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3781 results for: Keyword - Grand Master
We found 2328 matches on Performance Title, 1576 matches on Performance Comments, 651 matches on Event Comments, 1 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3701
01 March 1777 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Opera: The Music by several eminent Masters [Giordani, Traetta, Hasse, Vento]; under the Direction of Giardini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

Dance: End I: La Force de l'Amour, as17761214; End II: Serious Ballet, as17770225; End Opera: Les Amusemens Champetres, as17761102

Cast
Role: a Grand Serious Ballet Actor: Mons Simonet, Mme Simonet

3702
20 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Some of the Audience having objected to the Omission of a Scene on Friday night, that Scene will be restored this Evening. [Public Advertiser, 18 Oct., specifies the scene as that of Diana Trapes in Act III, the exclusion of whom "breaks a principal Link in the Chain of the Plot."] Paid Guard [master carpenter] for Scene-men #19 15s. Receipts: #287 16s. (286.8; 1.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End: As17771001

3703
28 November 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Serious Opera [1st time; SER 3, by Pietro Metastasio; a pasticcio]. The Music by Bertoni and other eminent Masters [Myslivecek, Monza, Sarti]. 'Pacchierotti, who on this night made his 1st appearance in London, was] conscious that the chief delight of singing, and his own supreme excellence, lay in touching expression, and exquisite pathos...As an actor, with many disadvantages of person, for he was tall and awkward in his figure, and his features were plain, he was nevertheless forcible and impressive: for he felt warmly, had excellent judgment, and was an enthusiast in his profession. His recitative was inimitably fine, so that even those who did not understand the language could not fail to comprehend, from his countenance, voice, and action, every sentiment he expressed" (Mount-Edgcumbe, pp.24-25)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

Dance: End II: La Noche Hollandoise, as17781124; End Opera: a New Ballet, connected with the Opera,-Mons Simonet, Mme Simonet, Banti, Sga Tinti

Ballet: End I: Annette et Lubin. As17781124

3704
29 May 1779 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Opera: The Music by Bertoni and other eminent Masters [Paisiello and Gluck]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Dance: End I: Les Paysans Voles, as17790515, but _Banti, LeDet; End II: +Les Moissonneurs, as17781229; End Opera: a New Divertisement-Simonet, Banti, Mlle Baccelli

3705
04 October 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Guard [master carpenter] of Scene Men #28 19s. 2d. Receipts: #216 12s. (214.6; 2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17790929

3706
25 September 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, announced on playbill of 22 Sept.] Afterpiece: The Overture and the rest of the music composed by Dr Fisher. Paid Music 22nd Inst. #7 15s. 4d.; Properties 22nd Inst. 9s. 8d.; Wardrobe #6 11s. 6d.; Supernumeraries #1 19s.; Chorus Singers #1 5s.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scene Men #10 19s. 5d. Receipts: #194 13s. 6d. (193.18.0; 0.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17800921; Afterpiece: Dancing-Harris, Langrish, Miss Besford, Miss Matthews

3707
24 September 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Trew's 1st appearance on the stage was at this theatre, 24 Nov. 1780.] Paid Properties 4s. 4d.; Wardrobe #5; Supernumeraries #1 11s. 6d.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scene Men #11 6s. 4d. Receipts: #208 8s. (207/6/6; 1/1/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Marriage Act

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene incident to the Play and a Minuet by Aldridge and Miss Besford. [These were included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Song: End of Act iv of mainpiece Juliet's Funeral Procession with the Solemn Dirge. Vocal Parts by Mattocks, Reinhold, Davies, Robson, J. Wilson, Baker, Darley, Doyle, Simpkinson; Miss Harper, Mrs Martyr, Miss Morris, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Kennedy

3708
16 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Nash, Helme, Daglish, Dale, Brigg, Barthrope, Master Pulley, Mrs Lewis, Mrs Byrne will be taken. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Du-Bellamy as Lord Aimworth and Williames as Mervin, but on the Kemble playbill their names are deleted and MS annotations substitute Williames and Fawcett. This was Mrs Cargill's last appearance in London. Subsequently she acted in India.] Receipts: #231 17s. 6d. (32/8/0; 22/9/6; 0/15/0; tickets: 176/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece a Hornpipe, as17820314nd of mainpiece a Minuet by Brigg and A Young Lady (his Scholar [unidentified]); End of Act I of afterpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

3709
03 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Performance Comment: As17821226, but omitted: Spencer, Alfred, Master Wilson; Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Granger, Miss Simson, Miss Barnes .

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade and Dance proper to the Play

3710
23 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Miss Barnes, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Heard, Miss Richards, Dale, Stageldoir, Daglish, Kenny, Brigg, Master Wilson will be taken. Receipts: #211 14s. 6d. (27/5/0; 14/16/0; 0/7/6; tickets: 169/6/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17820917; End of Act iv Hornpipe by a Young Lady [unidentified] (Scholar of Brigg)

Song: End of mainpiece Tally Ho! by Miss Barnes

3711
24 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Harris, ballet-master and Principal Dancer, and Trew. Mainpiece: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon. Receipts: #286 18s. 6d. (97/15/6; tickets: 189/3/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Diversion a-la-Mode, as17821211, in which The Devonshire Minuet, as17821129, and variety of new Quadrilles, composed by Harris; End of Act iv, as17820925; End of mainpiece new Dance, composed by Harris, The Rival Nymphs, by Byrne, Ratchford, Harris, Mrs Ratchford, Miss Byrne, Miss Matthews

Song: As17821227, but Mrs Bannister [i.e. formerly Miss Harper (see17830129)]; omitted: Bannister

3712
26 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: End of mainpiece The Humours of Newmarket by Harris, Ratchford, Byrne, Miss Byrne, Miss Matthews

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Tally bo!, as17830516; End of Act IV Kate of Aberdeen by Master Bartheiemon

Performance Comment: , as17830516; End of Act IV Kate of Aberdeen by Master Bartheiemon .

3713
29 September 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Wardrobe #10 4s.; Supernumeraries #10 17s.; Chorus Singers #1 5s.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scene Men #36 0s. 6d. Receipts: #239 8s. 6d. (238/16/6; 0/12/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

3714
07 January 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, author unknown. MS not in Larpent; synopsis of action in Public Advertiser, 8 and 9 Jan.]: With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. To conclude with a Representation of the Repulse of the Spaniards before the Rock of Gibraltar [on 13 Sept. 1782; this was included in all subsequent performances]. The Music partly new [by William Shield, with overture by Carl Friedrich Baumgarten] and partly compiled from the best Masters. The Scenes designed and executed by Greenwood. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. Books of the Pantomime to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 4 June: Paid the Author of Harlequin Junior a Compliment on the Success #30. Receipts: #261 5s. 6d. (257/10/0; 3/8/0; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior; or, The Magis Cestus

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Miss Phillips

3715
04 March 1784 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Pacchierotti. Opera: A Serious Opera; the Music by several eminent Masters. Pit tickets will admit two persons to the 1st, and three to the 2nd Gallery; but no money to be returned. Tickets to be had of Pacchierotti, No. 7, Great Marylebone-street, near Cavendish-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

Music: Between the 1st and 2nd Acts a sonata on the harpsichord by Clementi

Dance: End of Act II Friendship leads to Love, as17831206, but omitted: Lepicq; End of Opera he Reveil du Bonheur, as17840203

Song: Pacchierotti will conclude the 1st Act with an entire new scene by Sarti; In Act III a song, composed by Handel, by Pacchierotti

3716
18 March 1784 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for D'Auberval, ballet-master. Opera: An entirely new Species of Entertainment, after the French style [1st time; ser 3, by Antonio Andrei]. The Music entirely new, composed by Rauzzini. [Libretto (H. Reynell, 1784) is entitled Alina; o sia, La Regina di Golconda.] The Scenery and Decorations devised and painted by Novosielski. The Dresses in character, and entirely new by Lupino. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of D'Auberval, No. 5, Great Pultney-street, Golden-square. To prevent all manner of confusion, the Subscribers are most respectfully entreated to give early notice, addressed as above, of their intention concerning their Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Regina Di Golconda

Dance: Three new ballets composed by D'Aubcrval. End of Act I Ballet [of Warriors] by Lepicq, Henry, Zuchelli, the two Miss Simonets, Mme Theodore; End of Act II Dance [of Shepherds] by Lepicq, Mme Simonet, D'Aubcrval (1st appearance), Mme Rossi, Vestris [Jun.], Mme Theodore; End of Opera The Four Ages of Man, in which a Pas de Trois of Chinese by Henry, Zuchelli, Blake. Childhood-the two Miss Simonets; Youth-Slingsby and Mme Theodore; Manhood-Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Vestris [Jun.]; Old Age-D'Auberval and Mme Simonet, who will dance to the celebrated Musette of Handel. To conclude with a Pas de Huit, in a stile entirely new, by the Couples who represent the Four Ages

3717
19 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts as17840227, but added: Master Guest .

Music: End of Part I concerto on the clarionet by Mahon

3718
24 March 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eliza

Performance Comment: Principal Parts as17840317but added: Master Farmer .

Music: As17840303athi

3719
24 April 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece When Pboebus the tops of the bills does adorn by Reinhold and Mrs Kennedy; End of Act ni Poor ThomasDay by Edwin, Brett, Bannister; End of Act IV Mad Tom by Reinhold; End of mainpiece Hark! the Lark at Heav'n's Gate sings, and What shall be have who kill'd the Deer?, both by Master Bartleman, Bannister, Brett, Davies, Mrs Kennedy

Performance Comment: the Lark at Heav'n's Gate sings, and What shall be have who kill'd the Deer?, both by Master Bartleman, Bannister, Brett, Davies, Mrs Kennedy .

3720
17 May 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Song: dl

Dance: Plutus-Staunton; Wit-Miss George; the Dance by Mr and Miss Hamoir. End of Act I of mainpiece New Hornpipe by Master Butler (Scholar of Miller); End of Act III The Soldier Tir'd, as17840414; End of mainpiece The Minuet de la Cour and Allemande by the Miss Stageldoirs

Performance Comment: End of Act I of mainpiece New Hornpipe by Master Butler (Scholar of Miller); End of Act III The Soldier Tir'd, as17840414; End of mainpiece The Minuet de la Cour and Allemande by the Miss Stageldoirs .

Song: In mainpiece an Interlude of

3721
21 May 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Harris, ballet master and principal dancer. Public Advertiser, 15 May: Tickets to be had of Harris at his house, No. 43, Wells-street, Cavendish-Square. Receipts: #179 4s. 6d. (42/14/6; tickets: 136/10/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a New Divertissement (composed by Harris) in which the Minuet de la Cour and a new Pas de Deux by Harris and Mme Bithmere; End of Act IV a new Pantomime Ballet (composed by Harris) The Charms of a Camp; or, The Female Volunteer by Harris, Byrn, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Goodwin, &c.; End of mainpiece, The Rival Nymphs, as17840318but Mrs Ratchford in place of Miss Matthews

3722
05 August 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Performance Comment: Biron-Williamson; Count Baldwin-Aickin; Carlos-Staunton (of DL); Child-D. Edwin [Public Advertiser: Master Edwin]; Sampson-Gardner; Belford-Davies; Villeroy-Palmer; Nurse-Mrs Love; Isabella-Mrs Wells (3rd appearance in tragedy, and 2nd in that part) .

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Music: End of Act II a concertante for clarinet and bassoon by Mahon

Song: In Act III of mainpiece an Epithalamium by Mrs Bannister and Miss George

Monologue: 1784 08 05 Previous to mainpiece an occasional Address (2nd time) by Mrs Wells

3723
11 March 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts as17850211, but added: Master Guest; Violin as17850211.

Music: End of Part I concerto on the Piano Forte ["the sixth concerto of Schroeter's last set [i.e. Op. V]" (London Magazine, Mar. 1785, p. 217)] by Miss Parke

3724
03 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [acted 2 Nov. 1781]. Paid Wardrobe #6 2s. 6d.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scenemen #17 15s. 11d. Receipts: #178 9s. (171/19; 6/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal

3725
08 December 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Cobb]: Some of the Airs compiled from the best Masters [Purcell, Sacchini, et al.]; the rest of the Music, the Overture, Accompaniments, &c. by Linley [Sen.]. [The scenery by Greenwood {Public Advertiser, 15 Dec). In 1792 this opera was altered by the author as The Algerine Slave.] Public Advertiser, 11 Jan. 1786: This Day is published The Strangers at Home (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #200 1s. (183/6/0; 16/10/0; 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strangers At Home

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage