...of imperial size !
12 March 1726 Scipione Handel (23 February 1685) ,King’s Theatre, London ,libr Rolli.
au printemps 1726 Naples Pietro AULETTA (1698 -1771)LA CARLOTTA opera buffa en trois actes – livret de Bernardo Saddumene
5 May 1726 Handel (* 23 February 1685), Alessandro O Mauro, King’s Theatre, London
2 September 1726 Calandro is an opera buffa in three acts composed by Giovanni Alberto Ristori*1692 to a libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino. The libretto was based on the comedy Il Calandro by Bernardo Dovizi (Cardinal Bibbiena). In turn, Dovizi's play borrowed elements of the plot from Plautus's Menaechmi and the character Calandro from Boccaccio's Decameron It was first staged on 2 September 1726 in Dresden.
2 September 1726 in the court theatre at the Schloss Pillnitz (Pillnitz Castle) near Dresden at the request of Maria Josepha of Austria to celebrate the return of her husband, Augustus III
(17 October 1696 – 5 October 1763) married to Maria Josepha 1719 source : zims-en.kiwix.campusafrica.gos.orange.com/wikipedia_en_all_nopic/A/Augustus_III_of_Poland) , King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1734 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire from 1733 until 1763 where he was known as Frederick Augustus II
Comment: So, at the time, and in view of wikipedia's mistake on original text, Maria Josepha, already married was either divorced to mary emperor Charles VI as above or it's all a matter of Handel's /Voltaire's etc traditional intrusion, as Charles VI, in royal affairs. Further investigation needed!!!
2 Sep 1726 Marriage: Henry [Boyle], 1st Earl of Shannon, PC (*c. 1686 + 27 Dec 1764 bur. in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin) married (2nd) TO 3rd dau. of Charles [Boyle], 3rd Earl of Cork, by his wife Juliana Noel, dau. and hrss. of Hon Henry Noel, of North Luffenham, Rutland, 2nd son by his third wife of Baptist [Noel], 3rd Viscount Campden (web.archive.org/web/20110215070212/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index415.htm#SHANNON_1756_9)
*7 September 1726 (con dec 1725)born François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer .
September 11 – French bishop André-Hercule de Fleury (*1653), later Prime Minister for King Louis XV of France, is made a Roman Catholic Cardinal by Pope Benedict XIII.
September 23 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740) and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy from 1711 until his death, issues an order limiting the number of Jews who can be legally recognized as legitimate householders.[30]
Le 1er octobre 1726, Claude Dupin (*8 mai 1686 + 1769), sur une nouvelle intervention de Samuel Bernard et grâce à un prêt de celui-ci, il obtient l'une des quarante places extrêmement lucratives de fermier général.
17 October 1726. Pyrame et Thisbé (Pyramus and Thisbe) is an opera by the French composers François Francœur (8 September 1698 ) and François Rebel, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre, is based on the story of Pyramus and Thisbe in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The role of Thisbé was created by Marie Pélissier.[1]
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