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5508 results for: Keyword - Henry Purcell
We found 3573 matches on Author, 1281 matches on Performance Title, 713 matches on Performance Comments, 435 matches on Event Comments, and 5 matches on Roles/Actors.

4151
19 June 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ignoramus Or The English Lawyer

Song: Turner, Mrs Bowman; particularly a Purcell Pastoral Dialogue-

Dance: Mimic Song and Country Dance-Mrs Willis

4152
10 July 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Music: With all the Original Music by Purcell-

4153
24 July 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote Part Ii

Song: Turner, Mrs Bowman; particularly Genius of England-; Purcell Pastoral Dialogue-

Dance: The Original Song and Dance by Milkmaids-; The Wedding Dance-Prince, Birkhead

4154
27 December 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats or The Tavern Bilkers

Music: Music By Purcell-Newberry, Lawrence, Jones

Dance: Dupre, Mlle Gautier

4155
05 April 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief

Music: Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Music- by Babel for St. Cecilia's Day; Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Mrs Barbier, Babel's Scholar, who never appear'd on any Stage before

Song: Mad Dialogue by Purcell-Leveridge, Mrs Thurmond

Dance: As17171022

4156
21 May 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Related Works
Related Work: The Clown's Stratagem; or, A New Way to get a Wife Author(s): Henry Carey

Song: Rainton, Mrs Willis, Mrs Bowman; Purcell's Mad Dialogue-

Dance: Shaw, Prince, Wade, Topham, Mrs Younger, Miss Lindar, Weaver's Sons

4157
03 December 1718 @ Globe and Marlborough's Head

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tony Astons Medley

Entertainment: Consisting of select Parts of Comedies-; new Songs-; Prologues-; Epilogues-; Mr Purcell's, other Comical English Dialogues-

4158
07 June 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John

Music: With the Original Shepherd's Musick by Purcell-

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith, Miss Lindar

4159
29 October 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John Or The Libertine Destroyd

Music: Original Shepherd's Musick by Purcell-

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Topham, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock, Miss Teno

4160
09 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune Hunters Or Two Fools Well Met

Song: NNo Kissing At All by Purcell-Leveridge, Salway; Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Barbier

Dance: PPierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; Running Footman's Dance-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre

4161
05 December 1729 @ Crown Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Blow, Purcell; Vocal parts-The King's Choir

4162
19 December 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Song: Cantata of Mr Haydn's-a Gentleman that never appear'd on any Stage before; a Dialogue of Purcell's-that Gentleman, a Youth

4163
13 January 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Clown

Song: A Gentlewoman that never appear'd on this Stage before; End I: An English Opera Song-; accompanied with the German Flute-; II: Pur di Cesti, in Arminius-; III: A Diverting Song-a Gentlewoman of Fourscore; IV: Mad Dialogue of Purcell's-

Music: Music on the German Flute-a Gentleman for his Diversion

4164
03 May 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: Diana and Acteon

Dance: II: Scot's Dance by Mrs Bullock. V: Milk Pail Dance

Song: I: Since Times are so bad (Purcell) by Nichols and Mrs Monlass. III: By Nichols

4165
14 April 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Authors Triumph or The Manager Managd

Dance: End Afterpiece: Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

Song: II: Dialogue by Purcell-the Masters Hamilton; III: Miss Jones; IV: Singing in Italian-Mrs Chambers

4166
18 April 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Song: I: The Lady's Lamentation, as17370414 II: Mr Cowley's Swallow-Beard; III: By Desire, Purcell's famous Dialogue, Since Times are so bad-Leveridge, Salway; V: A new Pastoral, The Agreement-Leveridge, Laguerre, Mrs Wright

4167
21 April 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: A Cantata-Mrs Wright; Caelia has a Thousand Charms (set by Purcell)-Beard; The Agreement-Leveridge, Laguerre, Mrs Wright

Dance: GGrecian Sailors-Glover

4168
22 April 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: (IIn Daily Advertiser) I: Two Pierrots-Lalauze, Nivelon; III: Clown-Nivelon; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Song: (IIn Daily Advertiser)II: A new Cantata-Beard; In III: Chacon a Boire-Leveridge, Salway; IV: Beard; End I Afterpiece: Since Times are so bad (Purcell)-Leveridge, Salway

4169
05 May 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; II: Serious Dance, concluding with a Minuet-the Misses Scott; III: French Peasant-Lalauze; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Music: Select Pieces-

Song: II: A new English Song-Roberts; IV: A new Cantata-Beard; V: Since Times are so Bad (Purcell)-Leveridge, Salway

4170
17 May 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Song: II: A Purcell Dialogue-Masters Hamilton; III: The Early Horn Salutes the Morn-Miss Jones

Dance: V: Clown-Vallois

4171
11 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Song: I: The Truth on Both Sides-Roberts, Miss Hillyard; II: Chancon a Boire-Leveridge, Laguerre; III: By Desire, Purcell's Since Times are so bad-Leveridge, Salway; IV: By particular Desire, The Roast Beef of Old England-Leveridge; V: The Praise of Good English Beer (to the Tune of Trade and Navigation)-Leveridge

Dance: II: Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: Two Pierrots-Lalauze, Nivelon; IV: Grand Ballet, as17380318

4172
18 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Dance: II: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; IV: Grecian Sailors-Glover; V: Ballet-Desse, Miss Kilby

Song: III: Since Times are so bad (Purcell)-Leveridge, Salway

4173
10 May 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: Dutch Skipper-Master Morris; III: A Running Footman-Master Morris; V: The French Peasant-Master Morris

Song: IV: Sing all ye Muses by Purcell-Stitchbury, a gentleman for his first appearance on any stage

4174
21 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Song: II: A New Cantata (compos'd by Mr Arne)-Beard; III: Singing-Master Vernon; IV: The Incantation Song in Dryden's Indian Queen (composed by Purcell)-Beard

4175
11 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Song: I: Sing All Ye Muses (set by Purcell)-Kear, Champness; II, IV: Singing-Fawcett