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9 results for: Keyword - Elector of Mentz
We found 6 matches on Event Comments, 3 matches on Performance Comments, 1 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

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11 March 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Theatrical Review, 11 March: Written by the celebrated Milton when he was very young...it would have been sufficient had he never produced anthing more considerable, to have transmitted his fame to the latest posterity. It is inimitable set to music by Mr Handel...not strictly an Oratorio, tho' perform'd as such, the subject not being taken from Holy Writ. To which was added the celebrated Te Deum, composed by Mr Handel for the peace of Utrecht...a very grand masterly piece. End of Act I, a Concerto on the French Horn by Mr Ponta, musician to his Serene Highness, the Elector of Mentz, lately arrived in England. What this gentleman executes with the horn is very surprising, but, not being suited to the genius of the instrument, it is not productive of any good effect, when considered musically; as a matter of novelty it may surprise and please, on which account it is worthy the notice of the curious

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Ed Il Penseroso, With Handel's te Deum

Music: Concerto on French Horn-Ponta (Musician to his Serene Highness the Elector of Mentz); Solo on Violincello-Janson, his 2nd performance in England

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06 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Words from Holy Writ...Music so admirable designed by Handel as to Beggar all description (Theatrical Review). Mr Ponta is Musician to his Serene Highness the Elector of Mentz. Tickets and places for boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjeant at the Stage Door. Box 5s. Pit 4s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Books of the performance sold at the Theatre. Doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at half past Six (Account Book). [Messrs Toms and Arnold were putting on the Oratorios at Covent Garden this season.] Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: Part I: Concerto on French Horn-Mr Ponta; End Part II: Concerto on Violin-Sga Lombardini Sirmen (Theatrical Review, 214)

3
27 March 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Performance Comment: See17111205, but Darius-Benedetti Baldissari, Servant to his Highness the Elector Balatine, newly arriv'd.
Cast
Role: Darius Actor: Benedetti Baldissari, Servant to his Highness the Elector Balatine, newly arriv'd.

4
19 October 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Wilson, Edwin, Whitfield, L'Estrange, Egan, Booth, Robson, Thompson, Fearon, Baker, Bates, Webb, Stevens, W. Bates, Jones, Quick, Mrs Morton, Mrs Webb. [Cast from text (G. Kearsly, 1780) and London Chronicle, 20 Oct.: Parmazan-Wilson; Goose-Edwin; Belfield-Whitfield; Electors-L'Estrange, Thompson, Baker, J. Wilson; O'Shannon-Egan; Canvass-Booth; Ballad@singer-Robson; MacRhetorick-Fearon; Marrowbone-Bates; Shrimp-Webb; Bristle-Stevens; Proteus-W. Bates; Cryer-Jones; Jail@bird-Cushing; George-Quick; Letitia-Mrs Morton; Mrs Highflight-Mrs Webb; Prologue-Wilson. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: Electors Actor: L'Estrange, Thompson, Baker, J. Wilson

Dance: II: Masquerade Dance-; End: The Humours of Leixlip, as17801018

5
15 April 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Post Boy, 13-15 April 1699: As both the Theatres have been very industrious to Entertain the Town with several eminent Master in Singing and Dancing, lately arrived, both from France and Italy, as Monsieur Balon, Signior Fideli, &c. we are now assured that the Masters of the Theatre Royal have engag'd Signior Clementine, the famous Eunuch, Servant of the Elector of Bavaria, to Sing on their publick Stage, for the short time of his stay in England. There is very great Expectation from his Performance as being a Person of that extraordinary Desert in Singing, that his yearly Salary on that Account is 500 #. a Year

Performances

6
11 July 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

Performance Comment: Celadon-Wilks; a new Prologue-Pinkeman representing a French Officer (in the Service of the Elector of Bavaria) just before the Engagement at Donawert; and an Epilogue-Pinkeman personating the same Officer after the Battle.

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Dance:

7
11 March 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Benedetti Baldassari, servant to the Elector Palatine, lately arriv'd in England. At 7 p.m. Tickets half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing-Benedetti Baldassari

8
09 January 1721 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Benedetto Baldassari, Servant to the Elector Palatine. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

9
16 March 1722 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Benedetti Baldassary, Servant to the Elector Palatine. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-