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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.

876
26 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: Coronation Anthems

Music: As17840312athi

877
02 April 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book, 15 Apr.: Received Stanley's Oratorio Acct. #294 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17840312athi

878
14 May 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #279 19s. (275/15; 4/4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Song: In afterpiece Old ThomasDay, as17840424

879
27 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron & J. Shade. The last Time of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 1 July: Paid Renters #20 4s. apiece; received of Their Majesties #73. Receipts: #31 8s. (23/18/0; 6/11/6; 0/18/6; tickets: none listed) (charge:#105 6s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece Hornpipe, as17840416

880
02 June 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The last Night of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 3 June: Paid Lewis in full his Salary as Acting Manager #200; 23 June: Received of Their Majesties for this Season #50; 28 June: Paid Hull in lieu of a Benefit #100; 30 June: Paid Harris for his trouble in superintending the Theatre #500; Paid Cooper, printer, #433 9s. Receipts: #227 6s. 6d. (223/5/9; 4/1/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: End of mainpiece Malbrough, as17840508

Monologue: 1784 06 02 After the Dance an Address, not listed on playbill, written and spoken by Mrs Abington (London Chronicle, 5 June)

881
09 June 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Afterpiece: The Overture and new Music composed by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: As17840528

882
21 October 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Dance: As17841020

883
03 November 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Merchant of Venice; afterpiece of Love a-la-Mode, both announced on playbill of 2 Nov. In afterpiece the playbill assigns Young Wilding to Bonnor, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Palmer.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17841022

884
17 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Paid Half Year's Watch & Beadles, St Martin's Parish, #22 3s. 8d. Receipts: #289 18s. (276/1/0; 12/19/6; 0/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

885
01 December 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End of mainpiece a new Ballet (composed by Harris) The Mountaineers; or, The Woodland Sports by Harris, Miss Matthews and Miss Besford

886
15 December 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #265 16s. (250/9/0; 14/15/6; 0/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

887
18 December 1784 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Comic Opera (1st time [in London; 1st performed at Rome, 1777]); the Music entirely new, by Anfossi. With new Scenes, painted by Novosielski; new Dresses and Decorations by Sestini, both for the Opera and Dances. By their Majesties Command No Person can be admitted behind the Scenes. Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. The Doors to be opened at 6:00, and begin exactly at 7:00 [see 7 June 1785]. Subscriptions are received at Messrs Ransom, Moreland and Hammersley's, bankers, No. 57, Pall-mall; who will deliver the Subscription Tickets. The Nobility and Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera-House, are respectfully intreated to send for them, as, in order to prevent future mistakes, no body can be admitted without producing a Ticket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Curioso Indiscreto

Dance: End of Act I an entirely new Divertissement (composed by Lepicq) by Nivelon, Mlle Dorival (from the Opera-House in Paris; their 1st appearance), Frederic, Mme Julien, Mlle Fusi, Mme Bithmer (their 1st appearance), Henry, Zuchelli, Sg and Sga Pitrot Angiolini (from the King's Theatre at Naples; their 1st appearance); End of Opera a new Grand Ballet (composed by Lepicq) Le Parti de Chasse d'Henry IV-King Henry rv-Angiolini; the other Characters by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Frederic, Mlle Dorival, Zuchelli, Nivelon, Sga Pitrot Angiolini

888
31 December 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

889
27 January 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

Dance: As17850121

890
03 February 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Follies of a Day; afterpiece of The Poor Soldier, both announced on playbill of 2 Feb.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: As17850114

891
07 February 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #283 11s. 6d. (272/14/0; 10/8/6; 0/9/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

892
11 February 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at half a guinea each. Pit 51. 1st Gallery 3;. 6d. 2nd Gallery is. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Music That Was Selected For The Commemoration Of Handel, In Westminster Abbey And The Pantheon, The 26th And 27th Of May, 1784

Performance Comment: [In subsequent seasons this was performed under the title of Redemption]. Principal Vocal Parts by Norris, Reinhold; Miss George, Miss Phillips. 1st Violin-Richards .

893
17 February 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Siege of Damascus; afterpiece of The Critic, both announced on playbill of 15 Feb.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: As17841001

894
18 February 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: Dryden's Ode

Music: End of Part I of oratorio concerto on the French harp by Cardon, late Musician to the Queen of France

895
24 February 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Natural Son; afterpiece of Liberty Hall, both announced on playbill 22 Feb.] Receipts: #286 14s. 6d. (276/12/0; 9/12/0; 0/10/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron

896
25 February 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: Some of the Pieces that were selected and performed for the Commemoration of Handel [&c

Music: As17850223

897
04 March 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Music: End of Part 1 concerto on the hautboy by Parke

898
11 March 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: End of Part I concerto on the Piano Forte ["the sixth concerto of Schroeter's last set [i.e. Op. V]" (London Magazine, Mar. 1785, p. 217)] by Miss Parke

899
12 March 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #291 (283/5/0; 7/12/6; 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

900
17 March 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: End of mainpiece The Rival Nymphs, as17841006, but omitted: Byrne, Ratchford