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6388 results for: Keyword - Mr Storace
We found 4285 matches on Event Comments, 1259 matches on Performance Comments, 754 matches on Author, 534 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1676
14 February 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts-Tenducci (1st appearance at that theatre these 8 years), Saville, Reinhold, Miss Storace, Miss Harrop (1st public appearance).

Music: End of Part I: concerto on the violoncello-Cervetto; End of Part II: concerto on the violin-Lamotte

1677
31 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by John O'Keeffe]: A new Overture by Tommaso? Giordani, the rest of the Music composed and selected from Paisiello, Storace and Morelli] by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 27 Nov.: Paid O'Keeffe in full for the Farce & Copyright of The Farmer #150. Receipts: #130 11s. 6d. (124.0.0; 6.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

1678
27 February 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Coronation Anthem God Save The King

Afterpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Performers-Harrison, Pearson (Principal Alto at the Concert of Ancient Music), Griffiths, Champness, Sale (Principal Basses at the Concert of Ancient Music), Miss Cantelo, Sga Storace; Among the Instrumental Performers-Richards (Leader of the Band), Ashley, Ashley's Sons, Sperati, Patria, Sarjant, Gariboldi, Boyce, Knyvett (Organ).

Music: End Part I Oratorio: concerto on the violin [by Viotti (World, 28 Feb.)]-Mme Gautherot (from Paris; 2nd public performance in this Kingdom)

1679
29 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Adventure Or Stop Her Who Can

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Related Works
Related Work: Cymon Author(s): Stephen Storace

Dance: Following Imitations at end: As17891021; In afterpiece: Dances, as17900409

Entertainment: End II: Tragic Imitations [of Mrs Siddons in Belvidera's 1st scene in Venice Preserved, I.i., and of Mrs Crawford in Lady Randolph's 1st speech in Douglas]-Mrs Wells; End III: Comic and Vocal Imitations [of Mrs Abington as Widow Belmour in The Way to Keep Him, and of Mrs Martyr, Mrs Jordan, Sga Storace, Sga Sestini]-Mrs Wells; End: A Scene from Isabella [The "ring speech" in II.ii] (Above identified in World, 29 Apr.)-Mrs Wells

Performance Comment: i., and of Mrs Crawford in Lady Randolph's 1st speech in Douglas]-Mrs Wells; End III: Comic and Vocal Imitations [of Mrs Abington as Widow Belmour in The Way to Keep Him, and of Mrs Martyr, Mrs Jordan, Sga Storace, Sga Sestini]-Mrs Wells; End: A Scene from Isabella [The "ring speech" in II.ii] (Above identified in World, 29 Apr.)-Mrs Wells.

1680
20 February 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: A Grand Miscellaneous Act

Performance Comment: Overture-(Ariadne); Captivity (supposed to be sung by the unfortunate Maria Antoinette, Queen of France, during her confinement in the Tower of the Temple) [composed by Storace]-Mrs Crouch; Jehovah crowned-Incledon; He comes-Chorus (Esther); Mad Bess (composed by Purcell)-Mme Mara; Disdainful of danger-Incledon, Kelly, Reynolds (Judas Maccabaeus); He layeth the beams-Bartleman (Ezio); But bright Cecilia, As from the power-Mme Mara; The dead shall live-Chorus (Dryden's Ode); God save Great George our King, To Arms, Britons strike home-Chorus (Purcell).

Music: End II oratorio: concerto on the violin-Mme Gautherot

1681
28 March 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Performers as17940319eader as17940312ARTS I, II. As17940319ART III. As17940319but I know that my Redeemer liveth by Sga Storace .

Music: End of Part I concerto on the oboe by W. Parke; End of Part II concerto on the violin by Giornovichi, in which the favourite air of Lullaby

1682
01 May 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act I The Cardinal's Banquet. In Act II The Court for the Trial of Queen Katharine. In Act V a Grand Procession to the Christening of Princess Elizabeth. Paid Charles Smith on Acct. of Upholders Work at Drury Lane Theatre #400. Powell: Henry VIII rehearsed at 10 (for Packer, lame, and Mrs Siddons); Siege of Belgrade music at 12 (for Storace, Bannister Jun., Crouch, Davis, Danby). The Iron Curtain being finish'd was this Evening exhibited for the first Time with the Epilogue [and see 21 Apr.]. "On the 24th February, 1809, this theatre was burnt down . . . Every care had been taken to guard against such a calamity. Two large reservoirs for water, on the top of the house, happened, unfortunately, at this crisis to be empty; and an iron curtain, intended to separate the auditory from the stage, for the purpose of saving a part of the edifice in case of conflagration, was, with its machinery, so much out of order as to be useless; it was, in fact, utterly immoveable" (Brayley, p. 8). Receipts: #451 8s. 6d. (389/4/0; 56/5/0; 4/6/6; tickets not come in: 1/13/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

1683
17 May 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece: Prologue by George Colman, the elder.] Powell: Love a-la-mode rehearsed at 10 (for King); Lodoiska music at 11 (for Kelly, Storace, Crouch); Natural Son at 12 (King, Moody. Miss Farren one scene). Receipts: #347 15s. 6d. (283/0/0; 53/13/6; 7/2/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The ew

Afterpiece Title: BON TON

1684
04 March 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Thespian Panorama Or Three Hours Hearts Ease

Performance Comment: [Composed of a variety of Matter, Musical, Rhetorical and Imitative; the greatest part of which has never yet been offered to the Public. The new Music by Shield, Carter and Reeve; The Selection from Martini i.e. Martin y Soler], Giordani, Storace, Jackson, Stevens, Pleyel. The Recitals will principally be new, and mostly spoken by Palmer; The Interlocutory Parts that connect the whole will likewise be delivered by him, and the other Parts of the Entertainment will be given by Johnstone, Wathen, Williames, Caulfield, Bannister, Mrs Mountain. Part 1. Exordium [written by Arthur Murphy, spoken by-Palmer; Overture [composed by Stamitz-; [New Glee The shipwreck'd Sailors (see dl, 19 May) [composed by an amateur-; Thespian Advice [spoken by-Palmer; Gipsey Jenny-; The Sailor's Joke [sung by-Wathen; A Milesian Pasticcio [spoken by-Johnstone; An attempt to cleanse the Augean Stable-; Love of our Country-; [Glee, Britain's best Bulwarks are her Wooden Walls-; [Part II. An Overture [by Clementi-; Neptune's Exhortation-; [the Death of Faulknor-; [The Country Clergyman [spoken by-Wathen; Anna's Lullaby [sung by-Johnstone; The Cambrian Quack [or Killing no Murder, spoken by-Williames; A further Attempt at the Stable-; Exhortation to Unanimity-; The Royal Nuptials-; Happiness and the House of Brunswick-; [Part III. The Overture [by Haydn-; The Comforts of Dust [or the Citizen's Cake-House-; Nothing but a Place [sung by-Wathen; Noli me tangere [or No jesting with Edged Tools-; Fancy's Festival [sung by-Johnstone; The Profit of Prosody-; [Irish Explanation, Tho' born in a Stable a Man's not a Horse [sung by-Mrs Mountain; Finale of Gratitude-; other Parts-Caulfield, Bannister.

1685
31 March 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection Of Sacred Music 0 Lallegro Ed Il Penseroso 0 Messiah 0

Afterpiece Title: A Grand Selection of Sacred Music 1

Afterpiece Title: A Grand Selection of Sacred Music 2

Performance Comment: Part II. Fourth concerto of Avison-; Father of heaven-Sga Galli; Sion now her head shall raise-Miss Poole, Master Elliot [Judas Maccabaeus]; Tune your harps-Chorus [Esther]; Tho' pleasure swells-Braham [Mahmoud (Storace)]; Lord of eternity-Chorus; Behold the nations-; O Baal-Chorus [Deborah]; What though I trace-Mme Mara [Solomon]; Gird on thy sword-Chorus [Saul].Saul].

Afterpiece Title: A Grand Selection of Sacred Music 3

Music: As17970315

1686
06 June 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Performance Comment: Robin Hood (with O bring me Wine by Shield, and There the silver'd waters roam, from The Pirates by Storace)-Sedgwick; Little John (with All in preparation, from The Haunted Tower)-Bannister Jun.; Ruttekin-Wathen; Bowman-Caulfield; Fitzherbert-Dowton; Scarlet-Trueman; Edwin-Incledon (by permission of the Proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden); Clorinda-Miss Leak; Annette-Mrs Bland; Angelina-Miss DeCamp (Their 1st appearance in those characters).

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: In the course of the evening: The Storm-Incledon

1687
23 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Anacreontic Society Revived i

Performance Comment: e. The Sons of Anacreon]. President-Sedgwick; who will introduce the celebrated [Anacreontic] Song The Silver'd Waters Roam-Sedgwick [, from The Pirates (composed by Storace); Our Tars so Fam'd in Story- (1st time; composed by Stevens); O bring me Wine- (composed by Shield); Sweet Lillies of the Valley- (composed by Hook); a new Loyal Song (written by Captain Morris and composed by Sir William Parsons)-Dignum; [To conclude with a Glee and Chorus-.

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

1688
17 September 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan or A Peep into the Seraglio

Afterpiece Title: The Giant and Dwarf or Columbine Captive

Entertainment: Vaudeville. A Pasticcio, consisting of: From Shades of Night[, composed by Storace for Mahmoud,-D'Arcy; [The first Strophe, Epode, and Antistrophe of Gray's Bard-a Young Gentleman [, aged 10 years [unidentified]; Cheap Experience [; or, Cheats of London, composed by Dibdin,-Waldron Jun

Performance Comment: A Pasticcio, consisting of: From Shades of Night[, composed by Storace for Mahmoud,-D'Arcy; [The first Strophe, Epode, and Antistrophe of Gray's Bard-a Young Gentleman [, aged 10 years [unidentified]; Cheap Experience [; or, Cheats of London, composed by Dibdin,-Waldron Jun.

1689
21 April 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

1690
January 1690 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Successful Strangers

1691
June 1690 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess Or The History Of Dioclesian

1692
October 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Sisters Or The Violence Of Love

1693
June 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Innocent Mistress

1694
December 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patriot Or The Italian Conspiracy

1695
22 January 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Friendship In Fashion revivd

1696
01 October 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

1697
07 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

1698
02 September 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert Or An Impromptu Of Whim And Novelty

Afterpiece Title: With a Lilliputian Pantomime calldHarlequins Frolic or A Voyage to Prussia

1699
27 July 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wishes Or Harlequins Mouth Opened

Dance: Master Rogier, Miss Capitani

1700
08 October 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen