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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "Esther Cast Not Listed"/1)') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=150, performancetitle=100), ranker=wordcount

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Mainpiece Title: Esther, Cast Not Listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Dance: End of Act II Les Ruses de l'Amour (performers not listed, but see17830501), in which two Pas de Deux, as17830501, Sequedilla and Fandango, as17830410, and a Minuet and Gavotte, of her own composing, by Mlle Theodore; End of Opera an entire new Ballet, Tragi-Comic, La Dame Bienfaisante (performers not listed) [Public Advertiser, 10 May: composed by Lepicq], the story taken from a French Opera, the music by Floquet, with two Pas Seuls, as17830410

Song: New set of Airs, as17830306athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrio

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement [performers not listed, but see17841218]; End of Opera Le Tuteur Trompe, with the Fandango, Sapredella, and Allemande [performers not listed, but see I Jan.]

Song: In Act I a new Air, composed by Sarti, by Crescentini, and a Duet, composed by Bertoni, by Crescentini and Sga Ferrarese; In Act II an entire new Aria and a favourite Song of Handel [singer not listed]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: End of Act I A la Plus Sage [performers not listed, but see17850303 End of Opera Il Convitato di Pietra [performers not listed, but see17850312

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bird In A Cage; Or, Money Works Wonders

Afterpiece Title: The Drummer; or, The Haunted House

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Grand Dana of Ladies [performers not listed]; End of mainpiece The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd [performers not listed, but see17860304

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Armida

Dance: End of Act I Les Amans Surpris (not performed these 4 years [not since 30 June 1781]) by Vestris, Rochfort (1st appearance in England), Fabiani, Mlle Mozon, Mlle Baccelli; End of Opera Ninette a la Cour (not performed these 4 years [not since 3 July 1781]) by Vestris, Rochfort, Fabiani, Mlle Mozon, Mlle Baccelli. In the course of the ballet The Minuet de la Cour, with a favourite Gavotte, by Fabiani and Mlle Carolina, and a Pas de Deux of a particular Invention (the music newly composed by Mortellari) by Mlle Baccelli and Vestris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cast Not Listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cast Not Listed, But See 5 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cast Not Listed, But See 1 April

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cast Not Listed, But See 1 April

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cast Not Listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: A New Tambourine-Sga Barberina, Sga Domitilla, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Wright, Mrs Villeneuve; The Italian Peasants, as17411024, but Villagers not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Song: I: Hearts of Oak-as17620209 but no cast listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Dance: End III: The Merry Lasses-; End IV: The Venetian Regatta- [performers not listed for either dance, but "Monsieur Giorgi's infantile pupils, as dancers, were a complete burlesque upon a corps de ballet. The audience laughed, and tolerated the poor little things, when they were pushed on between the acts to caper and lose their shoes" (Peake, II, 15-16)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Country Dance incident to the Piece (performers not listed). [This was danced in both subsequent performances.] End of Act II a Dance by the Miss Stageldoirs. End of Act I of afterpiece The Devonshire Minuet by the Miss Stageldoirs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17810928; End of Act I of afterpiece the original Crutch Dance (performers not listed; it was included in all subsequent performances)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Circassian

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Music: In Act III of mainpiece an Epitbalamium [not listed in playbill, but see17811129]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Circassian

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Music: In Act III of mainpiece an Epithalamium [performers not listed; music by ThomasLinley Sen. (see text). This was included in all subsequent performances]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17811219; In Act V a Dance of Fortsters (performers not listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Quinto Fabio

Dance: End of Act I New Divertisement Dance (performers not listed, but probably as17820216), with The Emperor's Cossac, as17820129; End of Act II Rinaldo and Armida, as17820223

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: In Act IV of mainpiece a Dance of Daemons (performers not listed); End of Act I of afterpiece New Dance, as17820121

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polly

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece a Dance of Pirates; In Act III a Dance of Indians {performers not listed for either dance)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe [performer not listed]; In afterpiece, as17820826

Song: In afterpiece The Tobacco Box by Brett and Miss Morris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Song: Epithalamium as17821010, but performers not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Dance: End of mainpiece Diversion a-la-Mode (performers not listed, but see17821206, in which The Minuet de la Cour by Harris and Miss Besford