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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Italians"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Italians")') 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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1328 results for: Keyword - Italians

We found 608 matches on Performance Title, 498 matches on Roles/Actors, 193 matches on Event Comments, 154 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

1126
30 May 1698 @ Pepys's residence

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1127
09 July 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

1128
17 February 1699 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1129
08 September 1701 @ Richmond Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Mr Abell; having had the Honour lately, to Sing to the Nobility and Gentry of Richmond and the Neighbouring Towns, thinks himself bound in Gratitude...to return his most Humble Thanks with a Performance of New Musick, in English, Latin, Italian, French-Mr Abell; &c....being Honour'd and Accompany'd-the Greatest Masters of Europe

1130
24 August 1702 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rope Dancing

Entertainment: they being the greatest Performers of Men, Women and Children that can be found beyond the Seas, so that the World cannot parallize them for Dancing on the Low/Rope, Vaulting on the High/Rope, Walking on the Slack and Sloping Ropes-the Famous Company of Rope-Dancers out-doing all others to that Degree, that it has highly recommended them, both in Bartholomew Fair and May Fair last, to all the best persons of Quality in England. And by all are owned to be the only amazing Wonders of the World, in every thing they do: 'tis there you will see the Italian Scaramouch dancing on the Rope, wiph a Wheel-barrow before him, with two Children and a Dog in it, and with a Duck on his Head; who sings to the Company and causes much Laughter

1131
05 February 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Dance: As17040124

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1132
15 November 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: Between the Acts:

1133
12 February 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Prunella

1134
26 March 1708 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-; viz. A full Piece of the late Mr Henry Purcell-Dean, Holmes, Feiston; A new Set of Airs for the Arch Lute and Violin Composed on purpose by Tho. Dean-; That celebrated Sonata for a Violin and Flute made by the famous Signor Gasperini, and played by him and Paisable often before her Majesty, and at the Theatre,-two young Gentlemen that never Play'd in Publick; who also perform some new Italian Sonatas of the most Eminent Masters in Europe, Double/stopped Solos of the Famous Archangelo Corelli-two young Gentlemen; Singing to the Lute-Dean; Several Pieces for Trumpets Flutes and Haut/boys-; Also Select Airs out of the Operas of Camilla and Thomyris, with their Symphonies-the best Performers

1135
02 March 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Clotilda

1136
02 April 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

1137
14 June 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music ....The orchestra was not very strong, consisting of no more than sixty persons, but it was incomparable-; Signiora Margarita del'Epine; sang, but she was by no means as pleasing as in the opera....She was the only person who sang. The instrumental music was extremely beautiful: Pepusch; who directs everything, and played the thorough-bass, excelled all the others. The violins too could scarce have been better. But most notable of all was a most charming concerto played with Pepusch by a flute and a viol di gamba. The person who plays the flute is a Frenchman called-Paisible; whose equal is not to be found....The second man, who played the viol di gamba with such uncommon excellence, is an Italian called-Signor Pietro

1138
21 June 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

1139
16 December 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

1140
30 December 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marplot

1141
12 May 1711 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

1142
19 July 1712 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Loves Of Baldo And Media

Music: Between the Acts: Concertos-

Dance: Four Scaramouches-; Dutch Skipper-; Miller and his Wife-

1143
12 November 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Love

1144
10 December 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

1145
12 March 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Music: A select Band of the best Masters of Instrumental Musick

1146
20 October 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

1147
05 November 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: Myrtillo

Dance: Dancing Proper to the Masque-Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Miss Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger

1148
04 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Whimsical Death of Harlequin

1149
11 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: La Guinquette; or, Harlequin Turned Tapster

Dance: An Entertainment of Mimick Dancing, call'd, La Caprice-Harlequin (in Imitation of Mlle Provost, the Famous Dancer in the Opera at Paris)

1150
17 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Dido; Dido and Aeneas