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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Opera House at Turin"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Opera House at Turin")') 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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5443 results for: Keyword - Opera House at Turin
We found 3079 matches on Event Comments, 2569 matches on Performance Title, 271 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4901
23 November 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Compos'd by Signior Hasse. [Text by Metastasio.] Pit and Boxes at half a guineas. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. [Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

4902
01 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 2 Dec.: Signora Strada was taken violently ill of a Fever of sore Throat, so that the Opera of Porus could not be perform'd as was intended; which sudden Indisposition put it out of the Power of the Directors to give earlier Notice to the Town of their Disappointment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

4903
08 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. Mrs Pendarves to Mrs Ann Granville, 8 Jan.: I was this morning regaled with Mr Handel's new opera called Arminius, it was rehearsed at Covent Garden.--Delany, Autobiography, I, 587

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

4904
12 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text possibly by A. Salvi. Music by Handel. Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminius

4905
07 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: In the morning Handel's new opera, Justin, was rehearsed. [See Egmont, Diary, II, 342.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

4906
12 February 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Giovanni Battist Pescetti.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrius

Afterpiece Title: Il Giocatore

4907
16 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Alteration of libretto by N. Beregani. Music by Handel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Justin

4908
28 February 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author, who is under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: A new Tragedy [by Matthew Gardiner]. Afterpiece: A new Ballad Opera, by the same Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Parthian Hero; Or, Love In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Sharpers; or, The Female Match-Maker

4909
12 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Frances Veracini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Titus

4910
13 April 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Giovanni Alberto Ristori. Music arranged by Handel. Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido

4911
25 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 26 April: Signior Rolli's new Opera Call'd Sabrina, was rehears'd Yesterday Morning in Mr Heidegger's Apartments, to a numerous and very splendid Audience of Ladies and Gentlemen. The Signora Antonia Maria Marchesini, lately arriv'd from Italy, perform'd in it with universal Approbation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sabrina

4912
26 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Text by Paul Rolli.] Daily Advertiser, 26 April: The Signora Marchesini's Songs are distributed after such a judicious Manner by the ingenious Author, so as to rise gradually upon the Audience in each Act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sabrina

4913
18 May 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Text by A. Salvi. Music by Handel.] By His Majesty's Command, [Their Majesties expect to attend.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Berenice

4914
24 May 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Composed by Egidio Duni Nepolitano.] 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

4915
25 May 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The hay advertised for 30 May and later two plays which never got staged: Macheath turn'd Pyrate; or, Polly in India. An Opera. Very much taken, if not improv'd from the famous Sequel of the late celebrated Mr Gay. With a New Prologue, proper to the Occasion. And after the Run of that, the Town will be entertain'd with a new Farce of two Acts, call'd The King and Titi; or, The Medlars. Taken from the History of Prince Titi, Originally written in French, and lately translated into English

Performances

4916
07 September 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Nicholas(late Miss Warren) being the first time of her appearance on the stage since her performing...Polly in the Beggar's Opera eight years ago

Performance Comment: ..Polly in the Beggar's Opera eight years ago.

4917
29 October 1737 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Salvi. Altered by Rolli.] Pit and Boxes together at half a guinea each. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. [Their Majesties present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsaces

4918
28 January 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Giovanni Battist Pescetti.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Conquista Del Vello D'oro

4919
25 February 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Text possibly by Zeno. Music, a Handel pasticcio.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alessandro Severo

4920
14 March 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Francis Veracini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Partenio

4921
14 April 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Harper. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: I: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

4922
15 April 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Handel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Xerxes

4923
26 July 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 26 July: Hay-Market, July 25, 1738. Wheras the Operas for the ensuing Season at the King's-Theatre...cannot be carried on as was intended, by Reason of the Subscription not being full, and that I could not agree with the Singers, tho' I offer'd One Thousand Guineas to One of them, I therefore think myself oblig'd to declard, that I give up this Undertaking for next Year....J. J. Heidegger

Performances

4924
12 October 1738 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: See Daily Post, 12 Oct., for an attack on the French comedians as well as one on the luxury of opera

Performances

4925
19 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of The Parracide. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera. [A letter to the Daily Post, 19 Jan., by the author of The Parracide states that after his play was damned on 17 Jan. he was offered a benefit; at first he chose his own play, then decided to offer The Way of the World.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Song: Roberts

Dance: As17390115