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We found 4263 matches on Event Comments, 1156 matches on Performance Comments, 533 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 4 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: CCatherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 18 April: These oratorios of Handel's are certainly (next to the hooting of owls) the most solemly striking music one can hear....In this last oratorio he has literally introduced guns, and they have a good effect.--Deutsch, Handel, p. 640, who identifies the guns as kettle-drums. But Winton Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 471, identifies them as the outsize drums from the Tower of London. See Sheridan's The Critic on off-stage gun shots: This hint I took from Handel. Recced of Mr Handell for rent of his 10 Oratorio's #210.--Account Books, Egerton 2268. [Actually there were twelve nights of oratorios.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Event Comment: At Mr Ogle's Great Room, Dean St., Soho. A Pastoral Opera [by John Hoadley] set by Dr Green. To begin at 7 p.m. Tickets 5s. Books of the Opera at places of Performance at 6d. Benefit for Robinson, organist of Westminster Abbey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phoebe

Event Comment: At the Great Room, Dean St., Soho. By Mr Handel. Benefit for Signora Frasi. Tickets Half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow Gentlewoman in great Distress. To begin at half an hour past Six. A greater number of Tickets being disposed of than Mr Hickford's Room can contain, makes it necessary to remove the performance to Dean St. Books of the Serenata will be sold at the place of performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: First Violin-Brown; Second Violin-Froud; First Violoncello-Gordon; Harpsichord-Cooke; Between I and II: a Concerto on Hautboy-Vincent

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets and Places to be had of Smith, at his house, opposite the concert room in Dean Street, Soho, and of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes, where servants will be allowed to keep places. N.B. No building on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Entertainment: fter the Masque will be presented the Humours of the Age-in imitation of Shakespeare's STAGES by Smith

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for the Fund, established for the Relief of those Performers who, through Infirmity, shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. The Theatrical Fund was established in 1765, under the auspices of the late Mr Beard and Mrs Rich; and received the sanction of Parliament in 1776. There are now, and have been for more than 20 years, several Annuitants supported by it, chiefly families and widows. Yet notwithstanding it has been so long set on foot, the interest arising from the Funded Capital has never been equal to defraying one half of the annual disbursements. The deficiencies have been continually supplied by progressive weekly contributions from the performers. When this is considered, it is respectfully presumed the generosity of a British Public will be exerted this night in favour of so liberal and beneficial an institution. Thomas Hull, Treasurer. Tickets to be had of Hull, Treasurer to the Institution, No. 7, Duke's-Court, near Dean's Yard, Westminster. Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

Entertainment: MonologueEnd: The Barber's Petition, as17960506; with Wigs, as17960506

Event Comment: On this day Luttrell purchased a copy (Bindley Collection, William Andrew Clark@Jr@Library) of The Beggars Delight As it was Sung at the Theatre Royal, published in 1684 by J. Dean

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Dean and Keene

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-the best Masters

Event Comment: Benefit Dean. At 7 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters

Event Comment: Benefit I. Delagarde, At the Desire of several Ladies of Distinction. [Tickets at Delagarde's Lodgings, at Mrs Stafford's, in Dean Street, Fetter Lane,]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: II: Clown-Vallois; IV: Two Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde; V: The last new Grand Ballet-Haughton, Mlle Roland,

Song: I: French Horn Song-Miss Jones; III: Singing in Italian-Mrs Chambers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performance Comment: for a conjectural cast, see Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 178. With Concertos on the Organ-; and other Instruments-; And a Concerto-Signior Veracini.
Event Comment: RRoyal family attended.-Deutsch, Handel, p. 561. The new Oratorio...has been performed four Times to more crouded Audiences than ever were seen; more People being turned away for Want of Room each Night than hath been at the Italian Opera.-Quoted by Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 350, from Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 15 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

Music: Solo on Violin-Dubourg

Event Comment: New Dormitory in Dean's Yard, Westminster. Mainpiece: of Terence...acted with great applause by the Scholars to a crowded audience.--Daily Advertiser, 28 Nov

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phormio

Event Comment: The Second Night [sung in Italian (Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 239)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Music: Concerto on the Organ-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semele

Performance Comment: (See Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 393, for probable cast.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Performance Comment: Micah-Miss Robinson (Dean, p. 351).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Saul

Performance Comment: but see suggested cast in Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, pp. 299-300.
Event Comment: Benefit Leonardo Pescatore...a Serenata. Music entirely new and composed by himself, 7 p.m., 5s. Tickets at the Mews Coffee House, Charing Cross; at Pescatore's, No 2, Meard's Court, Dean St., Soho. [And a long letter by Pescatore offering to give lessons on the harsichord and wounded by public suspicion of his loyalty.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Forza De L'amore

Event Comment: [For full discussion see Winton Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, chapt. 21.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander Balus

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Turner at the Great Room, Dean St., Soho. Oratorio composed by Dr Boyce. To begin at 7:00 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Solomon

Event Comment: Benefit for Philidor at the Great Room, Dean St. Soho. Tickets 5s. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Power Of Harmony

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Passerini. [From charges and countercharges published in great length in the Public Advertiser, it appears that Sga Frasi had earlier arranged to produce Samson at the King's on this night for her benefit. Learning that the subscribers to the opera season could enter on their own tickets on this night she decided to change nights to avoid any losses, only to find that her singers were engaged at one theatre or another on other nights. Meanwhile, Signor Passerini got permission to have this night scheduled at King's for his wife's benefit, and Sga Frasi lost out all around. Passerini asserted that the charge for renting the Great Room, Dean St. Soho was 5 guineas for a night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone

Event Comment: By Handel. Benefit for Miss Turner. Oratorios by Handel. At the Great Room, Dean St., Soho. To begin at 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Song: I: Praise the Lord- accompanied by Parry

Music: II: Concerto (Arne) on Harpsichord-Miss Turner

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Passerini at the Great Room, Dean Street, Soho. N.B. The Pastoral will precede the Oratorio. The Pastoral, by Desire. The overture and greatest part of which composed by his Majesty the King of Prussia. Mainpiece by Handel. Tickets for the 29th will be taken. Tickets at half a guinea for the Pit, and 5s. for the Gallery. To begin at 6:30 p.m. [The Pastoral is not named in the Bill, but from comment on its musical composer is deemed to be Charlottenburg Festegiante. See 16 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: Charlottenburg Festegiante

Event Comment: By Desire and Consent of Frederic Handel, Esq. Afterpiece: Musick composed by his Majesty the King of Prussia. Pit half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. At the Great Room, Dean St., Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: Charlottenburg Festegiante