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4056 results for: Keyword - Edward the Black Prince
We found 1336 matches on Author, 1200 matches on Performance Comments, 1108 matches on Event Comments, 662 matches on Performance Title, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

3651
22 February 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. Benefit the late Mr Wilks's Widow. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Part of the Seats on the Stage (for the better Accommodation of the Ladies) will be form'd into Side-Boxes. Part of the Pit (by Desire) will be rail'd in at the Price of the Boxes. [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present. The Epilogue is in Weekly Miscellany, 10 March 1733.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Dance: Denoyer, Mrs Booth, Miss Robinson, Mrs Walter

3652
03 March 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and Three eldest Princesses present.] Daily Advertiser, 5 March: Signora Strada, on Account of whose Indisposition the Run of the new Opera of Orlando was interrupted, continues very ill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

3653
12 March 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. By Command of His Royal Highness. Part of the Stage (for the better Accommodation of the Ladies) will be form'd into Boxes. Receipts: money #79 9s. 6d; tickets #112 16s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; new Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre, Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Newhouse, Miss LaTour, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden, LeSac, Miss Baston; French Peasant-Poitier, Miss LaTour; Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, DuPre, Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

3654
17 March 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. A New Oratorio in English. Composed by Mr Handel. And to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. The House to be fitted up and illuminated in a new and particular manner. Tickets One Guinea. Gallery Half a Guinea. [Text by Samuel Humphreys. Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] Daily Advertiser, 20 March: An Entertainment, perhaps, the most magnificent that has ever been exhibited on an English Theatre....The Composition of the Musick is by no means inferior to the most finish'd of that Gentleman's Works; but the Disposition of the Performers was in a Taste beyond what has been attempted. There was a very great Number of Instruments by the best Hands, and such as would properly accompany three Organs. The Pit and Orchestre were cover'd as at an Assembly, and the whole House Illuminated in a new and most beautiful manner. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Performance Comment: Edition of 1733 does not list performers' names, but Daily Advertiser, 20 March, states: Wherein Principal Parts-Signor Senosini, Signora Strada, Signora Gismundi, Signora Bertoldi, Signor Montagnana, Miss Young, Miss Arne, Mrs Wright, Mr Swartzs[, perform'd the principal Parts. [See also Deutsch, Handel, p. 308, and Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 236.], perform'd the principal Parts. [See also Deutsch, Handel, p. 308, and Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 236.]

3655
27 March 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 28 March: Their Majesties, together with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses were again...to see Deborah...at which was likewise present one of the most numerous Audiences of Nobility and Persons of Distinction that has been ever seen in any Theatre. Egmont, Diary, I, 345: It was very magnificent, near a hundred performers, among whom about twenty-five singers. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

3656
31 March 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [K$King, Queen, Prince, three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

3657
24 April 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

3658
29 May 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$The King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

3659
05 June 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$The King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

3660
06 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: As 4 June. [Prince of Wales and Earl of Egmont present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Dance: As17330604

3661
05 July 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a payment of #250 by the Prince of Wales to Opera, see Deutsch, Handel, p. 319

Performances

3662
07 November 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: In Three Acts. Set to Musick after the Italian Manner by Mr John Frederick Lampe. Daily Advertiser, 8 Nov.: The Arrival of his Highness the Prince of Orange, indeed, prevented many Persons of Quality from being there, who had taken Boxes; but 'tis presum'd it cannot fail of Success and Encouragement notwithstanding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Opera Of Operas

Performance Comment: Tom Thumb-Master Kilburn, the first time of his appearance on any stage; King Arthur-Stoppelaer; Dollalolla-Mrs Clive; Merlin-Nichols; Noodle-Mountier; Doodle-Snider; Foodle-Rainton; Parson-Snider; Bailiff-Rainton; Follower-Nichols; Cleora-Miss Atherton; Mustacha-Miss Palms; Grizzle and Ghost of Gaffer Thumb-Waltz; Huncamunca-Mrs Mason; Glumdalca-Topham, who never appeared on any stage before .
Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Master Kilburn, the first time of his appearance on any stage
Role: Cleora Actor: Miss Atherton

Dance:

3663
07 November 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 8 Nov.: Last Night there were Bonfires and Illuminations in the City, on account of the Arrival of the Prince of Orange; at [GF] there was a Bonfire also, and Beer for the Populace; the Side of the Theatre was illuminated with a great Number of Candles, and two large Triumphal Arches raised, and likewise illuminated

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Moody Actor: R. Wetherilt
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Wetherilt

Afterpiece Title: The Mad Captain

Dance: Masquerade Dance (composed by Thurmond): Le Petit Maitre-D'Vallois; Mlle-Miss Wherrit

3664
10 November 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 12 Nov.: The Royal Family were at the Opera, his Highness the Prince of Orange was there likewise in a Box next to that of the Princess Royal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Related Works
Related Work: Semiramis Author(s): George Edward Ayscough

3665
20 November 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

3666
04 December 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Apostolo Zeno. Recitatives by Handel. Prince and three eldest Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caius Fabricius

3667
18 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit John Dennis. Daily Advertiser, 19 Dec: There was an exceeding crowded Audience of Persons of Distinction ... at Mr Dennis's Benefit, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was pleased to send twenty Guineas as a present to that Gentleman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Festival

Related Works
Related Work: London's Anniversary Festival, Performed on Monday October the 29th, 1688 Author(s): Matthew Taubman

3668
24 December 1733 @ Pall Mall

Event Comment: Daily Post, 25 Dec: Last Night there was a Rehearsal of a new Opera at the Prince of Wales's House in the Royal Gardens in Pall-Mall, where was present a great Concourse of the Nobility and Quality of both Sexes: some of the choicest Voices and Hands assisted in the Performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rehearsal Of A New Opera [ariadne

3669
12 February 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, and three eldest Princesses present. Egmont also present. For a satiric pamphlet on opera, see Harmony in an Uproar, dated 12 Feb.; much of it is reprinted in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 344-57.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

3670
05 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince of Orange, and rest of Royal Family present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

3671
12 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Their Majesties, three eldest Princesses, and Prince of Orange present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

3672
23 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Egmont, II, 68: After dinner I went... to hear Hendel's Serenata composed in honour of the marriage, call'd Apollo and Daphnis. The Royal Family was all there, the Prince of Wales excepted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

3673
02 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Galliard. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Nuptial Masque

Cast
Role: Cupid Actor: Miss Norsa, the first time of her appearing in boy's clothes
Role: Bridal Virgin Actor: Miss Hillyard, the first time of her appearing on any stage

Dance: I: Les Characteres de l'Amour by Mlle Salle. II: French Peasant by Maker. III: Pigmalion, as17340114

3674
02 April 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Mr Handel. [Prince and Princess of Orange, Princess Caroline, Mrs Pendarves, Lady Rich, and Egmont present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

3675
10 April 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: As 8 April. Benefit Mrs Celestina Hempson. At 6:30 P.M. [Prince of Orange expected to attend.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: David

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