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703 results for: Keyword - Handel's
We found 291 matches on Event Comments, 196 matches on Performance Title, 184 matches on Performance Comments, 77 matches on Author, and 73 matches on Roles/Actors.

401
13 December 1739 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performance Comment: Acis-Beard; Galatea-Signora Francescina; Polyphemus-Reinhold; Damon-The Boy (Deutsch, Handel, p. 492; Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p.177); With two new Concertos for several Instruments-never perform'd before; The last New Ode of Mr Dryden's-; And a Concerto on the Organ-.

402
07 February 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lallegro Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato

403
04 April 1741 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

404
08 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Song: In II: Lowe; III: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe

Dance: III: Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: Peasants-Muilment

405
02 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: RRoyal family attended.-Deutsch, Handel, p. 561. The new Oratorio...has been performed four Times to more crouded Audiences than ever were seen; more People being turned away for Want of Room each Night than hath been at the Italian Opera.-Quoted by Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 350, from Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 15 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

Music: Solo on Violin-Dubourg

406
16 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Last time of performing the Oratorio this season. The Subscribers to Mr Handel's six former performances, who intend to continue their subscription on the same conditions for six more, are desired to send their subscription money to Mr Handel's House in Brook Street, where attendance will be given this day [15 March] in order to deliver out their subscription tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

407
16 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Saul

Performance Comment: Parts were: Saul-; Jonathan-; David-; High Priest-; Abner-; Messenger-; Apparition of Samuel-; Amalekite-; Michal-; Merab-; Abiathar-; Witch of Endor- (Larpent MS.). [For probable singers, see Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, pp. 299-300.]For probable singers, see Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, pp. 299-300.]

Music: Concerto on Organ-

408
09 February 1745 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lincostanza Deluza

409
20 March 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joseph And His Brethren

Performance Comment: Parts were: Pharaoh-; Joseph-; Reuben-; Simeon-; Judah-; Benjamin-; Potiphera-; Phanor-; Asenath-; Chorus of Egyptians-; Hebrews-. [See Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, pp. 407-8.]See Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, pp. 407-8.]

410
12 November 1747 @ King's Theatre

Performances

411
26 February 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Performance Comment: Parts were: Judas-; Israelite Man-; Israelite Woman-; Chorus-; Simon- (brother to Judas); Messenger-; Eupolemus- (Jewish Ambassador to Rome). (Larpent MS) [Winton Dean in Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, pp. 471-72, adds Second Israelite Woman and Priest, noting that Madam Frasi sang the part of the first Israelite woman.]Winton Dean in Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, pp. 471-72, adds Second Israelite Woman and Priest, noting that Madam Frasi sang the part of the first Israelite woman.]

Afterpiece Title: a Ca Concerto

412
09 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joshua

413
24 February 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hercules

Afterpiece Title: a C Concerto

414
03 March 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Afterpiece Title: Concerto

415
21 April 1749 @ Vauxhall Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

416
01 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

417
01 May 1750 @ The Chapel at the Foundling's Hospital, or at the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

418
11 March 1755 @ The Great Room, Dean Street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Song: I: Praise the Lord- accompanied by Parry

Music: II: Concerto (Arne) on Harpsichord-Miss Turner

419
31 January 1758 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Solimano

Dance: Signora Forti, Signora Bonomi, Grimaldi, Signora Lescot

420
10 February 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Time And Truth

421
06 March 1758 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: Concerto on the Organ-Stanley

422
18 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing till the Holidays. Receipts: #119 5s. Rec'd 10 nights' rent from Mr Handel's Oratorios at #25 per night, #250, plus #2 2s. for Coals used for the Oratorios. Barry's 1!3 of the surplus this night came to #13 1s. 8d. Paid 54 Old Rentners' interest on 54 shares for Handel's Oratorios at 1s. 8d. per share, or #5 8s. per night, for 10 night, #54. [Mrs Lecuss came in as a regular renter for 1 share.] (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

423
16 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nabal

Music: As17640309

424
18 March 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea With Drydens Ode

Music: End Part I: Concerto on French Horn-Ponta; End Act II: Concerto on Violincello-Janson

425
01 March 1787 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Giulio Cesare In Egitto

Dance: End I: a new ballet, representing The Muses on Mount Parnassus-; End Opera: a new ballet, The Triumph of Julius Caesar-