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1780 results for: Keyword - G. F. Handel
We found 648 matches on Event Comments, 536 matches on Author, 486 matches on Performance Comments, 260 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1151
12 January 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Admission as 7 Nov. Daily Journal, 14 Jan.: On Saturday Night, his Majesty was at the Opera...and Signiora Catzoni, newly arrived from Italy, perform'd for the first Time, to the Surprize and admiration of the Audience, which was very numerous. [See also London Journal and British Journal, 12 and 19 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

1152
15 January 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. M De Fabrice to Count Flemming, 15 Jan. (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 147): Today is the second performance and there is such a run on it that tickets are already being sold at 2 and 3 guineas which are ordinarily half a guinea. London Journal, 19 Jan.: Last Tuesday being the second Time of Madam Cotzoni's Performance, we hear that Opera Tickets sold that Day and the preceding, at 4 Guineas each

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

1153
12 March 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signiora Margherita Durastanti. And particular Care will be taken to place Benches on the Stage for the Accommodation of the Company. N.B. Whereas the Benefit for Signiora Durastanti is Part of her Contract, the Directors of the Royal Academy of Musick resolve not to make use of the Liberty of the House for that Night. [This benefit brought her nearly a thousand pounds.-Deutsch, Handel, p. 160.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

1154
17 March 1724 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Margherita Durastanti. Particular Care will be taken to Place Benches on the Stage for the Accommodation of the Company. [According to Deutsch, Handel, p. 160, her benefit brought her #1,000, in addition to a salary of 1,200 guineas yearly. The Cantata is printed in the Daily Journal, 18 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

1155
13 February 1725 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by A. Salvi, altered by Haym. Music by Handel.] Admission as 31 Oct. 1724

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rodelinda

1156
08 February 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King, Prince and Princess of Wales present. Universal Mercury, February 1726: Mr Handel had the Satisfaction of seeing an old Opera of his not only fill the House, which had not been done for a considerable time before, but People crowding so fast to it, that above 300 were turn'd away for want of room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

1157
12 March 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Rolli. Music by Handel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Scipio

1158
05 May 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Rolli. Music by Handel.] At 7 p.m. Daily Journal, 7 May: On Thursday Night, Signiora Faustina, the famous Roman Songstress, performed his Majesty, their Royal Highnesses, and great Numbers of the Nobility and Quality, in...Alexander...with great Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Related Works
Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

1159
31 January 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Text possible by Haym or Rolli. Le Nuove Scene sone del Sigr Giuseppe Goupy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

1160
29 April 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a long letter on operatic affairs, see Deutsch, Handel, pp. 207-8

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

1161
11 November 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Music by Handel.] Admission by Ticket only (not more than 400) at half a guinea. Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard The First King Of England

1162
17 February 1728 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Text by Haym.] The King, Queen, Princess Amelia, and Princess Carolina present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

1163
30 April 1728 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy

1164
02 December 1729 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text altered from A. Salvi. Music by Handel.] Pit and Boxes by Tickets only at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m. [Customary notices.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lotharius

1165
09 December 1729 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a comment on this performance, see Rolli to Riva, 11 Dec., in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 249-50

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lotharius

1166
24 February 1730 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by S. Stampigli. Music by Handel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parthenope

1167
04 April 1730 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [By Zeno. Music probably by Bartholmeo Cordans.-see Deutsch, Handel, p. 254.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ormisda

1168
19 May 1730 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy

Performance Comment: Deutsch, Handel, p. 254 lists: Tolomeo-Bernacchi; Seleuce-Signora Strada; Elisa-Signora Merighi; Alessandro-Signora Bertolli; Araspe-Fabri.

1169
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

1170
04 May 1731 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [For a reconstruction of the cast, see Deutsch, Handel, p. 274. Their Majesties present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rodelinda

1171
07 December 1731 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

Performance Comment: Wherein Signora Bagnolesi, lately arrived from Italy, is to perform; but 2d edition of 1731 lists: Admeto-Senesino; Alceste-Signora Anna Bagnolesi; Hercules-Gio. Battista Pinacci; Trasimede-Antonio Guaxandi called Campioli; Antignona-Signora Anna StradadelPo; Meraspe-Antonio Montagnana. See also Deutsch, Handel, p. 278.
Cast
Role: Meraspe Actor: Antonio Montagnana. See also Deutsch, Handel, p. 278.

1172
15 January 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Translation by Samuel Humphreys.] Wherein the Cloaths and Scenes are all entirely New. Colman's Opera Register: But did not draw much Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aetius

1173
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

1174
17 March 1732 @ Chancery Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: When the fine Overture compos'd by the late ingenious Mr William Babell, for St. Cecilia's Day, will be perform'd with Trumpets, Hautboys, Violins, and Bassoons, with several other Pieces of Mr Handel's Composition, for Trumpets, French Horns by the best Masters. I: Mr Wm. Babell's Overture-; Overture Ptolomy-; Concerto Violin-; Hautboys Solo-; Concerto French Horns-; II: Overture Siroe-; Solo Flute-; Concerto Hautbois-; Seventh Concerto Corelli-; Concerto French Horns-; Several flute Pieces-Mr John Baston

Performance Comment: Cecilia's Day, will be perform'd with Trumpets, Hautboys, Violins, and Bassoons, with several other Pieces of Mr Handel's Composition, for Trumpets, French Horns by the best Masters. I: Mr Wm. Babell's Overture-; Overture Ptolomy-; Concerto Violin-; Hautboys Solo-; Concerto French Horns-; II: Overture Siroe-; Solo Flute-; Concerto Hautbois-; Seventh Concerto Corelli-; Concerto French Horns-; Several flute Pieces-Mr John Baston.

1175
18 April 1732 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius

Performance Comment: For possible cast see Deutsch, Handel, p. 288.