SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "M and Mlle Mechel"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "M and Mlle Mechel")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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We found 1716 matches on Performance Title, 643 matches on Performance Comments, 124 matches on Event Comments, 8 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Mlle Roland; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Mlle Roland, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Second

Cast
Role: Northumberland Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Bridges, Blakes and Cross, prompter. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Hobson at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: Mlle Auguste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: Mlle Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: Mlle Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Pazzie D'orlando

Dance: Mlle Constance Chollet (a principal dancer will make her first appearance this Evening)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori

Dance: Mlle Heinel will dance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Carnovale Di Venezia

Dance: Mlle Heinel will dance; by Desire Provenzal-Slingsby, Sga Radicatti (being his 1st appearance on this stage these two years)

Event Comment: By the unfortunate death of her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales a temporary stop was put to theatrical entertainments to this day. Opera will be performed at this theatre three times or at least twice every week till Passion Week. Such of the Nobility and Gentry, subscribers to the Opera who do not care to keep their Boxes on the Thursday, and have the extra weekly performance reckoned into their Subscription nights are desired to send word

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Felosofo Di Campagna

Dance: Mlle Heinel will dance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Filosofo Di Campagna

Dance: Mlle Heinel will dance

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Viaggiatori

Dance: Mlle Heinel will dance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Pazzie D'orlando

Dance: Mlle Heinel As17720404

Event Comment: A Serious Opera. Music by Several eminent composers, executed under the direction of Giordani. The opera was not performed because of Millico's illness. He was suddenly taken ill with a cold and hoarseness (Public Advertiser, 22 April). [Le Pazzie D'Orlando was substituted.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse; Or, Le Pazzie D'orlando

Performance Comment: Arbaces?-Millico? (first time in England); Mandane?-Signora Grassi?.
Cast
Role: Mandane? Actor: Signora Grassi?.
Related Works
Related Work: Artaserse Author(s): Ferdinando Bertoni

Dance: Mlle Heinel, other principals

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

Cast
Role: Mandane? Actor: Signora Grassi?.
Related Works
Related Work: Artaserse Author(s): Ferdinando Bertoni

Dance: Mlle Heinel, other principals, Slingsby, Sga Guidi, Sga Crispi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments Of Music And Dancing

Performance Comment: Songs, Catch, and Vocal Parts As17910602 but Vocal Parts-_Albertarelli.

Dance: End I: La Fete Provencale, as17910514; with The Devonshire Minuet-Vestris Sen., Mlle Dorival; End II: Les Folies d'Espagne-Victor, Mlle Mozon, Vermilly, Mlle Dorival, Mlle Hilligsberg

Performance Comment: , Mlle Dorival; End II: Les Folies d'Espagne-Victor, Mlle Mozon, Vermilly, Mlle Dorival, Mlle Hilligsberg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Cast
Role: Sands Actor: Miller

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Afterpiece Title: Taste a la Mode

Performance Comment: Mlle La Modestie-Harlequin Phillips; Mons Flip-Flap-Towers; Somerset-Roberts; Mons Roundall-Hough .

Dance: II: Double Jealousy, as17360327but Mrs Villeneuve replaces Miss Brett

Cast
Role: His Wife Actor: Mlle Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Performance Comment: Mlle Florival-Miss Ambrose; Bell-Mrs Egerton; Emily-Miss Pope; Prattle-King; Col. Tamper-Palmer; Belford-Packer.
Cast
Role: Mlle Florival Actor: Miss Ambrose

Dance: V: Comic Dance, as17720922

Event Comment: "Last night the Proprietors of this undertaking saw company to the number we imagine of Four Thousand Persons...Davide, in the Opera of Pirro, engrossed the whole of the applause that so matchless a singer may well merit" (Oracle, 11 Mar.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pirro

Dance: Divertisement, Orpheus and Eurydice-Vestris Jun., Mlle Hilligsberg [and see17910326

Performance Comment: , Mlle Hilligsberg [and see17910326.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Dance: g's The German Camp-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Mechel, Salomon's Son; The Vintage-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Muilment, Mechel

Event Comment: Receipts: #75 10s. (Account Book); #90 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And His Three Daughters

Dance: YYorkshire Maggot-Haughton, Mlle Roland; Wooden Shoe Dance-Mechel; Le Bergeres Fidele-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Louvre-Signora Barberini

Event Comment: Benefit Delane. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. Receipts: money #78 12s.; seals #81 10s. (Account Book); #162 (Rylands MS.). [According to the Account Book, Delane received a Free Benefit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Rosco
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Wooden Shoe Dance-Mechel; III: Kilkenny-Glover, Mlle Roland; V: Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

Song: In II: Roberts

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Roland and Mrs Vincent. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: A New Farce, interspersed With Songs. [Author not known. Apparently not published.] Receipts: money #28 10s.; seals #85 5s. (Account Book); #120 Rylands MS.: The Whim Damn'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: Sir John-Bridgwater; Constant-Hale; Heartfree-Ryan; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Bellamy; Lady Brute-Mrs Horton; Belinda-Mrs Vincent; Mademoiselle-Mlle Roland, the first time of her speaking on the English stage.

Afterpiece Title: The Whim; or, The Merry Cheat

Song: Leveridge, Salway

Dance: Glover, Mlle Roland, Mechel

Event Comment: Profits subscribed to the Veteran Scheme at Guildhall. Mrs Cibber to Garrick, 11 Dec.: Though Mr Rich had no performance at his house...Drury Lane Playhouse was not above half full till the latter account. Then it was a good house but not near so great as we had all last winter to the Orphan. He had built up the stage, but as nobody came there he shut in a flat scene to hide it, and the next day he played the Tender Husband to fifteen pounds.-Boaden, Private Correspondence of Garrick, I, 46

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Lowe, Mrs Clive

Dance: Muilment, Mechel, Miss Mechel

Event Comment: Benefit Muilment. Tickets to be had of him at the Angel in King-Street, Covent Garden; and of Hobson at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: I: Lowe; III: Lowe

Dance: II: Grand New Dance-Muilment, Miss Mechel; IV: Muilment; V: By Particular Desire, a Ball Dance call'd The Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-Muilment, Miss Mechel