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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "G Colman Esq"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "G Colman Esq")') 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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3053 results for: Keyword - G. Colman Esq.
We found 2187 matches on Author, 724 matches on Event Comments, 236 matches on Performance Comments, 45 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2926
13 December 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Not advertised in Daily Courant, but performance inferred in Colman's Opera Register.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

2927
31 December 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [No advertisement of this performance. Nicoll, p. 392, lists this opera, although Colman's Opera Register does not verify it.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

2928
26 February 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Dedication signed by John James Heidegger.] By Subscription. Never Perform'd before. Colman's Opera Register: Monr John James Heidegger managed both this & ye former Opera for ye Singers & ye Subscription was for Six Nights paying 10 Guin for 3 Tickets each Night, they not to give out above 400 Tickets a Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

2929
14 March 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: By Subscription. Colman's Opera Register: The House was very full all these Nights [28 Feb.-14 March]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

2930
28 March 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Pelotti. Admission as 21 March. Colman's Opera Register: Ye House was very full this Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

2931
18 April 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: With all the Scenes, Decorations, Flights, and Machines. Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Stage Boxes half a guinea. Colman's Opera Register: A thin House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

2932
09 January 1714 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

Performance Comment: Silvio-Signora Catherina Galerati lately arriv'd from Italy; Nicea-Signora del'Epine. [Colman's Opera Register adds Mrs Barbier, Valentino, without assigning roles.]Colman's Opera Register adds Mrs Barbier, Valentino, without assigning roles.]

2933
04 March 1714 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Dedication by John James Heidegger.] By Subscription. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 5s. Colman's Opera Register: By subscription for six times at ye usuall rate of 10 Guin for 3 Tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminius

2934
20 November 1714 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 26 Oct. Colman's Opera Register: ye Prince & Princess of Wales present, ye House not near full. Ye New Singers...meet with little applause as yet Mrs Robinson not singing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

2935
11 December 1714 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. Admission as 26 Oct. Colman's Opera Register: Ye Prince & Princess present, ye House extraordinary full

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminius

Dance: As17141204

2936
18 December 1714 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 26 Oct. Colman's Opera Register: Ye Prince & Princess went to ye Play this Night--ye Opera had but a thin House with Dancing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

Dance:

2937
15 January 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. Colman's Opera Register: Ye King, Prince & Princess present, & a full House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

2938
26 February 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Composer unknown. Text by Zeno.] By Subscription. By His Royal Highness's Command. Admission to Pit and Boxes by Ticket only. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 2s. 6d. The Book of the Opera given out with tickets. At 6:30 p.m. Colman's Opera Register: ye Musick managed by Nic Haym

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

2939
09 April 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. By Command. With the Original Mad-Scenev. Admission as 2 April. Colman's Opera Register: Ye House & ye stage full ye King, Prince, &c. present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

2940
11 May 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. Admission as 26 Oct. 1714. Colman's Opera Register: Ye House extraordinary full

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

2941
11 June 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Subscription, as 25 May. According to Colman's Opera Register, 28 May, Mrs Robinson was ill and did not perform again during this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

2942
18 June 1715 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Performance Comment: Advertised, but Colman's Opera Register states that intense heat between 15 and 25 June postponed the operas.

2943
23 July 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Listed only in Colman's Opera Register: No Opera performed since ye 23 July, ye Rebellion of ye Tories and Papists being ye cause--ye King and Court not liking to go into such Crowds these troublesome times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

2944
15 January 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Translation by Samuel Humphreys.] Wherein the Cloaths and Scenes are all entirely New. Colman's Opera Register: But did not draw much Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aetius

2945
23 May 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Zeno. Music probably by Caldara, with recitatives by Handel.] Colman's Opera Register: a New Opera Handell it did not take

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Papirius, The Dictator

2946
25 November 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] Colman Opera Register: a full House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

2947
28 November 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [The Royal Family present.] Colman Opera Register: A thin House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

2948
24 December 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: [no Performance

Performance Comment: ChristmasEve (Cross Diary). This day was dedicated for rehearsing the New Pantomime called the Rites of Hecate. In our practices we found such a total want of Business and Incidents to carry on the story from one scene to another were obliged to call the good natured Mr Colman to our aid, as we could get no assistance from the Author, Mr Love, who seems not to have the least genius in contriving any thing of that Kind.-The whole day spent till eleven o'clock that night in [a word illegible] and everbody threw in their mite, and made it as well as the short time would allow (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan) .

2949
03 December 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [R$Ross this month wrote to Colman (Harvard Theatre Collection A.L.S.) inquiring about an intended new theatre at Bath, and opened his heart as follows: "My present situation is most irksome to me and must be to any gentleman or man of merit in his profession to have such an ignorant and now ill-bred fellow as Beard? presume to conduct the business of a theatre Royal, of which he is totally ignorant, and oblig'd to apply to the great Gibson, who naturally wishes to lower every man to his own standard, while the other despises every degree of merit that is not compris'd in Sol fa and wishes the theatre only to substitute as an Opera house." Ross wanted to be nominated for the manager's postition in the new theatre at Bath. N.B. He had already acted 23 times this season in his best parts.

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

2950
04 March 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Published at 1s. 6d. by Garrick and Colman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage