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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) " His Majesties"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) " His Majesties")') 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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1104 results for: Keyword - His Majesties
We found 1049 matches on Event Comments, 31 matches on Performance Comments, 30 matches on Performance Title, 9 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

551
25 March 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. House charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

552
26 April 1768 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Filosopho Di Campagna

553
13 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Cancelled. Theatre and all the Gardens [closed] on account of the Death of Louisa Anne [sister of His Majesty]--until 23 May. [This was to have been the Benefit night for Mortimer, Tomlinson, and Lings.] Tickets deliver'd by Miss Berkley, Mas. Cape, and for The Committee were to have been taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Afterpiece Title: None

Dance: [I: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Cape, Miss Taylor.

554
06 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: To begin at 6 o'clock. Doors open at 5 o'clock. Send servants at 4 o'clock. King of Denmark. Ranger-Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Both pieces By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

555
10 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Interlude (by Isaac Bickerstaffe; Music by Arnold) in Honor of His Danish Majesty. It concludes with a Large Coronet of Flowers and a Garland Dance. Done apparently to speed the departing guest and cement good public relations.] Receipts: #120 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

556
13 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties. Servants are desired to be at the theatre to keep places by 4 o'clock. Receipts: #209 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930; End I [of Farce]: The Merry Sailors, as17680920

557
20 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King? & Queen? (Cross Diary). Mr Havard being ill, Mr Aickin played Leonato (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

558
22 October 1768 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arianne E Teseo

559
05 November 1768 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The First Night of the Subscription. A new comic opera composed by Signor Buranello. Pit and Boxes together, and no Persons admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day at the Office, at 10s. 6d. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. The Gallery, Pit and Boxes will be open'd at Five. By their Majesties Command no persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes or into the Orchestra. 6:30 p.m. Vivant Rex et Regina. [Repeated in the bills.] The Subscription is for 50 Nights only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Amanti Ridicoli

Dance: New Dances-

560
05 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Majesties. Rec'd of Condell on Acct of Fruit Rent #20. Gave Yeomen of the Guards #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #223 14s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: II: The Reel, as17681212

561
07 January 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

562
12 January 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. K. & Q. Richard-Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Neville MS Diary: Garrick played Richard III. In attempting to get into the Pit was forced into the 2 shilling gallery Passage & after being squeezed abominably for an hour got into the street. Should not have received much pleasure if I had got in, as that calf headed son of a whore, George etc. was there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

563
14 January 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Viaggiatori Tornati

564
19 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both Pieces By Command of their Majesties. Gave Yeomen of the Guards #2 2s. Receipts: #238 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tom Jones

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: II: Irish Lilt-. [See17680930.

565
28 January 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A comic opera by Fishietti. By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Mercato De Malmantile

566
09 February 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. K. & Q.; Kitley, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

567
13 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Present Their Majesties, Prince of Wales and Prince Frederick. Gave Yeomen of the Guards #2 2s. Receipts: #234 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: IV: The Lamplighters, as17681101

568
17 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galetea And Dryden's Ode

Music: Solo on the Violin-Sg Paganini

569
22 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Theatrical Register, 1769: This is a very masterly performance, in general more pleasing (though less grand) than many of Handel's Oratorios, the subject of the drama not requiring that Solemnity of stile which some others demand. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Music: Concerto on Hautboy-Fischer

570
24 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joshua

Music: Concerto on Violin-Paganini

571
01 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Theatrical Register, 1769: This perhaps is one of the best of all Mr Handel's performances in this species of composition. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: Concerto on Hautboy-Fischer

572
03 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Theatrical Register, 1769: We cannot rank this among th most capital of Mr Handel's oratorios; and yet it has great merit in one particular, viz. the attempt to characterize the idea of the plagues of Egypt by the power of music, in which, perhaps, the composer has carried the force of imitation to its utmost extent. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Israel In Egypt

Music: Concerto on Violin-Paganini

573
08 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: CConcerto on Hautboy-Fischer

574
10 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Music: CConcerto on Hautboy-Fischer

575
11 March 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Re Alla Caccia