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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Senesino"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Senesino")') 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 76 matches on Roles/Actors, 62 matches on Performance Comments, 13 matches on Performance Title, 9 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto [sic]

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

Dance: A Minuet-Gallini, Sga Carlini, by Particular Desire

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Mainpiece Title: Il Ciro Riconosiuto

Dance: With a New change of the First and Second Dances

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Galli. Composed by Handel. Signora Galli will sing the Part of Alexander, with all the original songs of Senesino. [As Senesino created this role in 1726, the piece performed tonight may be Handel's, not Lampugnani's; see kings, 15 Nov. 1743 and Deutsch, Handel, p. 647.

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Mainpiece Title: Roxana

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Mainpiece Title: Crispus

Performance Comment: Edition of 1721 lists: Constantino-Giuseppe Boschi; Crispo-Francesco Bernardi (Senesino); Costante-Benedetto Baldassari; Fausta-Mrs Anastasia Robinson; Olimpia-Signora Madalena Salvai.

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Mainpiece Title: Griselda

Performance Comment: Edition of 1721 lists: Griselda-Mrs Anastasia Robinson; Almirena-Signora Madalena Salvai; Gualtiero-Francesco Barnardi (Senesino); Rambaldo-Guiseppe Boschi; Ernesto-Bened. Baldassari.
Event Comment: Daily Courant, 31 Oct., states that, because of the illness of Senesino, the performance is deferred to Saturday 3 Nov

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Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

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Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

Performance Comment: Advertised but deferred as Senesino has not fully recovered.

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Mainpiece Title: Scipio

Performance Comment: Edition of 1726 lists: P. C. Scipione-Baldi; Luceius-Francesco Bernardi [Senesino]; C. Lelius-Antinori; Ernando-Boschi; Berenice-Signora Francesca Cuzzoni; Armira-Constantini.

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Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Performance Comment: Advertised, but deferred by illness of Senesino.
Event Comment: DDaily Post, 10 June; The Beggar's Wedding...is very entertaining; but the Part of Hunter , in particular, is perform'd by a Person, who, altho his Voice is but indifferent, sings, in the Opinion of all Judges, with a Manner almost as agreeable as Senesino

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: As17290603

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 9 Oct.: There are Grand Preparations making at the Opera-House in the Hay-Market by New Cloaths, Scenes, &c. And, Senesino being arrived, they will begin to perform as soon as the Court comes to St. James's

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Event Comment: [P$Princess Royal and Princess Amelia present.] Daily Advertiser, 11 June: After the Performance was over, Signor Senesino made his Leave of the Audience, in a short Speech, acquainting them, as he said, with Regret 'That he had now perform'd his last Part on that Stage, and was henceforward discharg'd from any Engagement.

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Mainpiece Title: Griselda

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 13 June: The Subscribers to the Opera in which Signior Senesino and Signora Cuzzoni are to perform [the Opera of the Nobility], are desired to meet at Mr Hickford's Great Room in Panton-street, on Friday next by Eleven o'Clock, in order to settle proper Methods for carrying on the Subscription

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