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

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20 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eloisa

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Holman, Farren, Macready, Pope, Miss Platt, Miss Brunton. Cast from Morning Chronicle, 21 Dec.: Villiers-Holman; Hainhault-Farren; Courcy-Macready; St. Preux-Pope; Emma-Miss Platt; Eloisa-Miss Brunton; Prologue-Pope; Epilogue-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Preux Actor: Pope

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Dance: As17861212

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21 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eloisa

Cast
Role: Preux Actor: Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

Dance: As17861002

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22 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eloisa

Cast
Role: Preux Actor: Pope

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: As17861116

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30 March 1674 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance (entitled The French Opera) is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 73. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345. The edition of 1674 (appearing in both an English and a French version) states: An Opera, or, a Vocal Representation. First Compos'd by Monsieur P. P. Now put into Musick by Monsieur Grabut, Master of His Majesties Musick. And Acted by the Royall Academy of Musick, At the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. The names of the singers for this production are not known, but it is possible that some of the French singers who appeared in Calisto in the following season, 1674-75, were in London for this production. See Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, pp. 201, 222, and W. J. Lawrence, Early French Players in England, The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies, p. 145. French dancers in the opera were Pecurr [Preux], LeTemps, Shenan, D'muraile. See L. C. 5@140, p. 472, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 355

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne; Or, The Marriage Of Bacchus