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She made her operatic debut at London's Queen’s Theatre in the pasticcio (an opera built from pieces of other operas) <i>Creso</i> on 27th January 1714, and became a highly-paid soloist on the London operatic and  concert stages between 1714 and 1724. She appeared in numerous Italian operas by Handel, including the 1713–14 revival of <i>Rinaldo</i> (1711) as Almirena, as well as the premieres of <i>Amadigi di Gaula</i> (1715, as Oriana),<i> Radamisto </i>(1720, as Zenobia), <i>Floridante</i> (1721, as Elmira), and <i>Giulio Cesare</i> (1724, as Cornelia), and  in operas by other composers, including Domenico Scarlatti’s <i>Narciso </i>(1720), and  Giovanni Porta’s <i>Numitore</i>, the premiere of which marked the opening of the Royal  Academy of Music in 1720. Some time between 1717 and 1720 Robinson’s voice dropped from soprano to alto.\r\n\r\nAlthough she is said to have married Charles Mordaunt, the 3rd Earl of  Peterborough, in secret in 1722, it was not publicly acknowledged by him until 1735, perhaps because of the stigma of marrying a woman who had appeared on  the stage. Despite living at Bevois Mount House on the Earl's Southampton estate until her death in 1755, she was not mentioned in his will and was never  acknowledged by his children from his first wife, Carey Fraser. 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