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7103 results for: Keyword - George Frederick Handel, Esq
We found 4736 matches on Author, 1398 matches on Performance Comments, 1216 matches on Event Comments, 378 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5401
17 May 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Mr Handel. With all the Grand Chorus's, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations, being the first Time it ever was performed in a Theatrical Way. Pit and Boxes at 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

5402
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

5403
25 November 1732 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

Performance Comment: See presumed cast in Deutsch, Handel, p. 298.

5404
02 January 1733 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy

Performance Comment: A possible cast is in Deutsch, Handel, p. 302.

5405
28 February 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: End Part I: Preamble on the Kettledrums-Baker; End part II: Tollet's Grounds-; on one Kettle-Drum, accompanyed with a Hautboy and Violin, in Scaramouch and Harlequin Dresses. Concluding with Handel's Grand Water Musick-; Thumoth also plays on Trumpet and German Flute-Thumoth

Performance Comment: Concluding with Handel's Grand Water Musick-; Thumoth also plays on Trumpet and German Flute-Thumoth.

5406
03 March 1733 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

Performance Comment: Edition of 1733 does not list performers' names. See Deutsch, Handel, p. 307.

5407
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

5408
14 April 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Edition of 1733: The Musick formerly composed by Mr Handel, and now Revis'd by him with several Additions. The Additional Words by Mr Humphreys

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

5409
22 June 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 22 June: We hear that Subscriptions are actually in great forwardness for having two different Operas next Winter, one at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, under the Direction of Messrs Handel and Heydegger, and the other to be at one of the Playhouses, under the Management of Directors chosen from among the Subscribers

Performances

5410
26 June 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King paid #1,000 to the Opera in the Haymarket. See Deutsch, Handel, p. 317

Performances

5411
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

5412
27 October 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Related Works
Related Work: The Constant Couple; or, A Trip to the Jubilee Author(s): George Farquhar

Music: Second Musick: 4th Concerto of 2d Opera of Geminiani. Third Musick: Overture composed by Handel for Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Third Musick: Overture composed by Handel for Tamerlane .

Dance: I: La Bagatelle (new) by Essex and Miss Latour, her first appearance on that stage. III: Mock Minuet by Nivelon, Miss Robinson, F. Tench, Holt, Miss La Tour, Miss Mann. V: Les Amants Constants, as17331025

Song: II: Hush, Ye Little Warbling Choir by Miss Arne. IV: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond by Miss Arne

5413
19 November 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Music: Second Musick: 1st Concerto of Corelli. Third Musick: Overture compos'd by Handel for the Opera of Alexander. I: A Concerto call'd The Cuckoo by Vivaldi

Performance Comment: Third Musick: Overture compos'd by Handel for the Opera of Alexander. I: A Concerto call'd The Cuckoo by Vivaldi .

Dance: II: La Basetelle by Essex, and Miss La Tour. In V: Les Amants Constants by Essex, Houghton, Miss Robinson, F. Tench, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

Song: II: Limpio Rigor del Fato and Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond by Miss Arne. IV: Per le Porte del Tormento by Miss Arne and Master Arne

5414
01 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: Second Musick: 6th Concerto of the 1st Opera of Geminiani. Third Musick: Overture for Admetus by Handel. II: Se met turbo, a Song in Porus, on the Flute Traverse. IV: Concerto for Two Hautboys composed by Dr Pepusch

Performance Comment: Third Musick: Overture for Admetus by Handel. II: Se met turbo, a Song in Porus, on the Flute Traverse. IV: Concerto for Two Hautboys composed by Dr Pepusch .

Dance: I: La Bagatelle by Essex and Miss Latour. III: Les Bergeries by Essex, Miss Robinson, F. Tench, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Brett. In V: Mock Minuet, as17331027

5415
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

5416
26 January 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Music: Second Musick: the 8th Concerto of Corelli, commonly called The Natalia. Third Musick: Overture of Alexander, composed by Handel. III: The Cuckoo, composed by Vivaldi

Performance Comment: Third Musick: Overture of Alexander, composed by Handel. III: The Cuckoo, composed by Vivaldi .

Dance: II: Les Amants Constants, as17340123 In V: Grand Dance in Momus, as17331231

Song: I: Lusingue pui care by Miss Arne. IV: Sentir si Dire by Miss Arne

5417
26 January 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by F. Colman. Music by Handel.] Colman Opera Register: Ariadne in Crete a new Opera & very good & perform'd very often Sigr Carestino sung surprisingly well: a new Eunuch many times perform'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

5418
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]

5419
11 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: dvertiser, 11 March: We hear, amongst other publick Diversions that are prepaid for the Solemnity of the approaching Nuptials, there is to be perform'd [at King's, 13 March] a Serenata, call'd Parnasso in Festa: The Fable is Apollo and the Muses celebrating the Marriage of Thetis and Peleus. There is one standing Scene, which is Mount Parnassus, on which sit Apollo and the Muses, assisted with other proper Characters emblematically dress'd, the whole Appearance being extreamly magnificent; nor is the Musick less entertaining, being contriv'd with so great a Variety, that all sorts of Musick are properly introduc'd in single Songs, Duettoes, &c. intermix'd with Chorus's something in the Stile of Oratorios, People have been waiting with Impatience for this Piece, the celebrated Mr Handel having exerted his utmost Skill in it.hathiBenefit Delane. At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

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5420
20 March 1734 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Concertos by Corelli and Geminiani. Favourite Songs of Mr Handel's. Solo upon the German Flute and Violin. A Concerto, the Solo Part upon the Harpsichord

Performance Comment: Favourite Songs of Mr Handel's. Solo upon the German Flute and Violin. A Concerto, the Solo Part upon the Harpsichord .

5421
06 April 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Mr Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

5422
09 April 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Mr Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

5423
26 April 1734 @ Handel's Home

Event Comment: Mrs Pendarves, 27 April: Yesterday morning [26] at the rehearsal of a most delightful opera at Mr Handel's called Sosarme. Delany, Autobiography, I, 463

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarme

5424
27 April 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarmes

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but Deutsch, Handel, p. 364, reconstructs the cast: Sosarme-Carestini; Haliate-Signora Durastanti; Erenice-Signora Maria Caterina Negri; Elmira-Signora Strada; Argone-Scalzi; Melo-Signora Rosa Negri; Altomaro-Waltz .

5425
30 April 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs Pendarves, 30 April: I go to-night... to Sosarmes, an opera of Mr Handel's, a charming one, and yet I dare say it will be almost empty!

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarmes