SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Daughter of the late Mr Farquhar"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Daughter of the late Mr Farquhar")') 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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?

Keyword

?
We found 5195 matches on Event Comments, 1656 matches on Author, 1330 matches on Performance Comments, 924 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Southerne. Afterpiece: With New Habits, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Cupid and Psyche or Colombine Courtezan

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus and Moliere by Mr Fielding. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. III: Pierrots by Nivelon and Poitier. V: Les Bergeries by Essex, Mrs Walter, Pelling, Chose, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Miss Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17341009

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 30 Oct.: Yesterday Morning died of a Consumption. . . Mr Hall the Comedian

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 4 Nov.: We are informed, that when Mr Handel waited on their Majesties with his New Opera of Ariodante, his Majesty . . . was graciously pleased to subscribe 1000/. towards carrying on the Opera [at CG. No confirmation of this point is known]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Stephens; Moneses-Ryan; Axalla-A. Hallam; Prince-Hale; Dervise-Roberts; Omar-Marshall; Stratocles-Aston; Selima-Miss Bincks; Bajazet-Walker; Arpasia-Mrs Hallam. With the usual Prologue .

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 6 Nov.: The King, the Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia, were again to . . . Artaxerxes, in which Signor Farnelli continues to sing to a crowded Audience, with all imaginable Applause. Egmont, Diary, II, 132: Went to the opera, where I heard the finest voice that Europe affords, Faranelli, lately come over. Norwich Gazette, 9 Nov.: We hear that both Operas (occasion'd by their dividing) are at a vast expence to entertain the Nobility and Gentry for the ensuing Season; the Opera House in the Haymarket are reckon'd to stand near 12000l. and Mr Handell at near 9000l. for the Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Event Comment: The Bee, 9 Nov.: Mr Handel opens Tomorrow . . . with the Opera of Pastor Fido . . . and we hear there was a Rehearsal this Day at Twelve o'Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Otway. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: By Denoyer and Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Lady Elizabeth Compton to Countess of Northampton, 28 Nov.: Mr Buncombe's Brother has written a Play & last night was the Poetts night, I was there & I think he had a prodigious full house, especially considering that the Town is not near so full as it will be after Xmas. A Play comes out now with great disadvantage for 'twas sadly acted. MSS of Marquess Townshend, p. 244

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Junius Brutus

Cast
Role: Messala Actor: Theo. Cibber
Event Comment: Egmont, Diary, II, 135: Public music at the Crown and Anchor. . . Faranelli, Curona, and Mr Matheis were our singers, and we had 24 performers on instruments

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal by Miss Cecilia Young and Miss Isabella Young. Instrumental from the Opera, with Violin by Festing, Violoncello by Caporali, Hautboy by Kytch. Water Musick by Handel, with Benj. Baker doing a Preamble on the Kettle Drums

Performance Comment: Instrumental from the Opera, with Violin by Festing, Violoncello by Caporali, Hautboy by Kytch. Water Musick by Handel, with Benj. Baker doing a Preamble on the Kettle Drums .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: Les Bergeries by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. Polonese by Essex and Mrs Walter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Dance: As17341231

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom or The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, their Highnesses the Princess Amelia, the Princess Caroline, the Princess Louisa, and the Princess Maria. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Voltaire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zaire

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Always Harlequin

Dance:

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Mr Foster, at the Mitre in Islington, who has a large and sickly Family in Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: By Mlle Salle. The Medley by S. Lally, De la Garde, Miss Baston. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: The Medley by S. Lally, De la Garde, Miss Baston. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The Plot

Dance: Polish Ballet, as17341221

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Quin; Horner-W. Mills; Sparkish-Cibber; Harcourt-Mills; Dorilant-Este; Sir Jasper-Griffin; Quack-Shepard; Mrs Pinchwife-Mrs Clive; Alithea-Mrs Butler; Lady Fidget-Mrs Pritchard; Mrs Squeamish-Mrs Grace; Dainty-Miss Mann; Lucy-Mrs Cross .
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Butler

Music: For the Second Musick, the First Concerto of the 2d Opera of Geminiani. For the Third Musick, the Overture to Esther. I: Concerto for Hautboys by Geminiani

Performance Comment: For the Third Musick, the Overture to Esther. I: Concerto for Hautboys by Geminiani .

Dance: II: Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. IV: Polonese by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. V: Russian Sailor by Denoyer

Event Comment: Benefit Cochoy, Mrs Cochoy, and their Children. Second Piece: A Farce of one Act (written by Moliere)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fille Capitaine

Afterpiece Title: The French Cuckold

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Sauvage

Dance: A Lilliputian Dance call'd La Polissone

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Southern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: French Peasant by Lalauze, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann. Tit for Tat, as17350215

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal by Waltz. Instrumental by Opera Masters, especially Flute by Hagan, French Horn by Antony Uhl and Cook