SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Castle Horatio Mr Packer Several parts of ye play as it is in "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Castle Horatio Mr Packer Several parts of ye play as it is in ")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?

Keyword

?
We found 10697 matches on Event Comments, 5478 matches on Performance Comments, 2462 matches on Performance Title, 22 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Shipwrecked Lovers; Or, Friendly Perfidy Punished

Song: tragi-comic song in the Welch Taste call'd% Hugh Morgan's Lamentation-a Choice Spirit from Common's Court

Dance: Conclude: a song, dance-

Music: An extraordinary Band of Musick is furnished such as you don't hear every day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comic Lectures

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: By Particular Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: CConcerto on Organ-Stanley; Solo on Violin-Giardini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: IV: Miss Spencer

Dance: HHornpipe-a sailor from the Royal Sovereign

Event Comment: [Sga Mattei announced her undertaking direction of Italian Serious Operas and Burlettas for the ensuing winter, promised the performance of them for the best advantage of the public, and listed the members of the company she had engaged: For Serious Operas: herself, Philippo Elisi (the first singer in Italy), Gaetano Quilice (tenor), Angiola Calori (second woman), Giovanni Sorbelloni (second man), and a new singer for the lowest character. For the Burlettas: Sga Paganini (the first female character and the foremost in Italy), Gaetano Quilice (the first man), Sga Eleardi (second woman), Paganini (second man), Signor N. N. (third man), Angiola Calori and Sorbelloni (to perform the serious parts in the Burlettas). Dancers: Mlle Asselin (first woman dancer), Gheradi (first dancer of the men, and ballet master), famed both in the serious and comic as well as for his invention as for exercises in dancing. There will also be other comic dancers, and figures both for the serious operas and burlettas.

Performances

Event Comment: An Oratorio in two Parts never perform'd before. 7 p.m. By Charles Barbandt. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. By Subscription. N.B. Ladies are desired to send servants to take places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: David And Jonathan

Music: Solo on Violin-Jackson; Solo on German Flute-Kolowiky; Solo Violincello-Paxton; Solo Hautboy-Barbandt

Event Comment: A sacred oratorio in two parts by Charles Barbandt. Tickets delivered for 28 Jan. will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Paradise Regained

Music: Solos on violin-Jackson; German Flute-Kolowiky; Violincello-Paxton; Hautboy and on Organ-Barbant [sic]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith

Music: A Concerto on the Organ-

Event Comment: This day Publish'd Price 1s. Samson an Oratorio, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Altered and adapted to the stage from the Samson Agonistes of Milton. @171 tickets at 10s. 6d. #89 15s. 6d.@232 tickets at 5s. #58@320 tickets at 3s. 6d. #56@723 present.@Receipts: #203 15s. 6d.@ Paid renters #10. Paid Younger a Bill for writing parts #2 12s. 11d. (Account Book). Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: As17610206

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: John Actor: Castle

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Performance Comment: See17601219, but cast first listed: Sir Archy McSarcasm-Macklin; Sir Theodore-Dunstall; Sir Callaghan-Barrington; Mordecai-Cresswick; Squire Groom-Shuter; Charlotte (by desire)-Miss Macklin (Public Advertiser); Attorney-Weller (playbill).

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; End: Minuet-Poitier Jr, Miss Macklin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inchanted Forest

Performance Comment: Whole performance conducted by Worgan. Instrumental parts by the very best performers in London.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17611012

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Songs From Artaxerxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: II: The Bavarian Shoemakers, as17621009

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performance Comment: As17630104 [N.B. Woodward and Miles restored to original parts.]

Dance: I: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: TThe Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: For last time this Season. Part of Pit rail'd into Boxes. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted (playbill). [See 6 April 1763. Smith's Skit is Larpent MS 222, in which each of the seven ages is acted out and accompanied with generalized comment.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: After: The Humours of the Age Imitation of Shakespeare's Stages-Smith

Dance: TThe Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Catley and Hull. Afterpiece: By Desire, but for last time this season. No Building on Stage (playbill). [The Briton" song is Larpent MS 203, high praise of George III, as a truly British king.] Such as please to send for tickets shall have the words of the Ode gratis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Song: I: A New Ode, call'd A Briton the Son of a Briton- set to music by Bates. Vocal parts: Mattocks, Miss Catley; in IV: Nymphs and Shepherds-Miss Catley

Performance Comment: Vocal parts: Mattocks, Miss Catley; in IV: Nymphs and Shepherds-Miss Catley.

Dance: A New Comic Dance, as17630224

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: I: A Minuet-Duquesney, Miss Macklin; IV: Hornpipe-Miss Twist; End: The Knife Grinders, as17631012

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: I: The Irish Lilt, as17641011; III: A New Scaramouch Dance, as17641013; IV: New Tambourine, as17640929