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6418 results for: Keyword - English, French, Dutch Characters
We found 3996 matches on Performance Comments, 1727 matches on Performance Title, 1431 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4226
11 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing; Or, Florizel And Perdita

Afterpiece Title: Lovers' Quarrels

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-King, Holman, Ryder, Farren, Rock, Thompson, Miss Chapman, Mrs Bernard, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Pope. [Cast from playbills of 12 May and 15 Oct. 1790: Sancho-King; Don Carlos-Holman; Lopez-Ryder; Don Lorenzo-Farren; Don Alvarez-Rock; Don Felix-Thompson; Angelina-Miss Chapman; Isabella-Mrs Bernard; Jacintha-Mrs Mattocks; Leonora-Mrs Pope.]
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: King, Holman, Ryder, Farren, Rock, Thompson, Miss Chapman, Mrs Bernard, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End 1st piece: Tamborine Dance, as17891021

Song: In II 1st piece: Come come my good Shepherds-; and trio, Get you hence!-

Entertainment: Monologue. After dancing: A Paraphrase of Shakespeare's Seven Ages (Written by the late George Alexander Stevens)-King

4227
27 February 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Villanella Rapita

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Mussini (1st appearance), Neri, Borselli, Costa, Sga Borselli, Sga Storace. Cast from libretto (H. Reynell, 1790): Conte-Mussini; Biagio-Neri; Pippo-Borselli; Paolino-Costa; Giannina-Sga Borselli; Mandina-Sga Storace.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Mussini

Dance: End I: La Bergere des Alpes, as17900107; End Opera: Les Mariages Flamands, as17900213, but Mlle Dorival

4228
08 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Czar

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Bannister, Quick, Edwin, Blanchard, Darley, Rock, C. Powell, Egan, Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Billington. Cast from Airs (T. Cadell, 1790): The Czar-Bannister; Justice Applejack-Quick; Philip-Edwin; Count Couvanski-Blanchard; Commodore Swivel-Darley; Ballybough-Rock; Romadanowski-C. Powell; Slip-Egan; Lefort-Johnstone; Nib-Farley; Ellen-Mrs Martyr; Mrs Applejack-Mrs Mountain; Ottokesa-Mrs Billington.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Bannister, Quick, Edwin, Blanchard, Darley, Rock, C. Powell, Egan, Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Billington. Cast from Airs

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Song: III: The Prince unable to conceal his Pain, from Alexander's Feast-Mrs Billington. [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

4229
18 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Toy; Or, Hampton-court Frolics

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

4230
22 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Dance: End: Tamborine Dance- [See17891021]; Afterpiece conclude: Dance-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

4231
27 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Cast
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: Glib (for that night only)-Lewis; Sir Toby Fuz-Powel; Sir Macaroni Virtu-Bernard; Patent-Thompson; Wilson-Macready; Mervin-Evatt; Prompter-Farley; Carpenter-Rock; Miss Fuz-Mrs Lewis; Sweepers-Mrs Powell, Mrs Davenett; Lady Fuz-Mrs Webb; Characters in the Burletta: Orpheus-Davies; Shepherds-Darley, Reeve, Blurton, Lee, Cubitt; Old Shepherd-Blanchard; Rhodope-Mrs Martyr.

4232
06 April 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'usurpator Innocente

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Marchesi (1st appearance this season), Mussini, Benigni, Costa, Torregiani, Sga Borselli, Mme Mara (1st appearance this season). Cast from libretto (Cane and Hammond, 1790): Timante-Luigi Marchesi; Demofoonte-Mussini; Cherinto-Giuseppe Benigni; Matusio-Costa; Adrato-Torregiani; Creusa-Sga Borselli; Dircea-Mme Mara.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Marchesi

Dance: End I: Les Mariages Flamands, as17900227; End Opera: Les Caprices-Labourie, Duquesney, Mlle de'Caro, Mlle Dorival, Mlle Hilligsberg

4233
21 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Pharo Table

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Afterpiece Title: Patrick in Prussia i

4234
07 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Performance Comment: Master of the Toy Shop-Bannister Jun.; the other Characters-Suett, R. Palmer, Fawcett, Phillimore, Alfred, Miss Tidswell, Miss Barnes, Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: the other Characters Actor: Suett, R. Palmer, Fawcett, Phillimore, Alfred, Miss Tidswell, Miss Barnes, Mrs Wilson.

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: As17900323

4235
13 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa; Or, The School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Song: In: Sweet Passion of Love-Mrs Mountain; End I afterpiece: Hark the Lark at Heaven's Gate (with accompaniments by Dr Arnold)-Johnstone, Blanchard, Bannister, Mrs Mountain

Music: Mainpiece: With a new Overture (for that night only)-Pleyel; End I: (for that night only) a duet on the violin and tenor-Mme Gautherot, Mountain; End: a concerto on the violin-Mme Gautherot

4236
24 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Performance Comment: Marc Antony (Emperor of Rome)-Holman; Ventidius (the Roman General)-Harley (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Dollabella-Farren; Alexas-Davies; Serapion (Priest of Isis)-Hull; Cleopatra (Queen of Egypt)-Miss Brunton; Octavia (for that night only)-Mrs Pope (Their 1st appearance in those characters).

Afterpiece Title: An Harmonic Festival

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Cast
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Song: End II: a Nicketerotion at the Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra-; Vocal Parts-Bannister, Johnstone, Darley, Duffey, Mrs Warrell, Mrs Masters, Mrs Gray, Mrs Mountain

Dance: With Grand Dance-Byrne, the two Miss Simonets

4237
25 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Performance Comment: As17900511, but Characters-Mrs _Crouch, Miss Hagley.
Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Mrs _Crouch, Miss Hagley.

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: End IV: The Lass of Richmond Hill-Dignum

4238
27 May 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Borselli, Costa, Torregiani, Sga Borselli, Sga Del'Acqua, Sga Sestini. [Libretto (D. Stuart, 1787) lists the parts: Bastiano Ammazzagatte, Mons. Perruque, Don Berlicco, Gelinda, Mlle Neri, Mlle Pate.]Libretto (D. Stuart, 1787) lists the parts: Bastiano Ammazzagatte, Mons. Perruque, Don Berlicco, Gelinda, Mlle Neri, Mlle Pate.]
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Borselli, Costa, Torregiani, Sga Borselli, Sga Del'Acqua, Sga Sestini.

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17900515; End Opera: The Generous Slave-Blake [see17900513], Duquesney, Labourie, Mlle de'Caro, Mlle Dorival, Mlle Hilligsberg

4239
03 June 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Cast
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Song: End I afterpiece: Tho' Bacchus may boast (composed by Shield)-Duffey; End II: Mad Tom (composed by Purcell)-Duffey

4240
16 July 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: A Merry Sketch of Folly and Fashion

Performance Comment: Lee Lewes. In which will be exhibited Characters and Caricatures, many of them entirely new, and others selcted from Subjects of the most approved Wit and Humour. Two very astonishing figures will be introduced, of the late King of Prussia, and his General Ziethen; also the Propagation of a Lie, in Characters as large as life, with several whimsical Paintings in Transparency. The whole prepared for the East Indies, at a prodigious expense. The above two figures cost at Berlin 275 guineas.

4241
20 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement; Or, An Adventure At Margate

Afterpiece Title: Katherine and Petruchio

Song: In course of Evening: Sigh no more Ladies, Mistress Mine (both composed by Stevens)-Davies, Bannister, Waterhouse, Mrs Iliff, Mrs Bannister

Entertainment: Monologue. As17900816

4242
31 August 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: End: The Generous Sportsman, as17900722

4243
20 October 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Provocation

Performance Comment: As17901004, but Principal Characters-Miss _Rowson.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Miss _Rowson.

Dance: End I: The Irish Lilt-Mr Ratchford, Mrs Ratchford; In V: Dance of Forresters-

4244
04 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Fugitive

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Ryder, Blanchard, Wilson, Marshall, Powel, Rock, Farley, Cross, Johnstone, Miss Williams, Mrs Webb, Mrs Harlowe (1st appearance on this stage). [Larpent MS lists the parts: Baron Allstoff (acted by Wilson) (Diary, 5 Nov.), Gentleman, Theodore, Ralpho, Justice Yacobs, Count, Fritz, Slip, Turnkeys, Ballybough, Mme Yacobs, Julia, Ellen.]Larpent MS lists the parts: Baron Allstoff (acted by Wilson) (Diary, 5 Nov.), Gentleman, Theodore, Ralpho, Justice Yacobs, Count, Fritz, Slip, Turnkeys, Ballybough, Mme Yacobs, Julia, Ellen.]
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Ryder, Blanchard, Wilson, Marshall, Powel, Rock, Farley, Cross, Johnstone, Miss Williams, Mrs Webb, Mrs Harlowe

4245
23 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Performance Comment: [The Speaking Characters by Bannister, Johnstone, Wilson, Blanchard, Bernard, Rees (1st appearance on this stage), Mrs Harlowe, Mrs Martyr. Cast from Songs (For the Author [1790]); Clueline-Bannister; Capt. Frederick-Johnstone; Sir Fidget Fearful-Wilson; Gregory-Blanchard; Flambeau-Bernard; Whim-Rees; Squire Thicket-Incledon; Sophia-Mrs Harlowe; Peggy-Mrs Martyr; Female Indian-Mrs Mountain; [With Dialogue-; [to introduce the following favourite Songs, selected, written and composed (with new accompaniments) by Dibdin: PART I. The Lamplighter[, I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter-Bernard; Peggy Perkins[, Let Bards elate-Blanchard; Irish Drinking Song[, Of the Ancients its speaking-Johnstone; Tom Bowling[, Here a shere Hulk lies poor Tom Bowling-Bannister; Comic Song[, How much I love thee-Wilson; Taffy and Griddy[, Abergavenny is fine-Mrs Martyr; [PART II. Hunting Song[, To Batchelor's Hall-Incledon; Sea Song[, Ben Backstay lov'd the gentle Anna-Bannister; The Portrait[, Come, Painter, with thy happiest flight-Incledon; The Soldier's Grave[, Of all Sensations Pity brings-Incledon; [Conclude with Rural Masquerade-[in which the following Airs will be sung in character; The Greenwich Pensioner[, 'Twas in the good ship Rover-Bannister; Indian Song[, Dear Yanco says, and true he says-Mrs Mountain; The Masquerade[, Sure an't the World a Masquerade-Johnstone, Chorus; Occasional Prologue-Farren.

Dance: In afterpiece: Dancing-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

4246
26 November 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Performance Comment: As17901124, but added to Speaking Characters: Incledon; in PART II, The Greenwich Pensioner in place of Sea Song; in Masquerade, Sea Song, A Sailor's life's a life of woe-Mrs Harlowe, in place of The Greenwich Pensioner.
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Miss _Rowson.

Dance: As17901123

Song: Johnstone, Incledon, Marshall, Rock, Blurton, Letteney, Lee, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Warrell, Miss Stuart, Mrs Watts, Mrs Byrne, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Powell, Miss Francis, Miss Lefevre, Mrs Cross, Mrs Gray, Mrs Masters, Mrs Martyr

4247
01 December 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan

Dance: As17901026

4248
17 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

4249
22 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Performance Comment: As17901220, but Vocal Characters-Rock; St. Alban-_; Captain O'Leary-_; Patrick-_; Catherine-_; Louisa-_; Shoe@Black-_; Dancing Nymphs-Mrs _Lloyd[. The rest by the Chief Part of the principal Performers of the Company. +Prologue as17901220.. The rest by the Chief Part of the principal Performers of the Company. +Prologue as17901220.
Cast
Role: Vocal Characters Actor: Rock
Role: Vocal Characters Actor: Bannister, Incledon, Davies, Blanchard, Cubitt, Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Warrell, Miss Huntley, Miss Barnet

4250
11 February 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Cast
Role: Vocal Characters Actor: Rock
Role: Vocal Characters Actor: Bannister, Incledon, Davies, Blanchard, Cubitt, Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Warrell, Miss Huntley, Miss Barnet

Song: III: Epithalamium. Vocal Parts-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; the Music by Shield