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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Francis Veracini"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Francis Veracini")') 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

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1829 results for: Keyword - Francis Veracini
We found 996 matches on Author, 692 matches on Performance Comments, 98 matches on Event Comments, 91 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

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25 November 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [By Metastasio. Music by Francis Veracini. For a full account of this opera and opera in general, see Ilchester, Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 238-39.] Daily Advertiser, 26 Nov.: Their Majesties, his Royal Highness, and the Princesses [attended] Adriano, compos'd by the famous Signior Veracini, who perform'd the first Fiddle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

2
14 March 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Francis Veracini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Partenio

Related Works
Related Work: Partenio Author(s): Francis Veracini

3
16 December 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 15 Dec: The Opera of Adriano, now performing with great Applause, particularly for some fine Songs in it, compos'd for Signior Farinello, having been thought by the King to be rather too long, M. Veracini has shorten'd it, and his Majesty has declar'd his Intention of being present at it [Tuesday 16]. We hear, that after this Opera has had its run, there will be a new one call'd Mithridates, the Drama of which is wrote in English by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureat, and translated from thence into Italian

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

4
31 January 1744 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Adapted from As You Like It, by Rolli; music by Veracini (Nicoll, Early Eighteenth Century Drama, p. 398).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosalinda

Related Works
Related Work: Rosalinda Author(s): Francis Veracini

5
03 September 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Farce of 2 Acts [Francis Gentleman]. Benefit for Mrs Jewell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Performance Comment: Parts-Foote, Davis, Hamilton, LaMash, Fearon, Osborne, Bolton, Lloyd, Follett, Pierce, Francis, Weston.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Foote, Davis, Hamilton, LaMash, Fearon, Osborne, Bolton, Lloyd, Follett, Pierce, Francis, Weston.

Afterpiece Title: The Pantheonites

Performance Comment: Daniel Drugger(great grandson to Abel Drugger)-Weston; Sir Francis-Ward; Skinflint-Lloyd; Tillwell-Bannister; Frisseau-Jacobs; Dicky Drugger-Miss Francis; Tim Tillwell-Fearon; Anna-Miss Platt; Lissni-Miss Craven; Mrs Drugger-Mrs Williams.
Cast
Role: Sir Francis Actor: Ward
Role: Dicky Drugger Actor: Miss Francis
Related Works
Related Work: The Pantheonites Author(s): Francis Gentleman

Entertainment: I: A Variety of Imitations-Hutton; II: O What a Charming Thing's a Battle-Bannister; Between Play and Farce: Dancing of The Tambourine-Giorgi's Scholars; End of Interlude: A New Tambourine-Giorgi's Scholars

Monologue: 1773 9 3 Also the Interlude, Piety in Pattens. As 23 Aug

6
29 November 1735 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

7
02 December 1735 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

8
06 December 1735 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

9
09 December 1735 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

10
13 December 1735 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

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20 December 1735 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

12
27 December 1735 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

13
30 December 1735 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

14
07 February 1736 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

15
10 February 1736 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

16
14 February 1736 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

17
17 February 1736 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

18
21 February 1736 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

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24 February 1736 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

20
28 February 1736 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

21
18 May 1736 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

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22 May 1736 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

23
25 May 1736 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

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29 May 1736 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Related Works
Related Work: Adriano Author(s): Francis Veracini

25
18 March 1738 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Partenio

Related Works
Related Work: Partenio Author(s): Francis Veracini