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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Morrell"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Morrell")') 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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5 results for: Keyword - Morrell
We found 3 matches on Event Comments, 2 matches on Roles/Actors, 1 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

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10 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gideon

Performance Comment: Parts for five characters and a Chorus; Gideon-; Joash-; Eliakim-; a Priest of Baal-; Oreb-; Chorus of Israelites-.*m1769 2 10 cg The First Violin, a Concerto-Sga Paganini; a Concerto on the Hautboy-Fischer.*c1769 2 10 cg By Command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. Tickets will be deliver'd this day in the Office of the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. The doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at Half an Hour after Six. A New ORATORIO, the Music by Handel. Composed by Dr Morrell (Biographia Dramatica). We cannot commend this piece, it being altogether a very tedious and heavy performance (Theatrical Register). Charges: #35.
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Role: a Concerto on the Hautboy Actor: Fischer.c1769 2 10 cg By Command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. Tickets will be deliver'd this day in the Office of the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. The doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at Half an Hour after Six. A New ORATORIO, the Music by Handel. Composed by Dr Morrell

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15 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gideon

Cast
Role: a Concerto on the Hautboy Actor: Fischer.c1769 2 10 cg By Command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. Tickets will be deliver'd this day in the Office of the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. The doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at Half an Hour after Six. A New ORATORIO, the Music by Handel. Composed by Dr Morrell

Music: As17690210, but Concerto on Violin-_

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29 May 1729 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [By Charles Coffey.] Never Acted before. Consisting of Variety of English, Scotch, and Irish Ballads. To which will be acted several comic and diverting French Pieces, to be perform'd by Monsieur Morrell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

4
23 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By their Royal Highnesses' Command. A new Oratorio, [Text by Morrell. Music by Handel. Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Trionfo Del Tempo E Della Verita

Music: WithConcertos on the Organ-and other Instruments

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01 April 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Text by the Rev. Dr Thomas Morrell; Music by Handel. [Dean quotes Lord Shaftesbury as saying the oratorio went off with great applause.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus