SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr and Mrs Knight"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr and Mrs Knight")') 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 23639 matches on Performance Comments, 7642 matches on Event Comments, 4769 matches on Performance Title, 81 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter, who is on her Recovery from a severe Feaver. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Barbier. Admission to pit and boxes by ticket only at half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antiochus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

Performance Comment: singers included Cavaliero Valeriano, Valentini Urbani, Signora Pilotta Schivaonetti, Mrs Barbier, Leveridge.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. And at the Desire of several Ladies of Quality the Pit and Boxes will be put together, and no Persons to be admitted but by printed Tickets...at 4s. N.B. The Tickets delivered out for the Pit, will be taken at the Gallery, and accounted for, at the Price of the Gallery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bicknell. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. As 14 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard The Third

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. Admission to Pit and Boxes by printed ticket only, at the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. Pit and Boxes put together with admission by ticket only at half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminius

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Celotti. At the Request of several Persons of Quality. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Hands of the Opera

Event Comment: Admission as 26 Oct. Colman's Opera Register: ye Prince & Princess of Wales present, ye House not near full. Ye New Singers...meet with little applause as yet Mrs Robinson not singing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Smith. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. At 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The first Masters of the Opera

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cross. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [The Way of the World intended, but deferred by Indisposition of a Person who was to play a principal Part.] Receipts: #98 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: Leveridge, Pack, New Boy; Trumpet Song-Rawlins

Dance: As17150404 Also Dutch Skipper, Venetian Dance-delaGarde, Miss Russell

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Moor. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #77 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote, Part Ii

Song: Singing in Italian and English-a Gentlewoman who never appear'd on that Stage before

Dance: As17150425 Also Harlequin and Two Punches, as17150502; Venetian Dance, as17150428

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Spiller. Tickets for Philaster taken this day. Receipts: #58 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: As17150512

Event Comment: Benefit Schoolding and Mrs Rogers. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #59 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage Hater Match'd

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-Leveridge, Reading, New Boy

Dance: As17150512; Swedish Dal Karl and His Wife, as17150509

Event Comment: By Subscription, as 25 May. According to Colman's Opera Register, 28 May, Mrs Robinson was ill and did not perform again during this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Event Comment: By Mrs Mynns. At the Queen's Arm Tavern near the Marshalsea Gate...that celebrated Entertainment....With all the Decorations, Movements, Scenes, Machines, Dances, Musick, &c. to the full Grandeur of what it appear'd Eight Years since in Bartholomew-Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Troy

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Rogers. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #24 18s. 6d. and tickets #45 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Vision

Song: Sing All Ye Muses-Leveridge, Randal

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Santlow. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. The Pit and Boxes together at 5s. each Ticket. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Song: Turner; particularly an English Cantata by Dr Pepusch-

Dance: As17151122

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #14 2s. 6d. and tickets #31 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Dance: As17151029

Event Comment: Benefit Ogden and Mrs Kent. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #9 9s. and tickets #26 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Song: As17160216

Dance: Dancing, as17151029, but _Shaw

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Spiller. Afterpiece: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #17 9s. 6d. and tickets #10 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Song: As17160216

Dance: As17151029

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the late Ingenious Mrs Behn. Receipts: #12 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feigned Courtizans; Or, A Night's Intrigue

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Performance Comment: Advertised but dismissed because of Mrs Barbier's illness.