SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Princess Mary"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Princess Mary")') 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 840 matches on Event Comments, 275 matches on Performance Comments, 224 matches on Performance Title, 29 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Admission as 19 April. Original Weekly Journal, 14 May: His Majesty, the Prince and Princess, and a prodigious Number of the Nobility were at the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Radamistus

Event Comment: At Mr Penkethman's Theatre, before their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Singing the Famous-Signor Beneditte

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Shakespear. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Event Comment: [Music by Ariosti, Bononcini, Handel. Text by P. A. Rolli.] Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. De Fabrice to Flemming, 21 April (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 126): The Princess of Wales was safely delivered of a son last Saturday. The news was taken to the King by Lord Herbert during...Mutius Scevola, where there was a particularly large audience on account of its being the first performance. The audience celebrated the event with loud applause and huzzas. Each act of this opera is by a different composer, -the first by a certain Pipo, the second by Bononcini, and the third by Hendell, who easily triumphed over the others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

Event Comment: Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. The Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten years [but see 22 Dec. 1713]. By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Ben Johnson. [Prince and Princess present. The Epilogue is in Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 16 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Event Comment: Admission as 9 Dec. 1721. The King, Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

Event Comment: The Princess of Wales present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. The King, Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Event Comment: Benefit Legare. By His Royal Highness's Command. Mainpiece: Written by Abraham Cowley. Receipts: money #118 9s.; tickets #4 5s. The Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cutter Of Coleman Street

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. The Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Dance: The Hussars-Shaw, Mrs Booth; Tollet's Ground-Mrs Younger, Miss Tenoe; Highland Lilt-Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses's command. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: King, Prince, and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pharnaces

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By Their Royal Highnesses's command. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Event Comment: By command of their Royal Highnesses, the young Princesses. Receipts: #151 19s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Admission as 14 Jan. Daily Journal, 21 Feb.: Last Night his Majesty, the Prince and Princess, with great Numbers of the Nobility, went to see the new Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. No Persons to be admitted into the Boxes, or behind the Scenes, but by printed tickets at 5s. Two Benches of the Pit to be rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes. [The King and the Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Performance Comment: As17241113, but Pedro-Thurmond; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-Miss Robinson Jr , who acted the Part of Princess Elizabeth by Anna Bullen , and the Duke of York in Richard the Third.

Dance: End I: Polonese-Miss Robinson, Rainton; III: A new Passacaille-Miss Robinson; V: A New Comic Dance-Miss Robinson, Rainton

Music: II: 2d Concerto of Corelli-; IV: Select Piece with Hautboys and Flutes-

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Written by the late Mr Wycherly. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Event Comment: TThe King, Prince and Princess of Wales present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rodelinda

Event Comment: [Text by Haym.] Admission as 30 Nov. 1725. The King and the three Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elisa

Event Comment: TThe King, Prince and Princess of Wales present. Universal Mercury, February 1726: Mr Handel had the Satisfaction of seeing an old Opera of his not only fill the House, which had not been done for a considerable time before, but People crowding so fast to it, that above 300 were turn'd away for want of room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. The Pit and Front Boxes put together at 5s. [The Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Dance: As17251204

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. By the Italian Company of Comedians newly arriv'd. Pit and Boxes together by tickets only at 4s. Gallery 2s. N.B. Whereas the Number of Subscribers for this Company that are in Town, is very little, some of the first Representations will not be on thair Account. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 1 Oct.: Last Wednesday Night his Majesty and their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, together with great Numbers of the Nobility and Persons of Distinction...saw the Comedy...The Faithful Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Wife; Or, Arlequin Strip'd, Sentry, Brave, Coward, Terrour Of The Turks, And Judge Of His Own Cause

Dance: Monsieur Poictier, others