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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Henry Purcel"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Henry Purcel")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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5187 results for: Keyword - Henry Purcel
We found 3375 matches on Author, 1214 matches on Performance Title, 666 matches on Performance Comments, 391 matches on Event Comments, and 4 matches on Roles/Actors.

4176
11 April 1711 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Performers; Particularly several select Entertainments out of the following English Operas: The Fairy Queen, King Arthur, The Indian Queen, Dioclesian, with the Masque in Timon of Athens; all by that great Master the late Mr Henry Purcell-

4177
08 May 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

4178
08 September 1711 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice; Or, The Female Lawyer

Song: Between the Acts: With several Songs and Dialogues-Teno, Rainton, a Gentlewoman from London, who never perform'd there before; particularly that Celebrated Dialogue of Tell Me Why My Charming Fair by the late famous Mr Henry Purcell-; Mad Dialogue by him-; Also several Opera Songs with Instruments-

4179
06 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth; With The Humours Of sir John Falstaff

4180
07 April 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

4181
18 May 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The 4th: With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

4182
20 December 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine Destroy'd

Music: With the Shepherds' Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcell-

4183
04 April 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Ivth, Part I

Song: Leveridge; A Dialogue-Pack, Cook; A Three/Part Song-Rawlins, Cook, Jones

Related Works
Related Work: The Earl of Essex Author(s): Henry Jones
Related Work: The Heroine of the Cave Author(s): Henry Jones
Related Work: The Cave of Idra Author(s): Henry Jones
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): Henry Carey

Music: A Flute Piece-Mr John Bastion, of his own Composition

Dance: duPre, delaGarde, Moreau, Bovil, Miss Russell, Miss Schoolding

4184
19 July 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

Music: With the Original Vocal and Instrumental Musick , composed by that famous English Master Mr Henry Purcell; The principal Parts-Randall, Renton, Teno, Burkhead, Mrs Willis, Mrs Mills, Miss Booth

Dance:

4185
05 August 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca; Or, The British Worthy

Music: With the Addition of that Celebrated Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcell-Randal, Renton, Teno, Burkhead, Mrs Willis, Mrs Mills, Miss Booth

4186
06 October 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

Music: The Frost Musicout of King Arthur, composed by the late Mr Henry Purcell-Leveridge, Pack, Cook, Reading

Song: Signora Maria Fletcher formerly Menene

Dance: delaGarde, Shaw, Thurmond, Mrs Bullock

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): Henry Carey
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): Henry Carey

4187
03 March 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I With The Humours Of sir John Falstaff

4188
15 March 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Song: Leveridge, Randal, Pack, Mrs Fitzgerald

Dance: As17151104

4189
17 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Dance: As17151029

4190
02 May 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, The Man Hater

Music: In it a Masque of Vocal and Instrumental Musick (compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell)-Leveridge, Cook, Reading, the Boy, Mrs Cross

Song:

Dance: Smith's Daughter who never perform'd on the Stage before

4191
11 May 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Song: As17151028

Dance: As17151122

4192
26 June 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca; Or, The British General

Music: With all the Original Musick by the late Henry Purcell-; Hear Ye Gods of Britain-Turner

4193
02 October 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

4194
20 October 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Song: As17161019

Dance: As17161019

4195
19 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

4196
20 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

4197
21 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

4198
23 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

4199
24 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

4200
08 December 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth