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WR.733.026
3 Sep 1733:12 (101)
London, June 2 . . . We are credibly inform'd that one day
last week Mr. H--d-l, Director-General of the Opera-House,
sent a message to Signior Senesino, the famous Italian opera
singer, acquainting him that he had no farther occasion for
his service; and when Senesino reply'd the next day by a
letter, containing a full resignation of all his parts in
the opera, which he had performed for many years with great
applause.----We hope the polite Mr. Walsingham will give us
leave to observe, upon this occasion, tho the world seems
greatly astonish'd at so unexpected an event; and that all
true lovers of musick grieve to see so fine a singer
dismiss'd, in so critical a conjuncture.
We have likewise received undoubted intelligence from the
Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, that a considerable body of
malecontent players, under the command of that puissant
Captain, Mr. The----lus C----r have lately enter'd into a
mutinous association against their masters, the Patenteer
and still continue in a state of hostility; which hath
prevented any plays being acted there this week.---- So that
this season is likely to end with great convulsions and
changes in the theatrical, as well as the political world.
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