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6172 results for: Keyword - Four Kings
We found 2697 matches on Performance Title, 2643 matches on Performance Comments, 1858 matches on Event Comments, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6051
07 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

6052
18 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

6053
24 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection [of Sacred Music 0; Messiah

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Music: End II: concerto on the Piano Forte-Clementi

6054
03 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection Of Sacred Music 0; Messiah

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Music: As17900224

6055
05 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus; Grand Selection 0; Messiah

Music: As17900224

6056
10 March 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection From The Works Of handel 0; Messiah

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: Fourth Hautboy Concerto-; Venus laughing from the skies-Chorus (Theodora); Ask if yon damask rose be sweet-Miss Romanzini (Susanna); My arms against this Gorgias, Arm arm ye brave=-Reinhold; We come in bright array-Chorus (Judas Maccabaeus); Hence loathed melancholy, Come thou goddess fair and free-Cizo (L'Allegro); From mighty kings-Miss Hagley (Judas Maccabaeus); To sing and dance, Fix'd in his everlasting seat-Grand Chorus (Samson).
Cast
Role: Fourth Hautboy Concerto Actor:
Role: From mighty kings Actor: Miss Hagley

Music: End II: concerto on the violin-Weichsel

6057
26 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection Of Sacred Music 0

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Performance Comment: From the censer-Chorus as17900224; Come thou Goddess-Saville; +Hush ye pretty warbling choir-Miss Mahon; Kings shall be thy nursing fathers-Grand Chorus; Softly rise-Harrison; Ye southern breezes-Chorus; What though I trace-Miss Poole all as17900317 Venus laughing from the skies-Chorus (Theodora); Let the bright Seraphim-Miss Cantelo; Let their celestial Concerts all unite-Chorus.
Cast
Role: Kings shall be thy nursing fathers Actor: Grand Chorus

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Cast
Role: Kings shall be thy nursing fathers Actor: Grand Chorus

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3 Entirely selected from The Messiah

Music: As17900219

6058
08 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Dance: End II: As17891013; End: The Guardian Outwitted (1st time at this theatre)-Byrne, Boyce, Ratchford, the two Miss Simonets. [This was 1st performed at the king's, 11 Jan. 1783, as Le Tuteur Trompe.

6059
23 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Dance: As17900308

Entertainment: MonologuePrevious: his being the Anniversary of His Majesty's Happy Recovery, British Loyalty; or, a Squeeze for St. Paul's-Bannister Jun

Song: After which: the Stage being decorated and illuminated in the same Superb Stile which it was for the Reception of his Majesty on Dec. the 16 last, God save the King-Dignum, Sedgwick, Alfred, Danby, Fawcett, Haymes, Hollingsworth, Lyons, Maddocks, Phillimore

6060
04 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The College Of Physicians; Or, Doctor Last's Examination

Afterpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Song: End II 2nd piece: The Greenwich Pensioner-Dignum

6061
18 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: Taste; or, Frolicks of Fancy

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Entertainment: Monologue. Previous: British Loyalty, as17900423; to conclude with: God save the King-Dignum, Williames, Danby

6062
24 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: An Harmonic Festival

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: End II: a Nicketerotion at the Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra-; Vocal Parts-Bannister, Johnstone, Darley, Duffey, Mrs Warrell, Mrs Masters, Mrs Gray, Mrs Mountain

Dance: With Grand Dance-Byrne, the two Miss Simonets

6063
08 June 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

6064
16 July 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: A Merry Sketch of Folly and Fashion

6065
03 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid 1@2 yrs Kings Taxes for Theatre #84 2s. 6d. Receipts: #146 3s. 6d. (140.3.6; 6.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: End I in V: As17901020; In afterpiece: Dancing, as17901123

6066
22 February 1791 @ Pantheon, Oxford Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Armida

Ballet: Amphion et Thalie. As17910217

6067
26 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

6068
11 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 From The Works Of Handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

6069
11 March 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music, From The Works Of Handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

6070
23 March 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Second Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music, From The Works Of Handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: PART II. Overture and Dead March-(Saul); In sweetest harmony-Mrs Billington, Chorus (Saul); Gentle Airs-Harrison; [accompanied on the violoncello-C. Ashley (Athalia); The smiling dawn-Miss Poole (Jephtha); Fallen is the foe-Chorus (Judas Maccabaeus); Blooming virgins-Incledon (Athalia); He smote all the First@born-Chorus (Israel in Egypt); O magnify the Lord-Mrs Billington ([Chandos] Anthems); Kings shall be thy nursing fathers-Chorus (Coronation Anthems).
Cast
Role: Kings shall be thy nursing fathers Actor: Chorus

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: PART III. Eleventh Grand Concerto-; Pleasure my former ways resigning-Harrison (Time and Truth); No more shall Edom's sons-Miss Poole (Israel in Babylon); O Baal monarch of the skies-Chorus (Deborah); His hideous love, Love sounds the alarm-Incledon (Acis and Galatea); O Father whose Almighty power-Chorus; O let eternal honours, From mighty Kings-Mrs Billington (Judas Maccabaeus); Fix'd in his everlasting seat-Chorus (Samson).
Cast
Role: From mighty Kings Actor: Mrs Billington

6071
25 March 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast; Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: Alexander's Feast 1

Afterpiece Title: Alexander's Feast 2

Afterpiece Title: PART III

6072
26 March 1791 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments Of Music And Dancing

Dance: End I: Divertisement-Vestris? Jun., Victor, Vermilly, Mlle Hilligsberg, Mlle Mozon, Mlle Dorival; End II: Orpheus and Eurydice-Vestris? Jun., Victor, Vermilly, Mlle Hilligsberg, Mlle Mozon, Mlle Dorival

6073
01 April 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea 0; Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea 1

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea 2

Afterpiece Title: PART III

Music: As17910323

6074
06 May 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: End: Cou'd a Man be secure-Dignum, Sedgwick

6075
14 May 1791 @ Pantheon, Oxford Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Molinarella

Dance: End I: the new Divertissement-[i.e. Le Triomphe de la Folie, as17910503]; End Opera: La Fille Mal Gardee, as17910430