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703 results for: Keyword - Handel's
We found 291 matches on Event Comments, 196 matches on Performance Title, 184 matches on Performance Comments, 77 matches on Author, and 73 matches on Roles/Actors.

51
17 April 1762 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Disfatta Di Dario

52
10 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gideon

53
02 February 1770 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Performance Comment: Act I: Overture, Oriona; Song-Sga Piatti; Concerto Bassoon-Baumgarten; Song-Blanchi; Song-Sga Guglielmi; Act II: Concerto Flute-Tacet; Song-Tenducci; Solo Violino-Nofferi; Song-Grassi; Duet-Tenducci, Sga Guglielmi; Act III: Concerto Violincello-Cirri; Song-Tenducci; Concerto Hautboy-Fischar; Song-Sga Guglielmi; Quintetto-; Second of Handel's Hautboy Concertos-.
Cast
Role: Second of Handel's Hautboy Concertos Actor: .

54
18 March 1784 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Regina Di Golconda

Dance: Three new ballets composed by D'Aubcrval. End of Act I Ballet [of Warriors] by Lepicq, Henry, Zuchelli, the two Miss Simonets, Mme Theodore; End of Act II Dance [of Shepherds] by Lepicq, Mme Simonet, D'Aubcrval (1st appearance), Mme Rossi, Vestris [Jun.], Mme Theodore; End of Opera The Four Ages of Man, in which a Pas de Trois of Chinese by Henry, Zuchelli, Blake. Childhood-the two Miss Simonets; Youth-Slingsby and Mme Theodore; Manhood-Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Vestris [Jun.]; Old Age-D'Auberval and Mme Simonet, who will dance to the celebrated Musette of Handel. To conclude with a Pas de Huit, in a stile entirely new, by the Couples who represent the Four Ages

55
06 March 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Prelude

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea Triumph of Truth 0

Afterpiece Title: A Miscellaneous Concert

Music: End I: serenata solo on harp-Mme Krumpholtz (2nd appearance in this Kingdom)

56
17 March 1733 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Performance Comment: Edition of 1733 does not list performers' names, but Daily Advertiser, 20 March, states: Wherein Principal Parts-Signor Senosini, Signora Strada, Signora Gismundi, Signora Bertoldi, Signor Montagnana, Miss Young, Miss Arne, Mrs Wright, Mr Swartzs[, perform'd the principal Parts. [See also Deutsch, Handel, p. 308, and Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 236.], perform'd the principal Parts. [See also Deutsch, Handel, p. 308, and Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 236.]

57
24 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Performance Comment: Samson-Beard; Dalila-Signora Francesina; Micah-Signora Francesina, Sullivan; Harapha-Reinhold; Israelite Woman-Signora Avolio (Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 351). Mrs Delany to Mrs Dewes, 25 Feb.: Francesina sings most of Mrs Cibber's parts and some of Mrs Clive's. [See Deutsch, Handel, p. 585.]See Deutsch, Handel, p. 585.]

58
18 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A New Oratorio. Tickets will be deliver'd to subscribers (on paying their Subscription money), this day, and every day following at Mr Handel's in Brook Street, near Hanover Square. Attendance will be given from 9 o'clock in the Morning till Three in the Afternoon. Pit and Boxes to be put together and no persons to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd that day at the Office in Covent Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each, First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. N.B. Each subscriber is to pay Six Guineas upon taking out his subscription ticket, which entitles him to three Box tickets every night of Mr Handel's first six performances in Lent; and if Mr. Handel should have any more performances after his first six nights, each subscriber may continue on the same conditions. The Gallery will be open'd at Four O'Clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. [These notices concerning price, subscription, and time of performance recur regularly, but will not be recorded further here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

59
15 November 1743 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Roxana Or Alexander In India

60
10 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Performance After the manner of an Oratorio Set by Mr Handel. Tickets will be deliver'd to subscribers on paying their subscription money, this day and every day following at Mr Handel's House in Brook Street, near Hanover Square, where attendance will be given from nine o'clock in the Morning till three in the afternoon. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no person to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office in the theatre at Half a Guinea each, First Gallery 5s.; Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. [Customary notice which will not be repeated.] Gallery opened at Four o'clock, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six. Mrs Delany to Mrs Dewes: There is a four-part song that is delightfully pretty...there was no disturbance at the playhouse. -Delany, Autobiography, II, 262. [Libretto by Congreve.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semele

61
02 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joseph And His Brethren

Performance Comment: Pharaoh-Reinhold, bass; Joseph-Sullivan, alto; Reuben-Reinhold, bass; Simeon-Beard, tenor; Asenath-Signora Francesina, soprano; Phanor-Signora Galli, mezzosoprano (Deutsch, Handel, pp. 586-67), Esther Young (Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 407); Benjamin-Samuel Champness (Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 407).

Music: Concerto on the Organ-

62
27 March 1745 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Belshazzar

Performance Comment: Belshazzar-Beard, tenor; Nitocris-Signora Francesina, soprano; Cyrus-Reinhold or Miss Robinson, contralto; Daniel-Miss Robinson,contralto; Gobrias-Reinhold, bass; Arioch-, tenor; Messenger-, bass. (Deutsch, Handel, p. 610; Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 454.) Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 454.)

63
14 February 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd that day at the office at cg theatre, at half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at half an hour after Four o'clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at half an hour after Six. The Subscribers who favoured Mr Handel last season with their subscription, are desired to send to the office at cg on the day of the performance, where two tickets shall be deliver'd to each Gratis, in order to make good the Number of Performances subscrib'd to last season. [Recitative and chorus. Words taken from Milton and Spenser (Edition of 1746). Rehearsed at Handel's lodgings on 7 Feb. Burney and DeFesch in orchestra. (Deutsch, Handel, pp. 629-30.) Librettist not known, possibly Thomas Morell.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The New Occasional Oratorio

64
23 February 1732 @ Crown and Anchor Tavern

Event Comment: A private performance. For details, see Deutsch, Handel, pp. 285-86, Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, pp. 203-204, and Egmont, Diary, I, 225

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Performance Comment: Esther-John Randall; Assuerus-James Butler; Haman-John Moore; Mordecai-John Brown; Priest of the Israelites-John Beard; Harbonach-Price Cleavely; Persian Officer-James Allen; First Israelite-James Butler; Second Israelite-James Allen; Israelite Boy-John Brown; Israelites and Officers-Samuel Howard, ThomasBarrow, Robert Denham (Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 204).

65
19 February 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Alexander

66
11 March 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Time And Truth

67
14 May 1723 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius

68
20 February 1724 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

69
26 February 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the Best Masters from the Opera House. [According to Mrs Pendarves, Holcomb sang six songs; there were overtures by Handel and two concertos by Corelli.

70
02 April 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

71
18 May 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido

72
08 January 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariodante

73
15 March 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba Or Hannibals Overthrow

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Music: Handel's Water Musick, with Preamble on Kettle Drum by Benj. Baker

Dance: La Coquette Francoise by Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Le Sac, Miss Baston, Delagarde, Mrs De l'Orme

Song: Tippling Philosophers by Leveridge

74
28 March 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 238, conjectures: Deborah-Signora Strada; Barak-Carestini; Jael-Miss Cecilia Young; Priest of Baal-Hussey, with Reinhold and Beard possibly singing also. With a new Concerto on the Organ;..

Afterpiece Title: the two Concertos in the Oratorio of Esther

75
06 May 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Music: Handel's Overture to Ariadne

Dance: The Flanderkins by Duke and Mrs Ogden. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. Harlequin by Miss Norsa Jr. Scot's Dance, as17350311

Song: As17350422