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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "His Majesty\'s Comedians"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "His Majesty\'s Comedians")') 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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1364 results for: Keyword - His Majesty's Comedians
We found 1257 matches on Event Comments, 80 matches on Performance Comments, 35 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

776
27 March 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Publish'd this day Acis and Galatea, a Serenata. To be perform'd at Covent Garden. Music by Handel. Price 1s. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: Drydens Ode

Music: As17670306

777
28 March 1767 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Carattaco

778
01 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Music: As17670306

779
03 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: As17670306

780
08 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. This day Publish'd an Oratorio: The Messiah, the Music composed by Handel. Neville MS Diary: The house very full, being the last this season. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17670306

781
10 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17670306

782
07 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: End: The Lilliputian Camp, as17670227

783
28 September 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Cancelled. On account of death of Edward Augustus, Duke of York, next Brother to His Majesty. [Theatre closed to 5 Oct.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

784
27 October 1767 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: New Dances, new Clothes, new Decorations. A new serious Opera; music by several celebrated Composers. Pit and Boxes put together and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at Half a Guinea each; First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. Gallery, Pit, and Boxes open at Five. By their Majesties Command, no Person whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes or into the Orchestra. 6:30 p.m. Vivant Rex et Regina. [Notice repeated in the bills.] [Messrs. Vincent and Gordon, Managers of the Operas had noted (Public Advertiser, 9 Sept.) their engagement of singers: For the Serious Opera: Guarducci, first Man; Signora Campolini, first Woman; Savoi, second Man; Signora Querzioli, second Woman; Signora Piatti, third Woman; Michelli The Comic Opera: Lovattini, first Man; Signora Guadagni, first Woman; Savoi, serious Man; Signora Querzoli, serious Woman; Moriggi (Bass); Signora Piatti, third Woman; Michelli. Also engaged: Guglielmi and Alessandri, Composers; Pugniani, first Violin; Signora Coradini a new Dancer.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tigrane

785
14 December 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By command of their Majesties. Did not go to see Garrick play Archer that I might avoid the abhorred sight of George and his family (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Dance: IV: The Lilliputian Camp, as17671202

786
19 December 1767 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sifare

787
09 January 1768 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola Maritata

788
11 January 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Shuter, Mrs King

789
21 January 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widowd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: II: New Comic Dance, as17680116

790
25 January 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Ford, 1st time; IV: The Merry Sailors, as17671009; V: A New Comic Dance, as17671021

791
28 January 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Afterpiece Title: Flora

792
29 January 1768 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

793
06 February 1768 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ifigenia In Aulide

794
08 February 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

795
13 February 1768 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Schiava

796
15 February 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

797
19 February 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. Tickets will be deliver'd this day at the Office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries will be opened at Half an Hour after Four. Pit and Boxes at Five. To Begin at Half after Six. House Charges to Stanley and Smith #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: CConcerto on Organ-Stanley

798
24 February 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast With The Coronation Anthems

Music: Some additional song-Guarducci

799
26 February 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Music: As17680219

800
29 February 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: The Wake, as17680220