Covent Garden Theatre

A collection of playbills from Covent Garden Theatre 1809-1811

Theater Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Friday, November 13, 1829, will be acted Shakspeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet ... after which the operatic entertainment of Home, sweet home! or, The Ranz des vaches

First time in this country of a selection from Beethoven's Fidelio ...

This evening, Thursday, December 6, 1832, will be performed the play of The hunchback ... after which, the grand ballet of Masaniello as originally produced at the King's Theatre with the same splendour of scenery, dresses, and decorations. The ballet composed by Mons Deshayes. The music by Auber ...

Mad. Montessu having, on Monday last, been honoured with the most enthusiastic applause, will make her second and last appearance on the English stage to-morrow evening. To-morrow, (Thursday) February 21, 1833, will be performed the play of The iron chest ... with a favourite divertissement, by all the principal dancers. After which, the grand ballet of Masaniello (from the King's Theatre) with all its original splendour of scenery, dresses & decorations, in which Madame Montessu ... will make her second and last appearance on the English stage. The ballet composed by Mons. Deshayes. The music by Auber. ... The public is respectfully informed that the sacred performances during Lent will commence at this Theatre on Friday next, Feb. 22, 1833, when will be represented (for the first time in this country) an oratorio consisting of sacred music, scenery, & personation, entitled The Israelites in Egypt, or, The passage of the Red Sea. The music composed wholly by Handel and Rossini. (Adapt

Mr. Laporte respectfully announces to the public that the eighth representation will be on Saturday, July 28, 1832, when will be performed La fille d'honneur ... and (for the second time in this country) a new grand ballet in two acts (arranged and produced by Mons. P. Taglioni) called La sylphide ...

This present Monday, February 11, 1833 (2nd time on the English stage) the grand national ballet of Kenilworth (from the King's Theatre) with all its original splendour of scenery, dresses & decorations. The ballet composed by Mons. Deshayes. The music by Sig. Costa ... After which (26th time) a new original comic drama (in two acts) called Nell Gwynne, or, The prologue! ... with (39th time) a new grand comic and melo-dramatic pantomime called Puss in boots, or, Harlequin and the miller's son ...

Grand combination for the 4th time on the English stage of the celebrated artistes Monsieur Albert, Monsieur Albert, fils, Madamoiselle Noblet, and Madamoiselle Dupont, principal dancers of the Academie Royale de Musique at Paris. This evening, Saturday, May 10, 1834, will be performed (4th time) on the English stage, a new grand ballet in 3 acts, called The fairy slipper founded on the celebrated ballet of Cendrillon composed by Mons. Albert ... The music composed by Monsieur Sor ... After which (15th time) a new farce to be called A good looking fellow ... To conclude with Weber's grand romantic opera of Der Freischutz! ...

Theatrical fund

The comedy of errors

Harlequin in his element, or, Fire, water, earth, & air

Songs, duets, chorusses, etc. in The marriage of Figaro

The tempest

The beggar's opera

King Lear

Every man in his humour

Shakespeare's Winter's tale

Achilles

Shakespeare's Cymbeline, king of Britain

Helpless animals! or, Bachelor's fare

Shakespeare's Othello, the Moor of Venice

The merry wives of Windsor

Ali Pacha, or, The signet-ring

Shakspeare's King Richard the Third

Two faces under a hood

A sketch of Begone dull care, or, How will it end

The songs, duets, chorusses, &c in the new grand comic, melodramatic, romantic Christmas pantomime, called Hop O' My Thumb and his brothers, or, Harlequin and the ogre

Songs, duets, chorusses, &c. in the new grand melo-dramatic and comic Christmas pantomime (founded on a well-known nursery tale), to be called Puss in boots, or, Harlequin & the miller's son

Macbeth

Le nozze di Figaro

Artaxerxes

Much ado about nothing

Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice

Shakspeare's Tempest, or, The enchanted island

King Richard the Third

The songs in the opera of Nina

Twelfth night; or, What you will

The songs, duets, choruses, &c in the new grand mythological comic, melo-dramatic, partly operatical, innubibus, historical Christmas pantomime, called Old Mother Hubbard and her dog, or, Harlequin & the tales of the nursery

An exact account of the favourite pantomime called, Harlequin's chaplet

Songs, chorusses, &c &c, in the new comic pantomime, called Harlequin and poor Robin, or, The House that Jack built

Songs, duets, &c. in The duenna