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21 results for: Keyword - Hendel
We found 11 matches on Event Comments, 8 matches on Performance Title, 2 matches on Roles/Actors, 1 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

1
21 March 1717 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Performance Comment: See17170216, but With the Addition of a New Scene-; the Musick by Mr Hendel-Cavaliero Nicolino Grimaldi, Mrs Robinson.
Cast
Role: Mr Hendel Actor: Cavaliero Nicolino Grimaldi, Mrs Robinson.

Dance: deMirail's Scholar, Mlle Cerail

2
16 May 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

Music: With the Addition ofseveral New Songs-; particularly an Entertainment for the Harpsichord Compos'd by Mr Hendel on purpose for that Day-

3
22 February 1714 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-Eminent English and Foreign Masters; Among other choice Compositions, a celebrated Song of Mr Hendel's-a Gentlewoman from Abroad, who hath never before exposed her Voice publickly in this Kingdom; To which will be added an uncommon Piece of Musick by Bassoons only-

4
16 May 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth

Music: Concerto upon the Little Flute by Paisible-; Concerto intirely new, by Mr Hendel-

Dance: Weaver, Shaw, Wade, Topham, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger, Miss Tenoe

5
18 February 1719 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Hands; A new Concerto by Mr Hendel-Mathew Dubourg; Piece for Harpsicord-Cook; Concerto, Solo-Kytch; Solo Bass@Viol, German@Flute-Pietro

6
05 July 1721 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters; Particularly, Two new Cantatas by Mr Hendel and Sig Sandoni-; Four Songs, Six Duettos by the famous Signor Stefan-Signora Durastanti, Signor Senesino

7
04 April 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces of Musick-; accompanied with Trumpets Flutes German Flutes and French Horns-; Particularly Hendel's Water Musick-

Dance: As17211003

8
11 May 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Dance: SSpanish Dance-Young Lesac; Chacone-Miss Latour Dupre's Scholar; Shepherd and Shepherdess representing Acis and Galatea -Young Lesac, Miss Latour

Song: Mrs Barbier

Music: Set of Mr Hendel's Lessons on Harpsicord-Miss Latour , Scholar of Mr Troas

9
13 December 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Music: A Preamble on the Kettle-Drums, with Mr Hendel's Water-Musick on the Stage, by Mr J. Baker

Song:

Dance:

10
11 April 1717 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Cast
Role: Mr Hendel Actor: Cavaliero Nicolino Grimaldi, Mrs Robinson.

Dance: Glover, Mlle Cerail; particularly a Spanish Dance-

11
22 November 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Giacomo Rossi. Music by George Frederic Handel.] Never Perform'd before. Compos'd by Mr Hendel. Colman's Opera Register: This was not by Subscription but at ye usuall Opera Price of Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. The Scene represented only ye Country of Arcadia. ye Habits were old.--ye Opera Short. [Published as Pastor Fido.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherd

12
26 November 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Mr Hendel. Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Boxes on the Stage half a guinea. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherd

13
21 January 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: The Musick Composed by Mr Hendel. At the ordinary Prices, viz. The Boxes on the Stage Half a Guinea, the other Boxes 8s., the Pit 5s., the first Gallery 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

14
24 January 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: The Opera of Theseus composed by Mr Hendel will be represented in its Perfection, that is to say with all the Scenes, Decorations, Flights, and Machines. The Performers are much concerned that they did not give the Nobility and Gentry all the Satisfaction they could have wished, when they represented it on Wednesday last, having been hindered by some unforeseen Accidents at that time insurmountable

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

15
04 February 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: The Opera...Compos'd by Mr Hendel, will be Represented in its Perfection (that is to say) with all the Scenes, Decorations, Flights, and Machines

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

16
21 February 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Compos'd by Mr Hendel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherd

17
17 March 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Compos'd by Mr Hendel. With all the Scenes, Decorations, Flights, and Machines

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

18
17 October 1724 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Journal, 17 Oct.: We hear there is a new Opera now in Practice...called, Tamerlane, the Musick composed by Mynheer Hendel, and that Signior Borseni, newly arriv'd from Italy, is to sing the Part of the Tyrant Bajazet. N.B. It is commonly reported this Gentleman was never cut out for a Singer

Performances

19
23 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Egmont, II, 68: After dinner I went... to hear Hendel's Serenata composed in honour of the marriage, call'd Apollo and Daphnis. The Royal Family was all there, the Prince of Wales excepted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

20
28 March 1738 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Handel. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. London Evening Post, 30 March: Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales were present; there was the greatest and most polite Audience ever seen there, and it's thought Mr Handel cou'd not get less that Night than 15001. Egmont, Diary, II, 474: In the evening I went to Hendel's Oratorio, where I counted near 1,300 persons besides the gallery and upper gallery. I suppose he got this night 1,000 1. [For further details, see Deutsch, Handel, p. 455.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Oratorio

Music: With a Concert on the Organ-

21
18 January 1739 @ Crown Tavern

Event Comment: EEgmont, Diary, III, 5: I went at night to a public meeting of the vocal music club at the Crown Tavern, where the famous oratorio of Hendel, called 'The Feast of Alexander," was performed by the gentlemen of our club

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Alexander