This evening, Tuesday, November 15, 1836, the entertainments will commence with ... the favorite opera, (written by S.J. Arnold, Esq.), entitled The Devil's bridge, the music composed by Mr. Braham and Mr. Horn. After which, will be performed the vaudeville burletta, entitled The loan of a lover ... In the course of the evening will be presented a musical pasticcio ... The evening's entertainments to conclude ... with the favorite farce, called My neighbour's wife!

Record ID: 
418765
Accession number: 
PMC 1139
Title: 
This evening, Tuesday, November 15, 1836, the entertainments will commence with ... the favorite opera, (written by S.J. Arnold, Esq.), entitled The Devil's bridge, the music composed by Mr. Braham and Mr. Horn. After which, will be performed the vaudeville burletta, entitled The loan of a lover ... In the course of the evening will be presented a musical pasticcio ... The evening's entertainments to conclude ... with the favorite farce, called My neighbour's wife!
Published: 
[London] : S.G. Fairbrother, printer, Exeter Court, Strand, [1836]
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Cary Fund in 1998.
Notes: 

Performance for the benefit of Mr. Peake, treasurer. Performers include: Madame Vestris, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Bartley, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Giubilei, Miss E. Romer, Miss Lee, Miss Pincott, Mr. James Vining, Mr. W. Vining, Mr. Varnold.
Also on the bill: "... the extraordinary juvenile professors of the violin and violoncello, Masters Viotti and Lindley Collins, will play their brilliant variations, and Miss Elvina Collins, (a child only four years old) will perform a solo on the violin, (her second public appearance) accompanied by their father, Mr. Isaac Collins, surnamed the English Paganini."

Associated names: 

Fairbrother, S. G. (Samuel Glover), active 1823-1855, printer.