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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Porpora"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Porpora")') 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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57 results for: Keyword - Porpora
We found 50 matches on Author, 14 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

51
12 March 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A new Oratorio or Sacred Drama. Set to Musick by Signor Nicola Porpora. [By Paul Rolli. Egmont present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: David

52
16 March 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Set to Musick by Signor Nicola Porpora

Performances

Mainpiece Title: David

53
08 April 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Set to Musick by Signor Nicola Porpora

Performances

Mainpiece Title: David

54
28 February 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Set to Musick by Signor Nicola Porpora. With several Additions

Performances

Mainpiece Title: David

55
06 May 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: At 7 P.M. Egmont, Diary, II, 174: I went to the opera called Iphigenia, composed by Porpora, and I think the town does not justice in condemning it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Iphigenia

Related Works
Related Work: Iphigenia in Aulis Author(s): Nicola Porpora

56
15 July 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Carey. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey. Being the last of that kind he intends ever to compose. At Common Prices. 6:30 P.M. No one admitted into the Boxes but by Silver Tickets or printed Tickets from the Office. [Preface points out that DL had the copy nine months, promising to perform it and returning it at the end of the season. Then Cibber Jr requested it for his summer company; it was rehearsed and then the company forced to close.] The Airs by Porpora

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Cast
Role: London Merchant Actor: Cross
Role: Millwood Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Thorogood Actor: Turbutt
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Brunette
Role: Barnwell Sr Actor: Jones
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Truman Actor: Este
Role: Blunt Actor: Cole

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Yorkshireman Actor: Salway
Role: Arbella Actor: Mrs Cantrell
Role: Squire Sapscull Actor: Este
Role: Combrush Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Alderman Muckworm Actor: Jones
Role: Slango Actor: Master Green
Role: Blunder Actor: Topham. With a Prologue to the Farce against National Prejudice

Music: Concerto for Two Hautboys by Woodbridge and Neale. A fine Piece of Mr Handel's on the little Flute by a Friend of Carey

Dance: houvre and Minuet by Vallois and Mrs Anderson. V: Two Pierrots by Vallois and his Scholar

Song: By a Scholar of Carey's

57
24 January 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Nicholas Porpora. Their Majesties, Princesses Amelia and Caroline expected to attend.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates

Cast
Role: : Mitridate Actor: Francesco Bernardi, detto Senesino
Role: Sifare Actor: Carlo Broschi, detto Farinelli
Role: Semandra Actor: Signora Francesca Cuzzoni
Role: Farnace Actor: Signora Fran. Bertolli
Role: Ismene Actor: Signora Santa Tasca, detta la Santina
Role: Archelao Actor: Antonio Montagnana
Role: Arcante Actor: Bernardo Palma