SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Penkethmans New Theatre in Greenwich"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Penkethmans New Theatre in Greenwich")') 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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We found 8123 matches on Event Comments, 3410 matches on Performance Comments, 3175 matches on Performance Title, 19 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Performance Comment: See dl 6 Dec. 1707, but Metius (with several new Select Songs added)-Gioseppi Cassani, lately arrived from Italy.

Dance: Cherrier, Debargues, Mrs Debargues, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Evans, others

Event Comment: [Words from the Italian of G. B. Neri. Music by Francesco Conti and others.] A new Opera. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. Stage Boxes 15s. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: Clotilda

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With an entire set of new Scenes, Painted by two famous Italian Painters (lately arriv'd from Venice) and all the other Decorations that were represented in the Opera of Clotilda. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into the boxes

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Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: With an addition of a whole new Scene, consisting of Three Songs, compos'd by Signior Scarlatti, and perform'd by the famous Signior Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. The Scenes, as 2 April. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission to pit and boxes by Printed tickets only. Stage boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: As17090507, but Gravedigger-Underhill; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And several new Decorations of Scenes and Machines never shewn before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Music: With all the Vocal and Instrumental Musick-

Dance: Dances proper to the Play-

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And several new Decorations of Scenes and Machines

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Entertainment: Higgins

Music: As17091128

Dance: As17091128

Event Comment: With several new Decorations of Scenes and Machines

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Music: As17091128

Dance: As17091128

Entertainment: Higgins

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrid

Performance Comment: As17100109, but Ordgar-a Young Gentleman, a Friend of the Author's, who is pleas'd to Act it for his own diversion; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Event Comment: A Practice of the new Opera in Form; to begin exactly at Six a Clock. [See also 2 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Practice Of An Opera [hydaspes

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolini. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. With all the Scenes and Decorations of the last new Opera of Almahide. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by printed Tickets, at a half guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 15 April, a new play, The Force of Friendship, had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Event Comment: With an entire new Scene, consisting of Four Songs Compos'd by Signior Scarlatti, and Sung by Signior Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. For the Entertainment of the Four Indian Kings [but see dl]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almahide

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 12 May, but not later, two afterpieces-The Walking Statue and (new) The Twin Venturers-had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caius Marius

Event Comment: With the Addition of a New Cascade Scenev after the Italian Manner. Receipts: #124 1s. 3d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit the Baroness. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. With a new Cantata after the Italian Manner. Admission as 7 April

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit the Little Child that Dances with the Swords. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With new Scenes, Machines, and several Dances by Fairies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairy Queen

Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never acted before. The Whole Play being new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure

Event Comment: Henry Cromwell to Alexander Pope, 7 Dec.: We have had a poor comedy of Johnson's (not Ben) which held seven nights, and has got him three hundred pounds, for the town is sharpset on new plays (Pope, I, 136)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

Event Comment: [By Niccola Haym. Apparently never printed.] Colman's Opera Register: A new Pastorall Opera called Dorinda. The musick of this is taken out of Severall Italian operas by Nico Haym. In this Sigra Margarita had no part. The other Singers the same as in the former [The Faithful Shepherd], the Same Scene & Habits also & the same prices. It was performed 4 times on the opera days successively

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. And the principal Characters new Dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Event Comment: With all the New Scenes and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

Event Comment: Benefit Cavaliero Valeriano Pellegrini. With an Addition of several new Songs, particularly an English one sung by Signor Cavaliero Valeriano Pellegrini. Admission as 21 March. [Valeriano received #73 19s. See Deutsch, p. 59.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

Event Comment: [Dedication signed by N. Haym.]. A new Opera. Pit and Boxes put together and admission by ticket only at half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Croesus

Music: As17140123

Event Comment: Above half the Songs being New. Admission as 27 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

Music: A Solo-Veracini