SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs Prince"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs Prince")') 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 23428 matches on Performance Comments, 5031 matches on Event Comments, 4632 matches on Performance Title, 427 matches on Author, and 29 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: At Lee-Harper Booth. [The Prince of Wales present on 13 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Female Innocence Or A School For A Wife

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Pietro Metastasio. Done into English by Humphreys. Music presumably by Leonardo Leo.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 145-46. Daily Advertiser, 6 Nov.: There were present a very numerous Audience; and Signora Celeste Gismondi, who lately arriv'd here, perform'd a principal Part in it with universal Applause. We hear that this Opera was not compos'd by Mr Handell, but by some very eminent Master in Italy

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Mainpiece Title: Cato

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

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Mainpiece Title: Cato

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] Colman Opera Register: a full House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Event Comment: Receipts: #64 9s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Cassiope Actor: Mrs Sanderson
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Carter
Role: Medusa Actor: Mrs Wright
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Younger
Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: Done from the French of Moliere. [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

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Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Charke

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: Formerly Compos'd by Mr Handel, and now again Revis'd by him. With several Additions, to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. There will be no Action on the Stage, but the Scenes will represent (in a Picturesque Manner) a Rural Prospect, with Rocks, Groves, Fountains, and Grottos, amongst which will be disposed a Chorus of Nymphs and Shepherds. The Habits and every other Decoration suited to the Subject. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present. See letter from Hill to Handel, in Hill, Works, I, 174-75, and in Deutsch, Handel, p. 299.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Event Comment: As 5 Dec. Prince, Duke, and five Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, Duke, and five Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Event Comment: As 16 Dec. Receipts: #84 11s. 6d. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachem Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Forrester
Role: Sukey Actor: Mrs Templer
Role: Mrs Slammekin Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Dance: As17321219

Event Comment: As 16 Dec. Receipts: #104 17s. 6d. [The Prince, Duke, and two younger Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachem Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Forrester
Role: Sukey Actor: Mrs Templer
Role: Mrs Slammekin Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Dance: As17321219

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Event Comment: As 26 Dec. Receipts: #76 12s. 6d. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachem Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Forrester
Role: Sukey Actor: Mrs Templer
Role: Mrs Slammekin Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Egleton.
Role: Mrs Goodfellow Actor: Mrs Cook

Dance: As17321226

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, Duke, and Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Event Comment: As 26 Dec. 1732. Receipts: #70 17s. 6d. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachem Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Forrester
Role: Sukey Actor: Mrs Templer
Role: Mrs Slammekin Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Egleton.
Role: Mrs Goodfellow Actor: Mrs Cook

Dance: As17321228

Event Comment: As 26 Dec. 1732. Receipts, #79 16s. 6d. [Prince and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachem Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Forrester
Role: Sukey Actor: Mrs Templer
Role: Mrs Slammekin Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Egleton.
Role: Mrs Goodfellow Actor: Mrs Cook

Dance: As17321228

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

Event Comment: [The Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #179 3s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and Three eldest Princesses present.] Daily Advertiser, 5 March: Signora Strada, on Account of whose Indisposition the Run of the new Opera of Orlando was interrupted, continues very ill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 28 March: Their Majesties, together with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses were again...to see Deborah...at which was likewise present one of the most numerous Audiences of Nobility and Persons of Distinction that has been ever seen in any Theatre. Egmont, Diary, I, 345: It was very magnificent, near a hundred performers, among whom about twenty-five singers. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Event Comment: [K$King, Queen, Prince, three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando