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An English-language, Italian-style opera staged at Drury Lane in 1705. Peter Anthony Motteux adapted a libretto by Tommaso Stanzani for the London production. The title character was fictional and unrelated to historical women named Arsinoe. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
Beauty in Distress is a 1698 tragedy by the English writer Peter Anthony Motteux. The original Lincoln's Inn Fields cast included Thomas Betterton as Don Vincentio, John Verbruggen as Ricardo, Edward Kynaston as Duke Ferdinand, John Hodgson as Fabiano, Elizabeth Barry as Laura, Anne Bracegirdle as Placentia and Henrietta Moore as Morella.
Camilla, heir to the Volsci throne, hides as a shepherdess while plotting to overthrow Latinus, who has usurped the crown. She saves Prenesto from a boar, and he falls in love with her. Lavinia hides her lover, the enemy king Turnus, while Latinus presses her to marry. After Camilla is captured and freed by Prenesto, a popular uprising defeats Latinus’s forces. Camilla and Prenesto marry, ending the political conflict.
A six-scene danced drama by John Weaver, conveying its story through dance, gesture, and music alone and drawing on Peter Anthony Motteux’s play of the same title.
The Stage Coach is a 1704 play by George Farquhar and Peter Motteux. A farce, it is based on the 1680 French play Les Carrosses d'Orléans by Jean de La Chapelle. It was staged at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London as an afterpiece to a revival of John Crowne's The Country Wit. The cast included Thomas Doggett as Nicodemus Somebody, Barton Booth as Captain Basil, George Pack as Fetch, John Freeman as Micher and Abigail Hunt as Dolly.
The plot centers on a love triangle among fictional characters: Persian princess Cleora, Scythian prince Orontes, and Armenian king Tigranes. Cleora is held captive by Orontes but falls in love with him despite being betrothed to Tigranes. In the 1707 version, Queen Thomyris intervenes to prevent the Scythians from sacrificing Cleora after she receives false news that Orontes has died; Tigranes is wounded in battle. The opera’s historical title figure is based on Queen Tomyris, but the love story is fictional.
An English-language, Italian-style opera staged at Drury Lane in 1705. Peter Anthony Motteux adapted a libretto by Tommaso Stanzani for the London production. The title character was fictional and unrelated to historical women named Arsinoe. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
Beauty in Distress is a 1698 tragedy by the English writer Peter Anthony Motteux. The original Lincoln's Inn Fields cast included Thomas Betterton as Don Vincentio, John Verbruggen as Ricardo, Edward Kynaston as Duke Ferdinand, John Hodgson as Fabiano, Elizabeth Barry as Laura, Anne Bracegirdle as Placentia and Henrietta Moore as Morella.
Camilla, heir to the Volsci throne, hides as a shepherdess while plotting to overthrow Latinus, who has usurped the crown. She saves Prenesto from a boar, and he falls in love with her. Lavinia hides her lover, the enemy king Turnus, while Latinus presses her to marry. After Camilla is captured and freed by Prenesto, a popular uprising defeats Latinus’s forces. Camilla and Prenesto marry, ending the political conflict.
A six-scene danced drama by John Weaver, conveying its story through dance, gesture, and music alone and drawing on Peter Anthony Motteux’s play of the same title.
The Stage Coach is a 1704 play by George Farquhar and Peter Motteux. A farce, it is based on the 1680 French play Les Carrosses d'Orléans by Jean de La Chapelle. It was staged at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London as an afterpiece to a revival of John Crowne's The Country Wit. The cast included Thomas Doggett as Nicodemus Somebody, Barton Booth as Captain Basil, George Pack as Fetch, John Freeman as Micher and Abigail Hunt as Dolly.
The plot centers on a love triangle among fictional characters: Persian princess Cleora, Scythian prince Orontes, and Armenian king Tigranes. Cleora is held captive by Orontes but falls in love with him despite being betrothed to Tigranes. In the 1707 version, Queen Thomyris intervenes to prevent the Scythians from sacrificing Cleora after she receives false news that Orontes has died; Tigranes is wounded in battle. The opera’s historical title figure is based on Queen Tomyris, but the love story is fictional.