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Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@151, p. 369. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 352. The MS music composed for a revival of this play, apparently at this time, by G. Finger and Daniel Purcell, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: A copy of the 1690 quarto (New York Public Library) has the following MS cast which may well pertain to this season: Alexander-Mountfort; Lysimachus-Williams; Hephestion-Bowman; Cassander-Powell; Statira-Mrs Bracegirdle; Roxana-Mrs Barry.
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Role: Alexander Actor: Mountfort
Role: Cassander Actor: Powell
Event Comment: The United Company. Newdigate newsletters, 11 June 1692: And on Monday [the Princess Anne] comes to see the new opera (Wilson, More Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 59)

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Mainpiece Title: The Fairy Queen

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is known from testimony in the trial of Charles Lord Mohun for the attack on William Mountfort on 9 Dec. 1692. The evidence given by Brereton at the trial stated: I had not seen my Lord Mohun for two or three days before this Fact was committed;...but the Friday before, the Play of Alexander the Great was Acted, and my Lord Mohun and I were talking of the Play, and he said it was a good Play, and he commended Mr Mountford's Acting extreamly (The Tryal of Charles Lord Mohun [London, 1693], p. 26)

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Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Mountfort.
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Role: Alexander Actor: Mountfort.
Event Comment: Christopher Rich's Company. The date of this revival is not certain. Apparently the revival was in preparation before the division of the company, but the publication of the Songs in 1695 confines the production to the period between mid-April and the late autumn. For the opera, see The Works of John Dryden, Vol. VIII: The Plays, edited by John Harrington Smith and Dougald MacMillan (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1692), pp. 325-30; Moore, Henry Purcell and the Restoration Theatre, Chapter VI;and Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, Vol. XIX. The Songs (1695), the music by Henry Purcell, lists the following pieces and singers: I, Wake, wake, Quivera, sung by Freeman. I, Why shou'd men quarrel, sung by The Boy, with Flutes. Their looks are such that mercy flows, sung by Freeman. II, I come to sing, sung by Freeman. Scorn'd Envy here's nothing, sung by Freeman. Begone, curst Feinds of Hell, sung by Freeman. III, Ah, how happy we are, sung by Freeman and Church. I attempt from Love's sickness to fly, sung by Mrs Cross. IV, They tell us that you mighty powers above, sung by Mrs Cross. In addition, other parts of the opera appeared elsewhere: Act V, a Masque, set by Daniel Purcell, O Bless the Genial Bed with chast delights, in Deliciae Musicae, First Book of the Second Volume, 1696. [The others, since they do not name the performers, are omitted here.

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Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

Performance Comment: BM Add. Mss. 31,449, contains a cast (possibly a proposed cast): The Ynca of Peru-Mills; Montezuma-Powell; Acacis-Harland; Garrucca-Disney; God of Dreams-Bowen; Ismeron-Leveridge; Zempoalla-Mrs Knight?; Orazia-Mrs Rogers; Prologue-Indian Boy and Girl; Epilogue-.
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Role: The Ynca of Peru Actor: Mills
Role: Acacis Actor: Harland
Role: Prologue Actor: Indian Boy and Girl
Event Comment: Rich's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Man, 2-5 July 1698, suggests that the first performance probably occurred not later than June 1698

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Mainpiece Title: The Revengeful Queen

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Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

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Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

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Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The Queen's Coronation Song: Composed and-Mr Abell; ....With other Songs in several Languages-; Accompanied-the Greatest Masters of Instrumental Musick

Performance Comment: ...With other Songs in several Languages-; Accompanied-the Greatest Masters of Instrumental Musick.

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Mainpiece Title: The Fairy Queen (one Act)

Afterpiece Title: Marriage a la Mode (made into two acts)

Song: Singing in Italian and French-Signora Joanna Maria; accompanied-Gasperini, Saioni

Dance: As17030123

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lee. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 29 May, the admission had been advertised as boxes 6s., pit 4s., gallery 2s. 6d., but on 31 May Daily Courant stated that "all seal'd Tickets that have been dispos'd of by Mrs Lee" at these rates "shall be accounted for" at 5s., 3s., 2s.

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Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Song: Singing In Italian the Famous-Signiora Maria Margarita Gallia , lately arriv'd from Italy, who has never yet Sung in England; the Musick which accompanies her Singing is compos'd by Signior Joseph Saggion-

Dance: The Wedding Dance, compos'd by Monsieur L'Abbe,-Monsieur L'Abbe, Mrs Elford

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Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens

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Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens

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Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens

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Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens

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Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens

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Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens

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Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: Alexander-Wilks; Clitus-Griffin.
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Role: Alexander Actor: Wilks

Song: Songs by Henry Purcell-Leveridge

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music Essential to the Play-

Dance: duRuel, Mrs duRuel, Cherrier, others

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills and Mrs Shaw. Written by the late Great Poet Mr Dryden

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Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

Performance Comment: Celadon-Wilks; a new Prologue-Pinkeman representing a French Officer (in the Service of the Elector of Bavaria) just before the Engagement at Donawert; and an Epilogue-Pinkeman personating the same Officer after the Battle.

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Event Comment: Benefit Short and Mrs Willis

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Mainpiece Title: Madam Fickle; Or, The Witty False One

Song: The Turky/Cock Music-Mrs Willis; a comical country dialogue-Mrs Willis, Cook; a song-older of Mrs Willis' daughters; Eccles' three-part song set for the Queen's Birthday-Short, Cook, Davis

Dance: Irish Trot-younger of Mrs Willis' daughters, age five

Event Comment: Written by the late Great Poet Mr Dryden

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Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

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Event Comment: [Authorship uncertain. According to the dedicatory essay in 1705 edition it was left unfinished by Mountfort?," but the Diverting Post, 28 Oct., states that it was written by Mrs Mary Pix. This is probably the premiere. It was acted four times before 18 Nov., but on which evenings is unknown.

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Mainpiece Title: Zelmane; Or, The Corinthian Queen

Event Comment: After the Italian manner, All sung, being set to Musick by Master Clayton. No Person to be admitted into the Boxes or Pit but by the Subscriber's Tickets. The Boxes on the Stage and the Galleries are for the Benefit of the Actors. [Premiere of the opera.

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Mainpiece Title: Arsinoe, Queen Of Cyprus

Dance: l'Abbe, duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Mrs duRuel, Mrs Moss

Song: Before and after Opera: Singing in Italian and English-

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Mainpiece Title: Arsinoe, Queen Of Cyprus

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Mainpiece Title: Arsinoe, Queen Of Cyprus