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2188 results for: Keyword - Mlle Violette
We found 1652 matches on Performance Title, 640 matches on Performance Comments, 127 matches on Event Comments, 3 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

151
08 April 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Le Mar1age Force; ou, Les Fourberies d'Arlequin & de Scaramouch

Performance Comment: Arlequin-De Fompree, who has not appeared upon any Stage in England these Ten Years; at which Time he had the Honour of being received by the Nobility and Gentry with great Applause; Pierrot-Lalauze; Scaramouch-Pasquarielle; Pantaloon-Garrelli; Colombine-Mlle D'Hervigni; Sylvia-Mlle Delorme .
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mlle D'Hervigni
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mlle Delorme

Dance: I: Louvre and Tambourine by Mlle D'Hervigni. II: A new Comic Dance by Nivelon and a Scholar of his. III: A Serious Ballet by another Scholar of Nivelon's. V: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. End I of Afterpiece: Wooden Shoe Dance by another Scholar of Nivelon's. End of the Whole: Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover, &c

Performance Comment: II: A new Comic Dance by Nivelon and a Scholar of his. III: A Serious Ballet by another Scholar of Nivelon's. V: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. End I of Afterpiece: Wooden Shoe Dance by another Scholar of Nivelon's. End of the Whole: Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover, &c .

152
15 April 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Peasant by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. Shepherd and Shepherdess by Glover and Miss Rogers. French Peasants by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni

Performance Comment: Shepherd and Shepherdess by Glover and Miss Rogers. French Peasants by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni .

153
17 April 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton: With Harlequin Captive

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mlle Anne Roland, but see17360304

Dance: I: By Mlle Anne Roland. II: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. III: Shepherd's Mount by Essex, Mrs Walter, Mrs Anderson, &c

Performance Comment: II: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. III: Shepherd's Mount by Essex, Mrs Walter, Mrs Anderson, &c .

154
05 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mlle Anne Roland, but see17360304

Dance: I: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. II: Russian Sailor by Denoyer, &c. IV: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

Performance Comment: II: Russian Sailor by Denoyer, &c. IV: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c .

155
12 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Cast
Role: Mlle La Modestie Actor: Harlequin Phillips

Dance: Miller and his Wife by Poitier and Mlle Roland. Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

Performance Comment: Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c .

156
31 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Afterpiece Title: Taste a la Mode

Cast
Role: Mlle La Modestie Actor: Harlequin Phillips

Dance: I: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. II: French Peasants by Poitier and Mlle Roland

Performance Comment: II: French Peasants by Poitier and Mlle Roland .

157
23 August 1736 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fair Rosamond: Representing Her Amours With King Henry, And Her Being Poisoned By Queen Eleanor In Woodstock Bower

Afterpiece Title: The Modern Pimp; or, The Doctor Deceiv'd: With the Comical Humours of Crack the Pimp, Dr Grey-Goose, and Sir Nehemiah Nestle-Cock

Dance: I: Two Pierrots by Livier and Mlle Delorme. II: Wooden Shoe Dance by Livier and Janno. End of Afterpiece: Grand Peasant Dance by Livier, Janno, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Woodward

Performance Comment: II: Wooden Shoe Dance by Livier and Janno. End of Afterpiece: Grand Peasant Dance by Livier, Janno, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Woodward .

158
08 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mechel and Mlle Mechel. Receipts: #110

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: I: Les Jardiniers Suedois-the Mechels; II: A Grand Ball Dance-Mechel Sen, Mechel Jr, Mlle Mechel; IV: The Cuckow Dance-the Mechels; V: The German Hussar-the Mechels

Song: III: Song-Beard

159
11 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Verhuyck, Naylor, Duck, Banks (Pit and Gallery Doorkeepers). Tickets deliver'd out by Mlle Fabres. Miss Dodson, Miss Short, and Mr. Bowcher will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: CComic Dance, as17420510; Rigadone Provencale, as17420226; Minuet-Villeneuve, Mlle Fabres

160
07 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Auguste and Woodward

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: PPeasants, as17421230; New Grand Comic Ballet-Picq, Mlle Auguste

161
04 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Walter and Miss Bennett. Tickets to be had of Mrs Walter at the Three Queens in New-Street, Covent Garden, and places for the boxes of Mr Hobson at the stage door of the theatre. Tickets of Miss Bennett opposite Salisbury St., Strand. Tickets deliver'd out by Rector and Mlle Gondou will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: A French Peasant-Froment, Mlle Gondeau; III: A New Serious Dance-Desse, Mrs Walter; V: La Florana, as17430408

Song: II: Stella and Flavia-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard, Lowe

162
16 April 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd by Mlle Camargo and Miss Ferguson will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: LLes Taileurs, as17531210; also by Particular Desire, a Minuet, Louvre-Gardner, Mlle Camargo

163
30 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cushing, White, Holtom. Tickets deliver'd by Jona, Jarvis, Mlle Vivier, and Miss Condel will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Non Juror

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: CComic Dance-Poitier, Mlle Capdeville

164
01 March 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tomorrow acted but twice these 10 years, King Lear. With a new Ballet by Guerin and Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Return'd from Paris

Dance: Granier Jun, Mlle Capdeville

165
22 August 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Joly and Mlle Dulisse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert And Auction

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Maggot

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Joly; Doctor-Gillet; Pierrot-Master Hussey; Pierrotte-Miss Filizeau a scholar of Joly; Colombine-Mlle Dulisse; End of performance: Hornpipe-Morris, Miss Derham.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mlle Dulisse

Song: Lauder; Lecture-Cibber

Dance: Joly, Mlle Dulisse

166
12 March 1772 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Heinel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Schiava

Dance: I: A Half@Comic Ballet-Mlle Heinel, her 1st appearance that character; End Last Act: Admete and Alceste, as17720310

167
03 June 1772 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Last time of Mlle Heinel's dancing before she leaves England

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrio

Dance: I: Grand Chacone-Mlle Heinel, other principals; II: Provenzale-Slingsby, Sga Guidi, other principals; III: Le Triomphe de la Magie, as17720512

168
13 March 1783 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Trionfo Della Costanza

Dance: End of Act I an entirely new Divertissement, composed by Lepicq, li Riposo del Campo; or, The Recreations of the Camp, in which a Pas de Deux, La Recrue par Force; or, The Kidnappers, by Lepicq and Mme Rossi, and the other characters by Slingsby, Henry, Zuchelli, Sga Crespi, Mlle Theodore; End of Opera a new Ballet (1st time), founded on the Fairy Tale by Voltaire, La Begueule; or, She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, in which a Minuet by Lepicq and Mme Rossi, and the other characters by Slingsby, Henry, Degville Jun., Sga Crespi, Mlle Theodore, Mme Simonet

Performance Comment: , Sga Crespi, Mlle Theodore, Mme Simonet .

169
05 February 1785 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: "[Il Convito degli Dei] is founded on the fabulous account of the nuptials of Peleus and Thetis, when the Gods, met in full assembly, were interrupted by the Goddess Discord, who threw among them the golden apple, directed to the fairest of the female deities" (Morning Herald, 7 Feb., which states that the part of Apollo was danced by Nivelon, and that of Minerva by Mlle Dorival)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrio

Dance: End of Act I an entirely new Divertissement (composed by Lepicq; the music by Barthelemon) Il Convito degli Dei by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Henry, Zuchelli, Mme Bithmer, Nivelon, Mlle Dorival; End of Opera The Deserter, as17850122

170
02 July 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE

Dance: In afterpiece the Ballets composed by James D'Egville; the Principal Dancers-D'Egville, Gentili, and also by permission of the Proprietor of the King's Theatre, Mme Del Caro, Mlle E. Hilligsberg, Mlle Hilligsberg

Performance Comment: Hilligsberg, Mlle Hilligsberg .

171
04 November 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wives As They Were, And Maids As They Are

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Dance: End II: Les Delassemens Militaires, as17971021; End: Cupid and Psyche (composed by Noverre)-Mrs Wild, Mme Rose, Mme Hilligsberg, Didelot, Fialon, The Graces by Mlle St.Amand, Mme D'Egville, Mlle Philips

Performance Comment: Amand, Mme D'Egville, Mlle Philips.

172
01 March 1800 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramide

Dance: End I: Hylas et Temire, as18000201; End Opera: Le Mariage Mexicain-Deshayes, Laborie, Didelot, Mme Hilligsberg, Mme Laborie, Mlle J. Hilligsberg, Mlle Parisot

Performance Comment: Hilligsberg, Mlle Parisot.

173
27 December 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: There is now in practice...two new dances which are to be perform'd there on Monday next, the first call'd The Turkish Pirate, the second the Laundress's Visiting Day both compos'd by Giuseppe Salomon, and to perform'd by him, Mlle Violette, the Padouana, M. Mechel, Salomon's Son, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

174
14 January 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [Mlle Violette apparently did not appear in one of the dances scheduled. See note of 16 Jan. The reaction of the audience was noisy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Dance: I: The German Camp, as17461217; III: Turkish Pirate, as17470105; V: Laundress's Visiting Day, as17470105

175
26 May 1791 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Mozon. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each and Boxes, to be had of Mlle Mozon, No. 32, St. Martin-street, Leicester-fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments Of Music And Dancing

Dance: End III: an entire new Ballet (composed by Vestris Jun.) Les Folies d'Espagne- see17910610; (for that night only) Pas de Trois-Vestris Jun., Mlle Hilligsberg, Mlle Mozon; Pas Seul-Juber (principal dancer from France); a Pas de Deux-Juber, Mlle Mozon; conclude with Minuet de la Cour-as17910505Vestris Sen

Performance Comment: =) Les Folies d'Espagne- see17910610; (for that night only) Pas de Trois-Vestris Jun., Mlle Hilligsberg, Mlle Mozon; Pas Seul-Juber (principal dancer from France); a Pas de Deux-Juber, Mlle Mozon; conclude with Minuet de la Cour-as17910505Vestris Sen.
Cast
Role: Pas de Trois Actor: Vestris Jun., Mlle Hilligsberg, Mlle Mozon
Role: a Pas de Deux Actor: Juber, Mlle Mozon
Role: Orpheus and Eurydice Actor: Vestris? Jun., Victor, Vermilly, Mlle Hilligsberg, Mlle Mozon, Mlle Dorival.

Ballet: End I: L'Amadriade. As17910517