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502 results for: Keyword - Earl of Strafford
We found 240 matches on Performance Title, 143 matches on Performance Comments, 100 matches on Event Comments, 48 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

26
December 1701 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery. Date of Premiere unknown. Published 20 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Altemira

Related Works
Related Work: Altemira Author(s): Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery

27
22 May 1800 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Banti. A New Serious Opera [1st time; SER 2]. The Poetry by Metastasio, and the Music entirely new, composed by an English Gentleman [Richard Edgcumbe, Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe], who has obligingly lent Mme Banti the Score, and kindly consented to its being represented upon that occasion. Tickets to be had of Mme Banti, No. 24, St. Alban's-street. "Having granted the use of this opera to Banti only, I withdrew it immediately, and would not permit it to be again represented for the manager, who requested to have it. After this, Roselli sung no more, nor had we ever another soprano [i.e. castrato] at the opera [until 1825]" (Mount-Edgcumbe, 88)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia Of Armenia

Related Works
Related Work: Zenobia of Armenia Author(s): Richard Edgecumbe, Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe

Dance: As18000513

28
18 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: LLord Wentworth to the Earl of Strafford, 19 Jan.: We was at Covent Garden Play House last night, my mother was so good as to treat us with it, and the Dragon of Wantcliff was the farce. I like it vastly and the musick is excessive pretty, and tho it is a burlesque on the operas yet Mr Handel owns he thinks the tunes very well composed....and it has been acted 36 times already and they are always pretty full. The poor operas I doubt go on but badly, for tho every body praises both Cafferielli and the opera yet it has never been full, and if it is not now at first it will be very empty towards the latter end of the winter.--Wentworth Papers, p. 539

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

29
14 November 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill omits Earl of Richmond. The assignment is taken from Oracle, 14 Nov.] "In the play Trinculo's curtain [as used for his 1st scene in The Tempest] stood for the Tower, and Bosworth Field was a delightful little farm-yard" (Oracle, 15 Nov.). The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 9 Jan. 1792]. Receipts: #189 2". (152.18; 35.1; 1.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: King Henry-Bensley; Prince of Wales-Miss DeCamp; Duke of York-Miss Standen; Richard-Kemble; Duke of Buckingham-Barrymore; Earl of Richmond-Palmer; Duke of Norfolk-Dignum; Sir Richard Ratcliff-Phillimore; Sir William Catesby-Packer; Tressel-Whitfield; Earl of Oxford-Fawcett; Sir Robert Brackenbury-Benson; Lord Stanley-Aickin; Sir James Blount-Bland; Sir James Tyrrel-Jones; Lord Mayor-Hollingsworth; Elizabeth-Mrs Ward; Lady Anne-Mrs Powell; Duchess of York-Mrs Hopkins.
Cast
Role: Earl of Richmond Actor: Palmer
Role: Earl of Oxford Actor: Fawcett

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan; or, A Peep into the Seraglio

Dance: Afterpiece: Grand Dance-[See17911210]

30
27 February 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

31
22 October 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

32
30 December 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

33
09 February 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: England Preserv'd

Performance Comment: Earl of Surry-Holman; Earl of Pembroke-Pope; Earl William-Betterton; Robert Fitzwalter-Whitfield; Bishop of Winchester-Hull; Earl of Chester-Davenport; English Squire-Clarke; Earl of Lincoln-Waddy; French Prince-Toms; Viscount de Beaumont-Claremont; French Guard-Powel; Count de Nevers-Thompson; Herald-Farley; John de Warrenne-Miss Standen; Lady Surry-Miss Betterton.
Cast
Role: Earl of Surry Actor: Holman
Role: Earl of Pembroke Actor: Pope
Role: Earl William Actor: Betterton
Role: Earl of Chester Actor: Davenport
Role: Earl of Lincoln Actor: Waddy

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor; or, Little Bob and Little Ben

Dance: In afterpiece: Triple Hornpipe-Blurton, Mrs Watts, Mlle St.Amand

Song: End: Interlude of Songs, Glees, and Chorusses: With a jolly full Bottle, Great Britain still her Charter boasts, The Wooden Walls, Queen Betty was a famous Queen, To arms to arms-Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Linton, Gray, Street, Lee, Curties, Blurton, Wilde

Entertainment: Monologues. Preceding: An Occasional Prologue-Holman; Preceding singing: An Address to the Audience (instead of Epilogue)-Pope

34
10 August 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Elysium; or, Foote, Weston, Shuter, and Edwin in the Shades

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: Earl of Mercia-Cubitt; Mayor of Coventry-Wewitzer; Harold-Davies; Count Louis-Lyons; Tom-Wilson (1st appearance in that character); Crazy-Barrett; Godina-Mrs Cuyler; Emma-Mrs Bannister; Mayoress-Mrs Webb; Maud-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Earl of Mercia Actor: Cubitt

35
22 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Flitch Of Bacon

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: Earl of Mercia-Cubitt; Mayor of Coventry-Wilson; Harold-Davies; Count Louis-Bland; Peeping Tom-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in this opera); new song (in character) The little farthing rushlight (Thespian Magazine, Oct. 1792, p. 101)-Bannister Jun.; Crazy-Barrett; Godina-Mrs Cuyler; Emma-Mrs Bannister; Mayoress-Mrs Edwin; Maud-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Earl of Mercia Actor: Cubitt

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Song: As17920815

Entertainment: Monologue End 2nd piece: New Occasional Address-Mrs Kemble

36
14 June 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: Earl of Mercia-Evatt; Mayor of Coventry-Wewitzer; Harold-Davies; Peeping Tom-Bannister Jun.; Count Louis-Bland; Crazy-Barrett; Godina [sic]-Mrs Cuyler; Emma-Miss DeCamp; Mayoress-Mrs Webb; Maud-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Earl of Mercia Actor: Evatt

37
15 October 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: Earl of Mercia-Caulfield; Count Louis-Trueman; Mayor of Coventry-Wathen; Harold-Dignum; Crazy-Suett; Peeping Tom (with The Little Farthing Rushlight)-Bannister Jun.; Lady Godina [sic]-Miss Mellon; Emma-Miss DeCamp; Mayoress-Mrs Hopkins; Maud-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Earl of Mercia Actor: Caulfield

38
15 December 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Pembroke Actor: Bensley
Role: Earl of Suffolk Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

39
16 December 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Pembroke Actor: Bensley
Role: Earl of Suffolk Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

40
18 December 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Pembroke Actor: Bensley
Role: Earl of Suffolk Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

41
20 December 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Pembroke Actor: Bensley
Role: Earl of Suffolk Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

42
22 December 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Pembroke Actor: Bensley
Role: Earl of Suffolk Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: The Vintage, as17661011

43
23 December 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Pembroke Actor: Bensley
Role: Earl of Suffolk Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Dance: End: The Italian Bakers, as17661011

44
29 December 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Pembroke Actor: Bensley
Role: Earl of Suffolk Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: The Vintage, as17661011

45
31 December 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Pembroke Actor: Bensley
Role: Earl of Suffolk Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

46
16 January 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Pembroke Actor: Bensley
Role: Earl of Suffolk Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

47
31 January 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Pembroke Actor: Bensley
Role: Earl of Suffolk Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Cunning Man

48
18 February 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Pembroke Actor: Bensley
Role: Earl of Suffolk Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

49
09 November 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Warwick Actor: Holland
Role: Earl of Suffolk Actor: Packer
Role: Earl of Pembroke Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

50
06 February 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Warwick Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee