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- Creator:
- Theatre Royal (Birmingham, England)
- Published / Created:
- [1813]
- Call Number:
- File 767 P69B B619 1813
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- Playbill advertising a performance at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham which principally takes the form of an apology announcing that the lead of the evening's entertainment, Italian opera singer Angelica Catalani (1780-1849), is unable to attend due to ill health. The soprano's appearance had been much publicised by the local press, hence the need to justify her absence by publishing a communication by the attending doctor
- Alternative Title:
- Mr. Bartley most respectfully begs leave to inform the public ...
- Description:
- Caption title. and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Theatre Royal and [J]onathan Knott, printer, Birmingham
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Theatre Royal (Birmingham, England), Catalani, Angelica, 1780-1849., Centlivre, Susanna, 1667?-1723., and Birch, Samuel, 1757-1841.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theater and History
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Birmingham. Mr. Bartley most respectfully begs leave to inform the public, that he received on Wednesday morning an intimation from Mr. Elliston, that Madame Catalani laboured under an indisposition of so serious a nature, that it precluded her from performing here on Friday evening ... : This present Friday, October 29, 1813, will be presented the favourite comedy of A bold stroke for a wife ... to conclude with the favourite farce of The adopted child ...