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Magna Britannia
… preparing at Hognaston a few days afterwards for the comic opera of Love in a Village. Bulls and badgers, and sometimes …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… burgi nostri et civitatis de Glasgow non pauca egregia opera suscepisse, magnosque sumptus et impensas hisce multis …
Alumni Oxonienses
… siege of Gloucester in Sept., 1643, the originator of ' opera' in England 1656, began in Rutland House, in …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… lodging, at the Vicechamberlain's etc., fitting up the opera room for a dancing room, putting up partitions, basons …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… P.N. Mdx. (E.P.N.S.), pp. xv, xvi; Stenton, A.S. Eng. 386. Opera (Lives of the Abbots of St. Albans), ed. W. Wats …
Old and New London
… Amburgh and his Wild BeastsThe Theatre opened as an Opera-house. In speaking of Drury Lane Theatre there arises a … Here the silver-toned Mrs. Billington appeared in the opera of Rosetta. Haydn the composer, who admired this lady … as a successful composer of English, French, and Italian opera. The works of Michael Balfe are appreciated not only in …
A History of the County of Chester
… Charters of A.-N. Earls, nos. 198, 221. Gerald of Wales, Opera (Rolls Ser.), i. 186; vi. 139-40; Middle Ages in NW. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Rep. 65; Newcourt, Repertorium, i. 70. Radulfi de Diceto Opera Hist. (Rolls Ser.), i, pp. xxii, xxxv-xxxvi, 251. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… was sometimes provided elsewhere. In 1778 a wooden opera house or 'concert booth' was opened in Moseley Road, …
A History of the County of Warwick
… indirectly mirror local middle-class taste. In addition to opera and plays, which included a sprinkling of Shakespeare, … over 3,000 people, and specialized in melodramas and light opera. 72 The Queen's Theatre was also erected in 1883: it … themselves, however strong the pressure. Resident opera, for example, failed completely - Jackson tried out …