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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mons de Voltaire"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mons de Voltaire")') 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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1835 results for: Keyword - Mons de Voltaire
We found 1027 matches on Performance Title, 481 matches on Performance Comments, 271 matches on Author, 229 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1801
18 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

1802
25 January 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

1803
31 March 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

1804
16 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

1805
28 August 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir John Cockle, At Court

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost; or, The Man Bewitch'd

Song: End 2nd piece: the new Four@and@twenty Fiddlers all on a Row-Edwin

Entertainment: Monologue End: Lingo's Opinions on Men and Manners (a Comical, Whimsical, Operatical, Farcical Rhapsody)-Edwin

1806
03 December 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

1807
01 March 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Tantara Rara, Rogues All

Dance: End: New Divertisement-[see17880124]

1808
25 March 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

1809
24 October 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: As17881013

1810
21 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Comus

1811
15 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Entertainment: Monologue End: (for that night only) Collins's Ode on the Passions-Mrs Esten

1812
14 May 1791 @ Pantheon, Oxford Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Molinarella

Dance: End I: the new Divertissement-[i.e. Le Triomphe de la Folie, as17910503]; End Opera: La Fille Mal Gardee, as17910430

1813
23 June 1791 @ Pantheon, Oxford Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Bella Pescatrice

Dance: End I: the New Divertissement i.e. Le Triomphe de la Folie, as17910503; End Opera: Telemachus in the Island of Calypso, as17910414

1814
23 January 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

1815
18 April 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. [1st piece: Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews.] 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, by Eliza Parsons, based on Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, by Moliere]. Morning Herald, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 8, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #269 11s. 6d. (174.14.0; 4.16.6; tickets: 90.1.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival; or, The Night before the Battle

Afterpiece Title: The Intrigues of a Morning; or, An Hour in Paris

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

1816
29 September 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

1817
20 December 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Museum; or, Mother Shipton Triumphant

1818
19 November 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: WHO's THE DUPE

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts by Dignum, Sedgwick, Caulfield, Cooke, Lyons, Dorion Sen. and Jun., Dibble, Willoughby, Walker, Brown, Saunders, Welsh, Burden//Mrs Bland, Miss De Camp, Mrs Stuart, Miss Menage, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Hale. In Act V the Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Sedgwick//Amphitrite-Mrs Stuart

1819
11 January 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

1820
18 March 1794 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Capriccio Drammatico

Afterpiece Title: LA BELLA PESCATRICE

Dance: As17940311hroughout

1821
14 May 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

1822
06 June 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: No SONG No SUPPER

1823
09 June 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: LODOISKA

1824
06 April 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rage

Cast
Role: Groom Actor: Simmons

Afterpiece Title: Windsor Castle 1

Afterpiece Title: Windsor Castle 2

Song: Part I: concludes with ancient British Airs-; Chorus of Bards-, accompanied on the Harp by Jones

1825
05 November 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Olympus in an Uproar; or, The Descent of the Deities

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Munden; Mercury-Townsend; Momus-Simmons; Paris-Incledon; Juno-Mrs Addison; Pallas-Mrs Clendining; Erynnis-Mr Delpini (1st appearance these 7 years); Iris-Mrs Castelle; Venus-Mrs Mountain; A Description of Part of the Scenery, Machinery. ACT I. The Palace Garden, and Canal of Tyndarus. The introduction of Leda and the Swan. Leda-Mlle St.Amand. The Hesperean Dragon spouting Fire, pursuing Erynnis to recover the Golden Pippin. A Celestial Palace, with a Magnificent Temple, and the Peacock of Juno in Transparency. ACT II. A Plain in Phoenicia, in which Jupiter descends from the Heavens on an Eagle, and Momus on a Goose. A Procession to a Sacrifice. Jupiter in the form of a Bull, bearing Europa, attended by a train of Priests, Virgins, Nymphs, Shepherds. The Sea, with a distant View of the Isle of Crete. Jupiter bearing Europa across the Sea. A View of Mount Idav The Decree of Paris, and the Ascent and Descent of the Deities: Vulcan, Apollo, Mars, Hercules, Bacchus, Pan, Ceres, Diana, Cybele, Flora, Pomona, Proserpine, Hebe. Mercury descends on a Cloud, and Iris on a Rainbow. Pluto rises from the Infernal Regions in a Chariot drawn by Dragons; Neptune in a watery Car, borne by Sea Horses; and Jupiter descends in a Cloud, attended by Hebe and Ganymede. To conclude with the Re-ascent of Jupiter attended by Flying Cupids.
Cast
Role: Momus Actor: Simmons