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5293 results for: Keyword - English, Irish, Scotch, and Negroe Songs
We found 2638 matches on Performance Title, 2175 matches on Performance Comments, 1215 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3251
09 February 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Benefit Signora Diana. By $His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: [la Donna Piu Constante Dell' Humo: Viz

Performance Comment: Woman More Constant than Man; or, Diana and Harlequin Metamorphos'd into Armenians, Pilgrims, Bolognese, Spaniards, Neapolitans, Germans, Florentines, English, French, Gypsies, and Indians.

Song: [

Dance: [

3252
06 April 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Brighella. By His Majesty's Command. [A notice denies the rumor that the company is leaving shortly.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cartouche The French Robber

Performance Comment: Brighella : With his surprizing Disguises, and counterfeiting the Personages of a Foreign Prince, a Turk, a Petit Maitre, a Merchant, a Gniais, a Swiss, an English Waterman, an Armenian, a Florentine, a Venetian Gondolier, a Scaramouch, a Stuttering Musick-Master, and a French Dwarf Lady, condemn'd at last to the Galleys.
Cast
Role: a Stuttering Musick Actor: Master, and a French Dwarf Lady, condemn'd at last to the Galleys.

Entertainment: The Representation of a true Accident that lately happen'd in this City-; Likewise some Italian Catches, Musical Entertainments, extraordinary Comical by the said-Brighella; The usual Concert of Instruments will be augmented-; and the Dances entirely new, by several Grotesque Characters, the last-sixteen different Dancers; Dances-Signor Grimaldo Francolino of Malta, Operator for the Teeth, being on his Daparture will perform for this Time only some of his wonderful Dances; particularly one within a Dark Lanthorn

3253
14 December 1727 @ Westminster School

Event Comment: His Royal Highness the Duke present. Mainpiece: By Terence. Afterpiece: Imitated from the Phormio by Moliere, and translated into English by Mr Otway, with some Alterations; acted by the younger King's Scholars

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phormio

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

3254
01 May 1730 @ Charterhouse School

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phormio

Performance Comment: the Scholars; The Prologue, Epilogue- were spoken in English.

3255
12 January 1731 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Apostolo Zeno. Recitatives by Handel. Edition of 1731 gives no performers' names, but states: Done into English by Mr Humphreys.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wenceslaus

3256
02 February 1731 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text from Metastasio. Music by Handel.] Edition of 1731: Done into English by Mr Humphreys

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Performance Comment: Edition of 1731 lists: Poro-Francesco Bernardi called Senesino; Cleofide-Signora Anna StradadePo; Erissena-Signora Antonia Merighi; Gandarte-Signora Francesco Bertolli; Alessandro-Annibale Pio Fabri; Timagene-Giovannie Giuseppe Commano.
Cast
Role: Gandarte Actor: Signora Francesco Bertolli
Role: Alessandro Actor: Annibale Pio Fabri

3257
06 April 1731 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Revised, with many Additions, by the Author and newly done into English by Mr Humphreys. [King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Related Works
Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

3258
06 August 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A new Ballad-Opera. Taken from The Devil of a Wife. Written by Mr Jevon. [For Coffey, Mottley, and Cibber Jr as authors, see Hughes and Scouten, Ten English Farces, pp. 173-74.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil To Pay; Or, The Wives Metamorphos'd

Dance: new dance %Bartholomew Fair-Fisher Tench, Miss Brett

3259
15 February 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Handel. Done into English by Humphreys. Their Majesties, Prince, eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarmes

3260
13 March 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New English Opera (after the Italian Method). [Text by Henry Carey. Music by John Frederick Lampe.] Subscribers' Tickets will not be taken after the first four Nights. Pit and Boxes 6s. Gallery 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

Related Works
Related Work: Amelia Author(s): Richard Cumberland

3261
02 May 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: An Oratorio in English. Formerly Compos'd by Mr Handel, and now revised by him, with several Additions, and to be performed by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. N.B. There will be no Action on the Stage. but the House will be fitted up in a decent Manner for the Audience. The Musick to be disposed after the maner of the Coronation Service. [Their Majesties, Prince, Princess Royal and Amelia present. See also Egmont, Diary, I, 266, and Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, pp. 205-97.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

3262
01 November 1732 @ Soho Square

Event Comment: Acted in English, according to the New Translation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

3263
04 November 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Pietro Metastasio. Done into English by Humphreys. Music presumably by Leonardo Leo.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 145-46. Daily Advertiser, 6 Nov.: There were present a very numerous Audience; and Signora Celeste Gismondi, who lately arriv'd here, perform'd a principal Part in it with universal Applause. We hear that this Opera was not compos'd by Mr Handell, but by some very eminent Master in Italy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

3264
16 November 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New English Opera. [Text by Thomas Lediard.] Set to Musick after the Italian Manner by Mr John Frederick Lampe. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely New. With the Representation of a Transparent Theatre. Curiously Illuminated, and adorn'd with a great Number of Emblems, Mottos, Devices, and Inscriptions; and embellish'd with Machines, in a Manner entirely new. N.B. The Illuminations and other Preparations for this Opera are such, that no Person whatever can be admitted to the Stage. Pit and Boxes put together at 6s. Gallery 3s. 6 p.m. [For a discussion of Lediard and this work, see a series of articles by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, Sybil Rosenfeld, and Richard Southern in Theatre Notebook, II (1948), 42-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

3265
20 November 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A New English Opera after the Italian Manner. [Text by Henry Carey. Set to Musick by John Christopher Smith.] Pit and Boxes put together at 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6 p.m. Receipts: For Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Teraminta

Performance Comment: Edition of 1732 lists: Gozanes-Hussey; Xarino-Mrs Barbier; Cratander-Miss Jones; Teraminta-Miss Arne; Ardelia-Mrs Chambers.
Cast
Role: Cratander Actor: Miss Jones

3266
25 November 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #68 13s;6d. Daily Advertiser, 25 Nov.: One of the Performers of the English Opera...having been taken very ill, the Opera is oblig'd to be suspended

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Cassiope Actor: Mrs Sanderson
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Carter
Role: with the Grand Dance of Momus Actor: .

3267
27 January 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Wherein the Cloaths and Scenes are all intirely New. [Music by Handel. Text possibly by Grazio Braccioli, but see Deutsch, Handel, p. 303.] Done into English by Mr Humphreys. [Their Majesties, Duke, and Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

Performance Comment: Edition of 1732 lists: Orlando-Senesino; Angelica-Signora Strada; Medoro-Signora Bertolli; Dorinda-Signora Celeste; Zoroastro-Montagnana.
Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Senesino

3268
23 May 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Tradesman and his Family. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Ballet: TThe Difference of Nations. Dutch Skippers-Thurmond, Mrs Bullock; French Peasants-Vallois, Miss Sandham; Scots-J. Delagarde, Mrs Wherrit; English Peasants-Sandham, Mrs Haughton

Performance Comment: Dutch Skippers-Thurmond, Mrs Bullock; French Peasants-Vallois, Miss Sandham; Scots-J. Delagarde, Mrs Wherrit; English Peasants-Sandham, Mrs Haughton.
Cast
Role: French Peasants Actor: Vallois, Miss Sandham
Role: English Peasants Actor: Sandham, Mrs Haughton.

3269
11 March 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Music: V: Handel's Water Musick, in which Poitier will beat the Kettle Drum

Dance: I: A new Dutch Dance by Le Brun and Mrs Walter. II: Two Pierrots by Poitier and Davenport. III: English Maggot by Lally Jr and Mrs Walter. IV: La Badine by Lally, Mlle Grognet, Lally Jr, Mrs Walter

Performance Comment: II: Two Pierrots by Poitier and Davenport. III: English Maggot by Lally Jr and Mrs Walter. IV: La Badine by Lally, Mlle Grognet, Lally Jr, Mrs Walter .

3270
13 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Serenata. Being an Essay of several different Sorts of Harmony.[Music by Handel. Done into English by George Oldmixon.] Daily Advertiser, 14 March: Last Night Mr Handell's new Serenata, in Honour of the Princess Royal's Nuptials with the Prince of Orange, was perform'd before their Majesties, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Orange, and all the Royal Family, and was received with the greatest Applause; the Piece containing the most exquisite Harmony ever furnish'd from the Stage, and the Disposition of the Performers being contriv'd in a very grand and magnificent Manner. [The marriage of the Prince of Orange and Royal Princess occurred on Thursday, 14 March.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa; Or, Apollo And The Muses Celebrating The Nuptials Of Thetis And Peleus

3271
26 March 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Clown by Nivelon. Watteau by Miss Robinson. English Maggot by Lally and Mrs Walter. Revellers, as17340319

Performance Comment: Watteau by Miss Robinson. English Maggot by Lally and Mrs Walter. Revellers, as17340319.

3272
28 March 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Love and Glory

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant by Le Bran. II: Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. III: Polonese, as17340325 IV: English Maggot by Lally Jr and Mrs Walter. V: Grand Dance in Momus, as17340316

Performance Comment: II: Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. III: Polonese, as17340325 IV: English Maggot by Lally Jr and Mrs Walter. V: Grand Dance in Momus, as17340316.

3273
30 March 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Music: A Comic Medley Overture composed by Charke

Dance: I: A new Maggot by Le Brun. In II: Polonese, as17340325 V: Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. End I of Afterpiece: English Maggot by Lally and Mrs Walter. End Afterpiece: Grand Dance in Momus, as17340316

Performance Comment: In II: Polonese, as17340325 V: Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. End I of Afterpiece: English Maggot by Lally and Mrs Walter. End Afterpiece: Grand Dance in Momus, as17340316.

Song: III: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond by Miss Arne. IV: Bella Sorge L'Esperanza (from Ariadne) by Miss Arne

3274
15 April 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: II: Minuet by Mlle Grognet and Mrs Sanderson. IV: English Maggot by S. Lally and Mrs Walter. V: La Badinage de Champetre by Lally, Mrs Walter, &c

Performance Comment: IV: English Maggot by S. Lally and Mrs Walter. V: La Badinage de Champetre by Lally, Mrs Walter, &c .

3275
26 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Rochetti. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. N.B. The breaking his Leg having render'd him incapable of attending his Friends and Benefactors as he ought to do, he hopes, the so justly celebrated English Good Nature will regard him at this time. [This performance may have been dismissed.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: II: By Malter and Mlle Salle. III: The Nassau, as17340117 V: By Malter and Mlle Salle

Performance Comment: III: The Nassau, as17340117 V: By Malter and Mlle Salle .

Song: I and IV: By Rochetti