Midas (1764)

Author
Kane O'Hara
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Ballad Opera/Burletta/Opera
Performance Medium
Musical
Associated work receipts The physical apparatus employed on and around the stage to support, enhance and sometimes substitute the performers' enactment of drama.
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
£31,456 1s 6d £22,890 10s (72.8%) £8,565 11s 6d (27.2%)
1732 - 1809
£31,456 1s 6d - (100%) £22,890 10s (72.8%) £8,565 11s 6d (27.2%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
225 194 31
1732 - 1809
225 194 31
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
05 May 1778 Covent Garden The British Heroine, Midas No No Yes £188 15s 6d 65% N/A
27 Mar 1779 Covent Garden Jane Shore, Midas, The Burgomaster No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 Apr 1779 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, True Blue, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 Apr 1779 Covent Garden Venice Preserved, Midas No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Apr 1779 Covent Garden Cymbeline, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 May 1779 Covent Garden The Wives Revenged, Alexander the Great, The Farmer's Return from London, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 May 1779 Covent Garden All In The Wrong, The Farmer's Return from London, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Sep 1779 Covent Garden As You Like It, Midas, The Dockyard, Dance of Forresters No No No £142 19s 6d 100% N/A
04 Oct 1779 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, Midas, The Dockyard No No No £216 12s 100% N/A
13 Oct 1779 Covent Garden The Bondman, Midas, The Shepherds Wedding No No No £195 1s 6d 100% N/A
23 Oct 1779 Covent Garden The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff, Midas No No No £133 15s 58% N/A
02 Apr 1781 Covent Garden King Charles The First, True Blue, Midas, Dance of Sailors No No Yes £205 19s 54% N/A
23 Apr 1781 Covent Garden Jane Shore, A Fete, Midas No No Yes £212 9s 45% N/A
24 May 1781 Covent Garden A New Way To Pay Old Debts, Midas No No No £89 6s 70% N/A
19 Oct 1781 Covent Garden Duplicity, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Feb 1782 Covent Garden Which Is The Man?, The Dramatic Puffers, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Feb 1782 Covent Garden Which Is The Man?, The Dramatic Puffers, Midas No No No £212 18s 6d 68% N/A
26 Apr 1784 Covent Garden Epicoene Or The Silent Woman, Midas, A Description of the Curiosities of the Tower of London, Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row No No Yes £349 15s 6d 71% N/A
28 Apr 1784 Covent Garden Love In A Village, Midas, Statute Dance, The Poney Races No No Yes £195 16s 6d 47% N/A
18 May 1784 Covent Garden More Ways Than One, Midas, Damon and Musidora, The Huntsman's sweet Hollo No No Yes £142 13s 69% N/A
18 Oct 1784 Covent Garden Cymbeline, Midas, Pastoral Sports No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Dec 1784 Covent Garden Barbarossa, Midas No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Dec 1784 Covent Garden The Follies Of A Day, Midas No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Mar 1785 Covent Garden Robin Hood, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Mar 1785 Covent Garden The Follies Of A Day, Midas No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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