SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "PPrince and Princess of Wales"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "PPrince and Princess of Wales")') 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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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parthenope

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales and Princess Caroline present.] Receipts: #42 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Periander

Cast
Role: Periander Actor: Quin
Role: Alcander Actor: Chapman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wenceslaus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. [Prince of Wales and the Princesses Amelia and Caroline expected to attend.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Performance Comment: See reconstructed cast in Deutsch, Handel, p. 278.
Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Daily Advertiser, 12 Oct.: The same Day [11 Oct., the Anniversary of His Majesty's Coronation] Mr Giffard...gave a handsome Entertainment, with a Concert of Musick, to the Company of Comedians, and a large Bonfire and Liquor to the Populace, when the Healths of their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; the Duke, and the Princesses, were drank, with the sounding of Kettle Drums and Trumpets, and repeated Acclamations of Joy. Daily Post, 13 Oct.: Mr Fielding the Player (who keeps a Booth...during...Bartholomew Fair) gave to the Populace before his own Door in Hart-street, Bloomsbury, a Butt of the strongest Beer that could be got; also a large Bonfire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Dance: DDutch Skipper-D'Valois, Mrs Bullock; Tambourine-Miss Wherrit; Sailor's Dance-Jones

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Sir Sampson-Shepard; Valentine-Bridgwater; Ben-Cibber; Scandal-W. Mills; Tattle-Cibber Jr; Foresight-Johnson; Trapland-Griffin; Jeremy-Oates; Angelica-Mrs Booth; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Horton; Mrs Frail-Mrs Heron; Prue-Mrs Cibber; Nurse-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: W. Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Griffin

Dance: Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Formerly Compos'd by Mr Handel, and now again Revis'd by him. With several Additions, to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. There will be no Action on the Stage, but the Scenes will represent (in a Picturesque Manner) a Rural Prospect, with Rocks, Groves, Fountains, and Grottos, amongst which will be disposed a Chorus of Nymphs and Shepherds. The Habits and every other Decoration suited to the Subject. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present. See letter from Hill to Handel, in Hill, Works, I, 174-75, and in Deutsch, Handel, p. 299.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 28 March: Their Majesties, together with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses were again...to see Deborah...at which was likewise present one of the most numerous Audiences of Nobility and Persons of Distinction that has been ever seen in any Theatre. Egmont, Diary, I, 345: It was very magnificent, near a hundred performers, among whom about twenty-five singers. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, and three eldest Princesses present. Egmont also present. For a satiric pamphlet on opera, see Harmony in an Uproar, dated 12 Feb.; much of it is reprinted in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 344-57.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 18 March: And on Friday [Giffard] invited the whole Company to a very grand Entertainment, prepar'd for 'em in the Play-house, where their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Prince and Princess of Orange, the Royal Family, Success to Trade, Prosperity to the City of London, and many other Loyal Healths were drank; during which time the Arches were again illuminated, Fireworks play'd off, and the Night concluded with a Ball

Performances

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Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Salle. By Their Majesties' Command. [Prince of Wales, Prince of Orange, and two young Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Dance: Les Charactres de P Amour by Mlle Salle. Un Pas de Trots by Malter, Houghton, Mlle Salle. Peasant by Malter. Pigmalion, as17340114

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. By Command of His Royal Highness. To which (By Command) will be added, The Coronation of Anna Bullen, with the Military Ceremony of the Champion in Westminster-Hall, for the Entertainment of . . .the Prince of Orange, who accompanies his Royal Highness to the Play. [Prince of Wales, Prince of Orange, Princess Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

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Event Comment: [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.] Lord Hervey to Henry Fox, 2 Nov.: No place is full but the Opera; and Farinelli is so universally liked, that the crowds there are immense. By way of public spectacles this winter, there are no less than two Italian Operas, one French play house, and three English ones. Heidegger has computed the expense of these shows, and proves in black & white that the undertakers must receive seventy-six thousand odd hundred pounds to bear their charges, before they begin to become gainers. Ilchester, Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 211

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 6 Nov.: The King, the Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia, were again to . . . Artaxerxes, in which Signor Farnelli continues to sing to a crowded Audience, with all imaginable Applause. Egmont, Diary, II, 132: Went to the opera, where I heard the finest voice that Europe affords, Faranelli, lately come over. Norwich Gazette, 9 Nov.: We hear that both Operas (occasion'd by their dividing) are at a vast expence to entertain the Nobility and Gentry for the ensuing Season; the Opera House in the Haymarket are reckon'd to stand near 12000l. and Mr Handell at near 9000l. for the Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Event Comment: [Text by Paul Rollo. Music by Nicholas Porpora.] A New Opera. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 3 Feb.: On Saturday Their Majesties ...the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses Amelia and Carolina . . . saw the Opera of Polifemo, which was perform'd to one of the greatest Audiences that hath King's been known this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polifemo

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Duke, their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia, Carolina, Maria and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin Astrologer, Infant, Ch1mney-sweeper, Statue, Parrot, & Skeleton

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Hulla

Music: Select Pieces. Solo on the German Flute by Burk Thumoth

Dance:

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Ben Johnson. By Her Majesty's Command. [The Queen, Prince of Wales, Duke, and Princesses Caroline, Mary, and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi: Being the Comic Interlude of Cephalus and Procris

Performance Comment: Gardeners-Pelling, Davenport; Gardeners' Wives-Mrs Davenport, Mrs Villeneuve; Noble Venetian-Este; Italian Bravo-Harper; Miller-Oates; Colombine-Miss Mann; Harlequin-Le Brun; Pierot-Davenport; Mandarin Gormogons-Thurmond, Villeneuve, Pelling, De la Magre; Chinese Guards-Wright, Taylor, Gray, Leigh. Concluding with Le Chasseur Royal by Denoyer, Mlle Roland, &c .
Event Comment: With Alterations and Additions. Tickets half a guinea. Gallery 5s. Gallery open at four; Pit and Boxes at 5. 6 P.M. [Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, and Princesses present, as also the Prince of Modena.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polifemo

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales, Duke, and Princess Amelia present.] Daily Advertiser, 30 Jan.: The Opera oF Mithridates was so full on Tuesday Night, that there were above 440 Ladies and Gentlemen in the Pit and Boxes, besides the Subscribers. Above 50 People were oblig'd to go away for want of Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess King's of Wales [who were present]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orpheus

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. King, Duke, Princess, P. of Wales & P. Edward (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: Mad Auretti, Matthews, Mad Janeton Auretti

Event Comment: By Command. Prince of Wales, Princess Dowager Prince Ed: & another Girl with. (Cross). A person last Tuesday in the playhouse at Drury Lane, that had some difference with another (whom he don't know) about a seat in the Pit, would be glad of a private conference, to be convinced who was in the fault; the publisher hereof may be seen 'Change at the usual hours every day this week to appoint a place for said conference (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Cast
Role: Pandulph Actor: Havard

Music: As17540123

Dance: Several Entertainments-Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste