SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Queen of Bohemia"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Queen of Bohemia")') 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 1120 matches on Performance Comments, 759 matches on Performance Title, 431 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The Queen Theatre in Dorset-Garden is now fitting up for a new Opera; and the great Preparations are made to forward it and bring it upon the Stage by the beginning of June, adds to every body's Expectation, who promise themselves mighty Satisfaction from so well-order'd and regular an Undertaking as this is said to be, both in the Beauties of the Scenes, and Varieties of Entertainments in the Musick and Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage; Or, The Innocent Adultery

Song: Leveridge, Mrs Campion, Mrs Shaw

Dance: DuRuell, others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Performance Comment: a new Epilogue to be spoken in a Quaker's Dress-the little Girl that play'd the Part of Queen Bess in Anna Bullen.
Event Comment: Beginning at 5 p.m. and ending at 7 p.m. Tickets 5s. This Consort to be perform'd but once, because of the Queen's going to the Bath

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: A great Consort of Musick-; several new songs-Mr Elford, Mr Weldon all compos'd on purpose for this Entertainment by the said Mr Weldon; Some of the Songs to be accompanied by a Flute-Mr Peasable; and a new Symphony for a Flute and a Violin-Mr Peasable, the Famous Signior Gasparini; who will perform several Italian Sonatas-Mr Peasable; accompanied-Mr Depar; and other great Symphonies-the best Masters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Performance Comment: Marc Antony-Betterton; Ventidius-Verbruggen; Dolabella-Wilks; Alexas-Booth; Cleopatra-Mrs Barry; Octavia-Mrs Bracegirdle [Downes, p. 47]; A Prologue to the Court on the Queen's Birthday [1704 [Congreve, IV, 72-73]-.
Event Comment: Elizabeth Coke to Thomas Coke: They say the Queen and Prince was both extremely diverted with it. There was a great deal of Company, but no finery, the Court being in mourning. [Cowper MS, III, 163.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Solomon Single

Event Comment: [Librettist unknown. Premiere. For the identification of this opera, see Loewenberg, pp. 58-59. Downes (p. 48) says that the opera lasted five days; Cibber (I, 325) states that it was given only three days, and those not crowded. This day marked the opening of the Queen's Theater in the Haymarket, the first new theatrical construction of the century. For a discussion of it, see Cibber, I, 319-22.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Loves Of Ergasto

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By George Farquhar. The preface is a semi-serious, semi-humorous apology for having the play open on the night of D'Urfey's benefit at the Queen's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Event Comment: [By Colley Cibber.] Never Acted before. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. [In the preface to The Double Gallant Cibber states that in Marriage a la Mode he joined "the Comical Episodes of the Maiden Queen, and Marriage alamode...the Alteration cost me but six days trouble; and not calling it a new Play, we found the Town very favourable to it."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marriage A La Mode; Or, The Comical Lovers

Event Comment: [This performance probably marked the opening of the summer season at the queen's.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Event Comment: At 7 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d. At Queen Street and Frith Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

Event Comment: [An order of this date by the Lord Chamberlain restricted the queen's to operas, Drury Lane to plays; the change became effective after 10 Jan. 1708.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years [but see queen's, 14 Dec. 1706 and dl, 12 Oct. 1705]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Song: the best Performers

Dance: the best Performers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: See dl, 18 Oct. 1707 and queen's, 31 Dec. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Performance Comment: Betterton and Mrs Barry acting their own parts, but see queen's, 6 Nov. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Performance Comment: See queen's 18 Oct. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Performance Comment: See queen's 1 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: See queen's 6 Dec. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Performance Comment: See queen's 25 Oct. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune Hunters

Performance Comment: See queen's 31 Oct. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Performance Comment: See queen's 19 Nov. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: See queen's 10 Nov. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: See queen's and dl, 21 Oct. 1707.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Performance Comment: As at queen's 23 Oct. 1707, but Crack-Penkethman.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Performance Comment: As at queen's 11 Nov. 1707, but Humphrey-Penkethman; Pounce-Estcourt; Fainlove-Mrs Porter; Aunt-_.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Performance Comment: As at queen's, 24 Nov. 1707.