SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Handel"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Handel")') 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 4410 matches on Event Comments, 1294 matches on Performance Comments, 695 matches on Performance Title, 95 matches on Author, and 6 matches on Roles/Actors.

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Mainpiece Title: New Brooms

Afterpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

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Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

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Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

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Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Phoenix or Anacreontics Renovated i

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Entertainment: In 2nd piece: Imitations-Caulfield

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Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

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Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Ballet: II: Savoyard Travellers. Principal Savoyards-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison; Children Savoyards-Little Swiss, Miss Popling; Peasants-M'Neil, Mlle delaContri; see17491110

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Mainpiece Title: A Writ Of Inquiry Will Be Executed On The Inquisitor General

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Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Event Comment: N.B. That the Ladies and Gentlemen may not be detained at the Theatre while Tickets are given them, they are desir'd to send for them to Mr Arne's House in Craven Buildings near Drury Lane, Number 17, or to Mr Bradshaw, Box-Keeper, at the Kings Arms in Great Russel St., where tickets may be had, and places taken. Boxes 6s. Pit 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Ladies are desir'd to send their servants to keep places by Four o'clock. NB: Mr Arne humbly hopes the Town will not be offended at this small advance of Prices, being at an extraordinary expence for copying all the Music, building the stage, additional instrumental performers, chorus singers, and erecting an Organ. [The attendance apparently was heavy. See note to repeated performance on 19 March.] Mainpiece: Written by Dryden and set to Music by Handel

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Related Works
Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text from Metastasio. Music by Handel.] Edition of 1731: Done into English by Mr Humphreys

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

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Related Work: Porus, King of India Author(s): George Frideric Handel
Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Music by Handel. Tickets 3s. By Particular Desire of the Right Hon. Earl of Ferrars, Grand Master of the Antient and Hon. Society of Free Masons. Mr Lowe's constant attendance at Marybone Gardens renders it impossible for him to wait on all his friends in person, he therefore hopes they will take tickets, in order to prevent mistakes at changing money at the doors

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

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Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast Or The Power Of Musique

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Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

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Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

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Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

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Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

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Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: Pleasure-Miss Faulkner, Soprano; Virtue-Mrs Arne[, Soprano; Hercules-Miss Young[, Mezzo-Soprano; Attendant on Pleasure-Lowe[, Tenor (Deutsch, Handel, p. 702.) [No cast listed in General Advertiser]., Tenor (Deutsch, Handel, p. 702.) [No cast listed in General Advertiser].
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Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Afterpiece Title: New Concerto on Organ

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Performance Comment: See reconstructed cast in Deutsch, Handel, p. 278.
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Related Work: Porus, King of India Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Performance Comment: Deutsch, Handel, p. 419, lists: Poro-Annibali; Cleofide-Signora Strada; Erissena-Signora Maria Caterina Negri; Gandarte-Conti; Alessandro-Beard; Timagene-Reinhold.
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Related Work: Porus, King of India Author(s): George Frideric Handel
Event Comment: By Desire and Consent of Frederic Handel, Esq. Afterpiece: Musick composed by his Majesty the King of Prussia. Pit half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. At the Great Room, Dean St., Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Related Works
Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Afterpiece Title: Charlottenburg Festegiante

Event Comment: Both pieces under the Direction of Dr Arne. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden. Set to Music by Handel. Afterpiece: A Serenata of one Act set to Music by Dr Arne. N.B. Though the nightly expenses attending these performances during the Lent, will be at least equal to any on the like occasion, the Prices will be only Boxes 7s. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. and the Upper Gallery 2s. To begin as usual. Subscriptions will continue through the Lent to be taken at Three Guineas, for which the Subscribers shall receive Twelve Box tickets to be used at pleasure, till all are come in, which tickets may be had at Dr Arne's in the Piazza, next the Church, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

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Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Afterpiece Title: Beauty and Virtue

Music: I: Concerto on Violincello-Siprutini; II: Concerto on German Flute-Florio

Event Comment: By Handel. By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

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Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Music: I: Bach Concerto-Tacet, Cramer, Cervetto, Fisher; II: Concerto for Two Violins and a Violin@cello by Bach-

Event Comment: Oratorio: Set to Music by Handel. 2nd piece: By the late Henry Purcel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

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Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Afterpiece Title: Bonduca

Music: As17820215

Event Comment: Ode: Written by Dryden, and set to Music by Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

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Related Work: Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique Author(s): George Frideric Handel

Music: End of Part I Giardini's Sixth Concerto on the Violin by G. Ashley