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8193 results for: Keyword - George Frederick Handel, Esq
We found 5876 matches on Author, 1398 matches on Performance Comments, 1216 matches on Event Comments, 378 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6576
08 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. Mrs Pendarves to Mrs Ann Granville, 8 Jan.: I was this morning regaled with Mr Handel's new opera called Arminius, it was rehearsed at Covent Garden.--Delany, Autobiography, I, 587

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

6577
29 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parthenope

Performance Comment: See Deutsch, Handel, p. 424, for cast.

6578
07 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: In the morning Handel's new opera, Justin, was rehearsed. [See Egmont, Diary, II, 342.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

6579
09 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

Performance Comment: Deutsch, Handel, p. 428, believes that Clio-sung bySignora Strada; Cloride-sung bySignora Maria Caterina Negri.

6580
13 April 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Giovanni Alberto Ristori. Music arranged by Handel. Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido

6581
05 July 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Each theatre received #250 from the Prince of Wales as a subsidy. See Deutsch, Handel, p. 439

Performances

6582
18 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: LLord Wentworth to the Earl of Strafford, 19 Jan.: We was at Covent Garden Play House last night, my mother was so good as to treat us with it, and the Dragon of Wantcliff was the farce. I like it vastly and the musick is excessive pretty, and tho it is a burlesque on the operas yet Mr Handel owns he thinks the tunes very well composed....and it has been acted 36 times already and they are always pretty full. The poor operas I doubt go on but badly, for tho every body praises both Cafferielli and the opera yet it has never been full, and if it is not now at first it will be very empty towards the latter end of the winter.--Wentworth Papers, p. 539

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

6583
29 December 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 29 Dec.: Mr Handel has hir'd the Opera-House in the Hay-Market for the Season, and intends to entertain the Town twice every Week with Oratorios

Performances

6584
13 April 1739 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 13 April. Letter: Upon my Arrival in Town three Days ago, I was not a little surpriz'd, to find that Mr Handel's last Oratorio, (Israel in Egypt) which had been performed but once, was advertis'd to be for the last time on Wednesday....I was indeed concern'd, that so excellent a Work of so great a Genius was neglected, for tho' it was a Polite and attentive Audience, it was not large enough I doubt to encourage him in any future Attempt

Performances

6585
26 March 1740 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Performance Comment: Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 212, lists: Esther-Signora Francesina; Ahasuerus-Beard; Haman-Reinhold; Israelite Woman-Mrs Arne; Mordecai-Immyns; Harbonah, Israelite-Corfe; Israelite-Williams.

Music: Witha Concerto on the Organ-; And a new Concerto for several Instruments, never performed but once-

6586
02 April 1740 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two Anthems

Performance Comment: O Sing unto the Lord, My Song shall be Alway-(by Mr Handel).

Afterpiece Title: Davids Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan

6587
10 January 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A New Opera, [Text by Rolli. Music by Handel.] Boxes a half guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Second Gallery 2s. 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deidamia

6588
31 January 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lallegro Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato

Performance Comment: See conjectures in Deutsch, Handel, p. 510. With several New Additions and Concertos on the Organ-; several Instruments-.

6589
28 February 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performance Comment: for a conjectural cast, see Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 178. With Concertos on the Organ-; and other Instruments-; And a Concerto-Signior Veracini.

6590
14 March 1741 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

Performance Comment: By Mr Handel for her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange's Wedding. In which will be introduced A Concerto on the Hautboy-Signior St.Martini; A Concerto on the German Flute-Mr Weideman; a Solo on the Violin-Mr Clegg; a Solo on the Violoncello-Signior Caporale; And a Concerto on the Bassoon-Mr Miller.

6591
21 November 1741 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Handel is set out for Ireland, in order to have Oratorios, etc., at Dublin, this Winter.-Daily Advertiser, 21 Nov

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander In Persia

6592
01 December 1741 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: HHeidegger gets a new leave and license to perform operas at Haymarket Theatre from 8 Dec. 41 to 30 Oct. 45.-Deutsch, Handel, p. 526, from public Record Office L. C. 5@161, p. 97

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander In Persia

6593
19 December 1741 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Penelope

Performance Comment: Monticelli; Amorevoli; Visconti; Muscovita. [Robert Price to Thomas, Earl of Haddington, 19 Dec.--Deutsch, Handel, p. 528.]

6594
23 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: HHorace Walpole to Horace Mann, 24 Feb.: Handel has set up an Oratorio against the Operas and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces [i.e., Kitty Clive] and the singers of Roast Beef [i.e., Lowe] from between the acts at both theatres, with a man with one note in his voice [i.e., Beard] and a girl without ever a one [i.e., Mrs Cibber]; and so they sing.-Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, II, 180

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

6595
31 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Last Oratorio Night this season. [Quatrain from Daily Advertiser printed in this bill defending oratorios against attacks in Universal Spectator; see Deutsch, Handel, p. 565.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: Concerto on Organ-; Violin Solo-DuBourg

6596
16 April 1743 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Universal Spectator today carried an even harsher attack on the theatres as a place to represent oratorios; see Deutsch, Handel, pp. 567-68

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sirbace

6597
07 May 1743 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: JJohn Branson, Steward, to John, Duke of Bedford: The Opera is a bankrupt. The Directors have run out #1600 and called this General Meeting to get the consent of the subscribers to take this debt upon themselves. This I opposed.--Deutsch, Handel, pp. 569-70

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sirbace

6598
19 November 1743 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [The statement, Musick compos'd by Mr. Handel is regularly repeated in the bills for this opera.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Roxana

6599
09 February 1744 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: SStationers Hall, Ludgate St. Benefit Edmund Larken...With all the choruses. Composed by Mr Handel.] Printed Books of the Masque will be given gratis at the place of performance. Tickets at 5s. each. Particular care will be taken to have the Hall well air'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Song: An English and an Italian Song-the sister of the above lady, a child of nine years; the whole to conclude with: the Coronation Anthem God Save the King-; Trumpet-Valentine Snow

6600
21 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Earl of Egmont and Mrs Delany both were present (Deutsch, Handel, p. 588)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Saul

Music: Concerto on Organ-