainment (in Musick) call’d, TERPSICORE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 4 s. Upper Gallery 2 s. 6 d. By his MAJESTY’s Command, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes.[110] |
Nov 20
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[Edward Holdsworth in Kingsey near Tame to Charles Jennens] Your friend Wat enquir’d much
after you when I was at Oxford, and longs to know your opinion of Farinelli.
I hope he performs at least so well as to give you [1v] some
satisfaction tho’ in a bad house, and yt you can easily believe He
wou’d delight you very much was he under the direction of the Prodigious. Mr Herbert went for London 2 days before I came hither. If he stays long, perhaps I may make a trip thither for a few days; more I assure you to have the pleasure of seeing you than to hear Farinelli.[111] |
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[Lady Elizabeth to the Countess of Northampton] 1734, Nov. 21st. [...] Sr John Rushout who is gone out of town will be able to tell your Ladyp much more than I can, as also about Farinelli he having much more judgment in Musick. All I can say is I think he is charming. A Scholar of Mr Gates’s, Beard, (who left the Chappell last Easter) shines in the Opera of Covent Garden & Mr Hendell [...] is so full of his Praises that he says he [243] will surprise the Town with his performances before the Winter is over [...][112] |
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COVENT-GARDEN. By his MAJESTY’s Command. AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, this present Saturday being the 23d of November, will be perform’d PASTOR FIDO, An OPERA; With several Additions; Intermix’d with Chorus’s. Which will be preceded by a new Dramatic Entertainment (in Musick) call’d, TERPSICORE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day at the Office in Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 4 s. Upper Gallery 2 s. 6 d. By his MAJESTY’s Command, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes.[113] |
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COVENT-GARDEN. By his MAJESTY’s Command. AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday being the 27th of November, will be perform’d an OPERA, call’d, ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver’d To-morrow [!] at the Office in Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 4 s. Upper Gallery 2 s. 6 d. By his MAJESTY’s Command, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes.[114] |
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COVENT-GARDEN. By his MAJESTY’s Command. AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, this present Saturday being the 30th of November, will be perform’d an OPERA, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 4 s. Upper Gallery 2 s. 6 d. By his MAJESTY’s Command, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes.[115] |
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[Farinelli to Sicinio Pepoli] da Londra, 30.11.1734 [...] Cantando a Corte sempre vi fu la presenza del Re e Regina ed il maestro di cappella era la Principessa d’Oranges: all’improviso mi furono tirate arie d’Endel; con gran franchezza mi posi ad eseguir quelle e grazie al Cielo ne sortii con tutta la gloria e tal cosa mi fa giungere a questa presente sorte.[116] |
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[The Duchess of Portland to Miss Collingwood, 1 December 1734] [...] I have deferred so long coming to hear Farinelli that I can’t possibly come this month, and then it will be so short a time that it will not be worth while. [...][117] |
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COVENT-GARDEN. By his MAJESTY’s Command. AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday, being the 4th of December, will be perform’d an OPERA, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 4 s. Upper Gallery 2 s. 6 d. By his MAJESTY’s Command, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes.[118] |
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Last Thursday there was a Rehearsal of the Opera of Otho at the Theatre in the Hay-Market, before a numerous Audience of the first Quality.[119] |
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COVENT-GARDEN. By his MAJESTY’s Command. AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, this present Saturday being the 7th of December, will be perform’d an OPERA, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day, at the Office in Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 4 s. Upper Gallery 2 s. 6 d. By his MAJESTY’s Command, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes.[120] |
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MUSICK, This Day Published, Compos’d by Mr. HANDEL, I. A fourth Volume of APOLLO’s Feast: Or, the Harmony of the Opera Stage. Being a well chosen Collection of all the favourite and most celebrated Songs out of all his late Opera’s, with their Symphonies for Voices and Instruments. Engraven in a fair Character. —— N. B. In this and the 1st, 2d, and 3d Volumes are contain’d the most Favourite Songs out of all the Opera’s. Also by the same Author, II. Six Concerto’s for Violins, &c. in seven Parts. Opera terza. III. Six Sonata’s or Trio’s for two German Flutes or Violins, and a Bass. Opera secunda. IV. Twelve Solo’s for a Violin, German Flute or Harpsichord. Opera Prima. V. Thirty Overtures for Violins, &c. in seven Parts. —— N. B. The same Overtures are set for the Harpsichord. VI. The Water Musick and six French Horn Songs. In seven Parts. VII. The most celebrated Aires out of all the Opera’s fitted for a German Flute, Violin and Harpsicord. In 12 Collections. VIII[.] Nineteen Opera’s compleat. Printed in Score. IX. Esther, an Oratorio, and the Mask of Acis and Galatea. X. The Te Deum and Jubilate, as performed at St. Paul’s. XI. Two Books of celebrated Lessons for the Harpsicord. All compos’d by Mr. HANDEL, and Printed for John Walsh, at the Harp and Hoboy in Catherine- street in the Strand.[121] |
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COVENT-GARDEN. By his MAJESTY’s Command. AT the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday, being the 11th of December, will be perform’d an OPERA, call’d ARIADNE. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver’d this Day[,] at the Office in Covent-Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 4 s. Upper Gallery 2 s. 6 d. By his MAJESTY’s Command, No Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes.[122] |
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MUSICK. [...] Printed for John Walsh, at the Harp and Hoboy in Catherine- street in the Strand. Where may be had, just Published, [...] V. Two Collections of Favourite Songs in the Opera’s of Pastor Fido, and Ariadne with their Overtures in Score. By Mr. Handel.[123] |
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Last Night their Majesties were at the Theatre in Covent-Garden, and saw the Opera of Orestes.[124] |
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[Lady Penelope Compton to the Countess of Northampton] 1734, Dec. 19th. [...] I hear the town is but empty but can’t tell much of that yet for [I] have seen but few folks nor have not picked up any news, only I find every body seems charmed with Faranelli so that the Opera’s are constantly crouded. [...][125] |
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[unknown to (apparently) Catherine Collingwood] [Bullstrode Street, Dec. 27, 1734.] [...] I don’t pity Handell in the least, for I hope this mortification will make him a human creature; for I am sure before he was no better than a brute, when he could treat civilized people with so much brutality as I know he has done.[126] |
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Their Majesties were present at the Opera of Orestes, perform’d at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden on Saturday last.[127] |
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MUSICK. [...] Printed for John Walsh, at the Harp and Hoboy in Catherine- street in the Strand. Where may be had, just Published, [...] V. The Opera’s of Pastorfido [sic] and another for a single Flute, which compleat Twenty-four of Mr. Handel’s Opera’s for that Instrument.[128] |
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[“The Italian Padlock. / Imitated from Mr. de Voltaire.”] No more in (a) Lyric Shews you shine, Where all is Fiction, all Divine: Soft Seats! where Love the Scepter sways; Himself, Machines unnumber’d plays; Draws Tears for fair (b) Amelia’s Doom, Or lights fierce (c) Judith to her Tomb. For oh! subjected to your Spouse, And curst by Hymeneal Vows, To Church you only now repair, And Spousee dangles with You there.——[129] |
[1] The Daily Journal, no. 4047, Saturday 5 January 1734, [2].
[2] The St. James’s Evening Post, no. 2840, Saturday 5 – Tuesday 8 January 1734, [4].
[3] The Wentworth Papers, 1705-1739, ed. by James J. Cartwright (London: Wyman & Sons, 1883), 500.
[4] The Daily Journal, no. 4050, Wednesday 9 January 1734, [1].
[5] Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont: Diary of the First Earl of Egmont (Viscount Percival). Vol. II. 1734-1738 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1923), 6.
[6] The Grub-street Journal, no. 211, Thursday 10 January 1733[-4], [1-2]; repr., Deutsch, 342.
[7] British Library, Add. Ms. 27738, f. 103; repr. Carole Mia Taylor, “Italian Operagoing in London, 1700-1745” (Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, 1991), 205.
[8] The Daily Journal, no. 4065, Saturday 26 January 1734, [2]; partly repr., Deutsch, 342.
[9] The Daily Journal, no. 4067, Tuesday 29 January 1734, [2].
[10] Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont: Diary of the First Earl of Egmont (Viscount Percival). Vol. II. 1734-1738 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1923), 18.
[11] The Daily Journal, no. 4071, Saturday 2 February 1734, [1].
[12] The Daily Journal, no. 4073, Tuesday 5 February 1734, [2].
[13] The Daily Journal, no. 4073, Tuesday 5 February 1734, [2].
[14] The Daily Journal, no. 4077, Saturday 9 February 1734, [1].
[15] Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont: Diary of the First Earl of Egmont (Viscount Percival). Vol. II. 1734-1738 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1923), 25.
[16] The Daily Journal, no. 4079, Tuesday 12 February 1734, [2].
[17] Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont: Diary of the First Earl of Egmont (Viscount Percival). Vol. II. 1734-1738 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1923), 30.
[18] The Daily Journal, no. 4083, Saturday 16 February 1734, [2].
[19] Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont: Diary of the First Earl of Egmont (Viscount Percival). Vol. II. 1734-1738 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1923), 31.
[20] The Daily Journal, no. 4085, Tuesday 19 February 1734, [1].
[21] The Daily Courant, no. 5579, Wednesday 20 February 1733-4, [2].
[22]
Foundling Museum, Gerald Coke Handel Collection, accession no. 2702, “Jennens
Holdsworth Letters 1,” item 12, f. 1; repr. Amanda Babington and Ilias
Chrissochoidis, “Musical References in the Jennens–Holdsworth Correspondence
(1729–46),” Royal Musical Association
Research Chronicle, 45:1 (2014), 76–129: 92–93.
[23] The Daily Journal, no. 4089, Saturday 23 February 1734, [2].
[24] The London Evening-Post, no. 977, Thursday 21 – Saturday 23 February 1734, [3]; repr., Deutsch, 358.
[25] The Daily Journal, no. 4091, Tuesday 26 February 1734, [2].
[26] Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont: Diary of the First Earl of Egmont (Viscount Percival). Vol. II. 1734-1738 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1923), 39.
[27] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 1:432.
[28] The Daily Journal, no. 4095, Saturday 2 March 1734, [2].
[29] The Daily Journal, no. 4097, Tuesday 5 March 1734, [2].
[30] The Daily Journal, no. 4097, Tuesday 5 March 1734, [1]; repr., Chrissochoidis, 711.
[31] The Daily Journal, no. 4098, Wednesday 6 March 1734, [1]; repr., Chrissochoidis, 711.
[32] The Daily Courant, no. 5591, Wednesday 6 March 1733-4, [2]; repr., Chrissochoidis, 711.
[33] Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont: Diary of the First Earl of Egmont (Viscount Percival). Vol. II. 1734-1738 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1923), 50.
[34] The Daily Journal, no. 4101, Saturday 9 March 1734, [1].
[35] The Daily Journal, no. 4101, Saturday 9 March 1734, [1]; repr., Chrissochoidis, 711.
[36] The Daily Journal, no. 4102, Monday 11 March 1734, [1]; repr., Deutsch, 359.
[37] The Daily Journal, no. 4103, Tuesday 12 March 1734, [1].
[38] The Daily Journal, no. 4104, Wednesday 13 March 1734, [1]; repr., Chrissochoidis, 711.
[39] Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont: Diary of the First Earl of Egmont (Viscount Percival). Vol. II. 1734-1738 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1923), 54.
[40] The Daily Journal, no. 4104, Wednesday 13 March 1734, [1].
[41] The Daily Courant, no. 5598, Thursday 14 March 1733-4, [2]; repr., Deutsch, 360.
[42] The London Journal, no. 768, Saturday 16 March 1733-4, [2]; repr. (from the Bee), Deutsch, 360-61.
[43] The Grub-street Journal, no. 221, Thursday 21 March 1734, [2]; repr., Deutsch, 361.
[44] The Daily Journal, no. 4107, Saturday 16 March 1734, [1].
[45] The Daily Journal, no. 4107, Saturday 16 March 1734, [1]; repr., Chrissochoidis, 712.
[46] The Daily Courant, no. 5601, Monday 18 March 1733-4, [2]; repr., Chrissochoidis, 712.
[47] The Daily Journal, no. 4108, Monday 18 March 1734, [1]; The Daily Courant, no. 5601, Monday 18 March 1734, [2]; repr., The London Journal, no. 769, Saturday 23 March 1733-4, [3]; repr., Chrissochoidis, 712.
[48] The Daily Journal, no. 4109, Tuesday 19 March 1734, [1].
[49] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 1:444.
[50] The Daily Journal, no. 4113, Saturday 23 March 1734, [2].
[51] Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont: Diary of the First Earl of Egmont (Viscount Percival). Vol. II. 1734-1738 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1923), 67-68.
[52]
Foundling Museum, Gerald Coke Handel Collection, accession no. 2702, “Jennens
Holdsworth Letters 1,” item 14, f. 1r; repr. Amanda Babington and
Ilias Chrissochoidis, “Musical References in the Jennens–Holdsworth
Correspondence (1729–46),” Royal Musical
Association Research Chronicle, 45:1 (2014), 76–129: 93.
[53] The Daily Journal, no. 4116, Wednesday 27 March 1734, [1].
[54] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 1:446, 449-50.
[55] The Daily Courant, no. 5613, Monday 1 April 1734, [2]; repr., Chrissochoidis, 712.
[56] The London Gazette, [no. 7284], Tuesday 26 – Saturday 30 March 1734, [2].
[57] The Daily Journal, no. 4121, Tuesday 2 April 1734, [1].
[58] The Daily Courant, no. 5615, Wednesday 3 April 1734, [1]; repr., Deutsch, 363.
[59] Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont: Diary of the First Earl of Egmont (Viscount Percival). Vol. II. 1734-1738 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1923), 77-78.
[60] The London Evening-Post, no. 995, Thursday 4 – Saturday 6 April 1734, [3]; partly repr., Deutsch, 363.
[61]
Foundling Museum, Gerald Coke Handel Collection, accession no. 2702, “Jennens
Holdsworth Letters 1,” item 15, f. 1r; repr. Amanda Babington and
Ilias Chrissochoidis, “Musical References in the Jennens–Holdsworth
Correspondence (1729–46),” Royal Musical
Association Research Chronicle, 45:1 (2014), 76–129: 93.
[62] The Daily Courant, no. 5622, Thursday 11 April 1734, [1].
[63] George Faulkner. The Dublin Journal, no. 838, Tuesday 9 – Saturday 13 April 1734, [2]; no. 843, Saturday 27 – Tuesday 30 April 1734, [2].
[64] The Daily Journal, no. 4132, Tuesday 16 April 1734, [2].
[65] The Daily Journal, no. 4136, Saturday 20 April 1734, [2].
[66] Carole Mia Taylor, “Italian Operagoing in London, 1700-1745” (doctoral dissertation, Syracuse University, 1991), 200-01.
[67] Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont: Diary of the First Earl of Egmont (Viscount Percival). Vol. II. 1734-1738 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1923), 92.
[68] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 1:461-63.
[69] The Daily Journal, no. 4150, Tuesday 7 May 1734, [1]; repr., Deutsch, 365.
[70] British Library, Add. Ms. 27733, f. 80r; repr. Carole Mia Taylor, “Italian Operagoing in London, 1700-1745” (Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, 1991), 212.
[71]
Foundling Museum, Gerald Coke Handel Collection, accession no. 2702, “Jennens
Holdsworth Letters 1,” item 16, f. 1v; repr. Amanda Babington and
Ilias Chrissochoidis, “Musical References in the Jennens–Holdsworth
Correspondence (1729–46),” Royal Musical
Association Research Chronicle, 45:1 (2014), 76–129: 93.
[72] The Daily Journal, no. 4160, Saturday 18 May 1734, [2]; repr., Deutsch, 365.
[73] The Daily Journal, no. 4162, Tuesday 21 May 1734, [1].
[74] The Daily Journal, no. 4166, Saturday 25 May 1734, [2].
[75] The Daily Journal, no. 4168, Tuesday 28 May 1734, [2].
[76] The Daily Journal, no. 4174, Tuesday 4 June 1734, [2].
[77] The Daily Journal, no. 4178, Saturday 8 June 1734, [1].
[78] The Daily Journal, no. 4180, Tuesday 11 June 1734, [1].
[79] The Daily Journal, no. 4186, Tuesday 18 June 1734, [1].
[80] Donald Burrows, Handel and the English Chapel Royal (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 611-12.
[81] The Daily Journal, no. 4190, Saturday 22 June 1734, [2].
[82] The Country Journal: Or, The Craftsman, no. 416, Saturday 22 June 1734, [3].
[83] The Daily Journal, no. 4192, Tuesday 25 June 1734, [1].
[84] The Daily Journal, no. 4196, Saturday 29 June 1734, [2].
[85] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 1:484.
[86]
Foundling Museum, Gerald Coke Handel Collection, accession no. 2702, “Jennens
Holdsworth Letters 1,” item 18, f. 1r; repr. Amanda Babington and
Ilias Chrissochoidis, “Musical References in the Jennens–Holdsworth
Correspondence (1729–46),” Royal Musical
Association Research Chronicle, 45:1 (2014), 76–129: 94; (except last
sentence) Händel Handbuch, 243.
[87] The Daily Journal, no. 4199, Wednesday 3 July 1734, [2].
[88] The Daily Journal, no. 4202, Saturday 6 July 1734, [2].
[89] British Library, Add. Ms. 27733, ff. 114v-115r; repr. Carole Mia Taylor, “Italian Operagoing in London, 1700-1745” (Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, 1991), 205.
[90] The London Evening-Post, no. 1037, Thursday 11 – Saturday 13 July 1734, [2].
[91] British Library, Add. Ms. 27733, f. 126r.
[92] British Library, Add. Ms. 27733, f. 131v; repr. Carole Mia Taylor, “Italian Operagoing in London, 1700-1745” (Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, 1991), 212.
[93] The Daily Journal, no. 4276, Tuesday 1 October 1734, [2]; repr., The Grub-street Journal, no. 249, Thursday 3 October 1734, [2].
[94] The London Evening-Post, no. 1076, Thursday 10 – Saturday 12 October 1734, [2]; partly repr., Thomas McGeary, “Farinelli’s Progress to Albion: The Recruitment and Reception of Opera’s ‘Blazing Star,’” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 28 (2005), 339-60: 346, see n. 69, p. 357.
[95] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 1: 508.
[96] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 1:510.
[97] The London Evening-Post, no. 1083, Saturday 26 – Tuesday 29 October 1734, [1].
[98] British Library, Add. Ms. 27738, f. 122r; repr. Carole Mia Taylor, “Italian Operagoing in London, 1700-1745” (Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, 1991), 213.
[99] The London Evening-Post, no. 1085, Thursday 31 October – Saturday 2 November 1734, [1]; repr. (first two paragraphs, from the Ipswich Gazette of 9 November), Deutsch, 374.
[100] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 1, Monday 4 November 1734, [1].
[101] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 1, Monday 4 November 1734, [1]; repr., Deutsch, 372.
[102] The Bee: Or, Universal Weekly Pamphlet 7 (1734), 453; repr., Deutsch, 373.
[103] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 6, Saturday 9 November 1734, [1]; repr., Deutsch, 373.
[104] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 1:516-17.
[105] British Library, Add. Ms. 28050, ff. 223r-224r; repr. Thomas McGeary, “Farinelli and the Duke of Leeds: ‘tanto mio amico e patrone particolare,’” Early Music 30 (2002), 203-14: 205.
[106] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 9, Wednesday 13 November 1734, [1].
[107] Georg Friedrich Händel, Rodelinda, Regina de’ Longobardi. Dramma per Musica in tre Atti, HWV 19, ed. Andrew V. Jones (Kassel et al.: Bärenreiter, 2002), XIX.
[108] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 12, Saturday 16 November 1734, [1].
[109] Foundling Museum, Gerald Coke Collection, HC 769, “Jennens Holdsworth Letters 1,” item 20, f. 1r-v; partly repr. Händel Handbuch, 246.
[110] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 15, Wednesday 20 November 1734, [1].
[111]
Foundling Museum, Gerald Coke Handel Collection, accession no. 2702, “Jennens
Holdsworth Letters 1,” item 20, f. 1; repr. Amanda Babington and Ilias
Chrissochoidis, “Musical References in the Jennens–Holdsworth Correspondence
(1729–46),” Royal Musical Association
Research Chronicle, 45:1 (2014), 76–129: 94; (first paragraph) Händel Handbuch, 246.
[112] The Manuscripts of the Marquess Townshend (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1887), 242-43.
[113] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 18, Saturday 23 November 1734, [1].
[114] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 21, Wednesday 27 November 1734, [1]; repr., Deutsch, 375.
[115] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 24, Saturday 30 November 1734, [1].
[116] Carlo Broschi Farinelli, La solitudine amica: Lettere al conte Sicinio Pepoli, ed. Carlo Vitali (Palermo: Sellerio, 2000), 132.
[117] The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 3 vols. (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), 1:519.
[118] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 27, Wednesday 4 December 1734, [1].
[119] The Weekly Oracle: Or, Universal Library, no. 1, Saturday 7 December 1734, [3].
[120] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 30, Saturday 7 December 1734, [1].
[121] The Country Journal: Or, The Craftsman, no. 440, Saturday 7 December 1734, [3]; repr., Deutsch 376.
[122] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 33, Wednesday 11 December 1734, [1].
[123] The Country Journal: Or, The Craftsman, no. 441, Saturday 14 December 1734, [3].
[124] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 40, Thursday 19 December 1734, [2]; repr. (from the Bee of 21 December), Deutsch, 377.
[125] The Manuscripts of the Marquess Townshend (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1887), 246.
[126] Third Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1872), 257.
[127] The London Daily Post, and General Advertiser, no. 49, Monday 30 December 1734, [2].
[128] The Country Journal: Or, The Craftsman, no. 443, Saturday 28 December 1734, [3]; also in The London Evening-Post, no. 1110, Saturday 28 – Tuesday 31 December 1734, [3].
(a) The Opera.
(b) An Opera set by Mr. Lampe.
(c) An Oratorio, play’d but once.
[129] [John Lockman], The Humours of New Tunbridge Wells at Islington (London: J. Roberts, 1734), 43; repr., Chrissochoidis, 714.