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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Princess of Hesse"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Princess of Hesse")') 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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1009 results for: Keyword - Princess of Hesse
We found 777 matches on Event Comments, 156 matches on Performance Title, 87 matches on Performance Comments, 4 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

576
15 March 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

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

Mainpiece Title:

577
16 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Prince and Princess of Orange present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

578
19 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Prince and Princess of Orange expected to attend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

579
21 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

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

580
18 April 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Song:

Dance:

581
24 May 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Their Majesties and the young Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido

582
15 June 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: This will be the last Performance. [Their Majesties, Prince, Duke, and all the Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aeneas

583
19 September 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by Ben. Johnson. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. [Their Majesties, Duke, and Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: A Burgo-Master Trick'd

Dance: I: The Black Joke. II: Revellers. III: Pierots. IV: Les Bergeries. By Poitier, Nivelon, Essex, Pelling, Chose, Davenport, Janno, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

584
01 October 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange. For the Entertainment of Tomo Chachi. .. and Senauki his Queen. For the Benefit of a Family that has sustain'd great Losses. Mainpiece: Written by the Author of The Miser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote In England

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance:

Song: Songs proper to the Play. The Pleasant Month of May by a Gentlewoman, who never appeared on any stage before

585
02 November 1734 @ King's Theatre

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

586
05 November 1734 @ King's Theatre

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

587
09 November 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: First Piece: A new Dramatick Entertainment in Musick. [Music by Handel.] Second Piece: An Opera. With several Additions, intermix'd with Choruses. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 4s. Upper Gallery 21. 6d. [King and Princesses Amelia and Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Terpsicore

Afterpiece Title: Pastor Fido

588
14 November 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia and Caroline

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Astrologue, Statue, Enfant, Ramoneur, Perroquet: With The Scene Of The Moor

Afterpiece Title: Les Amours de Nanterre

Music: Mr Job Baker will perform a Preamble on the Kettle Drums, accompanied by other Instruments

589
22 November 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Intermix'd with Songs and Dances. [The Duke and Princesses Amelia, Mary, and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Misantrope

Afterpiece Title: Le Carillon de Maitre Gervaise et Dame Alison

590
25 November 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and Caroline

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Extravagance

Afterpiece Title: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife

Dance: Glover's Scot's Dance. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers

Song: By Leveridge

591
10 December 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince, Princesses Amelia and Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

592
18 December 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Duke and the young Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Et Sa Troupe Comediens Esclaves; Or, Harlequin And His Company Of Comedians Slaves

Dance:

593
27 December 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Sixteen Years. Written by the late Dr Procope. Calculated for the Meridian of London. [Princesses Mary and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Balourd; Or, Harlequin Blunderer

Afterpiece Title: Le Portrait

Dance: A new Chacone in several Characters: Harlequin Man-Cochoy Jr; Harlequin Woman-Miss Chateauneuf; Pierot Man-Roland; Pieraite-Mrs Mimie; Punch-Villeneuve; Dame Jigogne-Malter; Scaramouch Man-De Lisle; Scaramouch Woman-Mrs Le Sage Jr. The Frolick, as17341226 (latter in Daily Advertiser only)

594
08 January 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by A. Salvi. Music by Handel. King, Queen, Princesses Amelia and Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariodante

595
13 January 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of her Royal Highness the Princess Caroline. Written by Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Or, The Citizen Turn'd Gentleman

Dance:

Entertainment: With the Ceremony of Reception, after the Turkish Manner

596
01 February 1735 @ King's Theatre

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

597
03 February 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and Caroline

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Double Inconstance; Or, Harlequin A Courtier Against His Will

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Empereur dans la Lune

Dance:

598
10 February 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and Caroline

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Double Inconstance

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Sauvage

Dance:

599
20 February 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Duke and Princess Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariodante

600
12 March 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: As 5 March. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 13 March: Last Night their Majesties and the Princess Caroline . . . heard Esther, an Oratorio; and Mr Handel's two new inimitable Concertos on the Organ. [Egmont also present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cast Not Listed, But See 5 March