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3332 results for: Keyword - Royal Garden at Richmond
We found 2152 matches on Event Comments, 763 matches on Performance Title, 587 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1376
12 November 1691 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2712, 5-9 Nov. 1691: The Consort of Musick in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, will be performed on Thursday next, being the 12th of this instant, and every Thursday as formerly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1377
05 December 1691 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: Newdigate newsletters (Folger Shakespeare Library), 5 Dec. 1691: The same night ye Morocco Ambasadr with all his retinue was at the great musick house in Covent Garden. [I owe the transcription of this item to Professor John Harold Wilson.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1378
10 March 1692 @ Charles Street, Covent Garden

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 2747, 7-10 March 1691@2: This present Thursday, being the 10th Instant, will be performed a Consort of Musick, with some new Voices, at the Vendu in Charles-Street, Covent-Garden, beginning between 7 and 8 a Cl ock at Night, as usually, and so continue every Thursday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1379
16 January 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Constatijn Huygens, 16 Jan. 1692@2 O. S. [translation]: In the afternoon I went with Preswitz to the comedy, by Covent Garden, where there was a play about Henry II, but I could not very well understand the comedians, neither what they said. Mrs Barry played the King's wife and Mrs Bracegirdle his mistress, who let the King be poisoned in her presence. Sayer came and sat with us. The best places were for the English crown (Journaal van Constantijn Huygens, Publication of the Dutch Historical Society, New Series, XXV [Utrecht, 1877], 168)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Second

1380
03 February 1693 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 2841, 3O Jan.-2 Feb. 1692@3: The Consort of Musick in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, will begin tomorrow, being Friday, the 3d of February, at Eight of the Clock at Night, and to continue every Thursday Night after during this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1381
23 March 1693 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 2854, 16-20 March 1692@3: The Consort of Musick in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, will begin again on Thursday next, being the 23th Instant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1382
30 November 1693 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2926, 23-27 Nov. 1693: In Charles-street in Covent-Garden, on Thursday next the 30th Instant, will begin Mr Frank's Consort of Musick, and so continue every Thursday night, beginning exactly at Eight of the Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1383
09 May 1694 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is announced in a playbill: At the Queen's Theatre, in Dorset-Garden, this present Wensday being the Nineth of May, will be presented, A Play called, All for Love, Or the World well-lost. No money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn. By their Majesties Servants. Vivant Rex Q Regina (reproduced opposite page 241 in Lawrence, Elizabethan Playhouse, Second Series)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well-lost

1384
12 June 1694 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is known from a playbill: At the Queens Theatre, in Dorset-Garden, this present Tuesday being the 12th of June, will be presented, A Play called, Theodosius, Or, The Force of Love. No money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn. By their Majesties servants. Vivant Rex & Regina (reproduced opposite page 241, Lawrence, Elizabethan Playhouse, 2d Series)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

1385
14 June 1694 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 2982, 7-11 June 1694: On Thursday next will be a new Consort of Musick in Charles-street, Covent Garden; where a Gentlewoman that Sings that hath one of the best Voices in England, not before heard in publick, to be continued every Thursday for a Month

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1386
18 October 1694 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 3018, 11-15 Oct. 1694: The Consort of Musick will begin in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, on Thursday the 18th instant, with two very fine Voices, and will continue all the Winter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1387
17 November 1694 @ Mr Smith's residence

Event Comment: London Gazette,No 3021, 12-15 Nov. 1694: A Consort of Musick composed by Mr Grabue, will be performed on Saturday next, at Mr Smiths in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, between the Hours of Seven and Eight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1388
29 November 1694 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 3030, 22-26 Nov. 1694: The Consort of Musick in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, will begin again next Thursday, with the Addition of two new Voices, one being a young Gentlewoman of 12 years of Age, the Room being Put in good Condition, and there to continue this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1389
10 June 1695 @ Bedford Gate, Charles Street

Event Comment: London Gazette, No 3085, 3-6 June 1695: The Consort of Musick in Charles-street, Covent-Garden, will be performed once more this next Monday, being the 10th of June instant, at the usual time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1390
18 June 1695 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Luttrell, A Brief Relation, III, 488: On Tuesday Night last the play house in Dorset Garden was broke open and their rich garments, to the value of 300#, taken away

Performances

1391
25 June 1695 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Intelligence Domestick and Foreign, 21-25 June 1695: One Phillips, a Dancer in the Playhouse, is Committed to Newgate for being one of those concerned in the Robbery of the Theatre in Dorset-Garden, and a great many of their Habits are recovered again, but plundered of their Silver and Gold Lace, Fringes, &c. [See also Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 82.

Performances

1392
09 October 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As a result of litigation in 1704, we know that the regular company at Drury Lane and Dorset Garden resumed acting (after the younger performers had had possession of the theatres) on 9 Oct. 1695, and acted 214 days to 13 July 1696, after which the young actors played until 12 Oct. 1696, acting 57 times in the long vacation. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 308

Performances

1393
07 January 1697 @ Golden Balls

Event Comment: London Gazette, No. 3251, 4-7 Jan. 1696@7: At the two Golden Balls, the upper End of Bow-street, near Covent Garden, this day, being the 7th instant, will be performed a New Consort of Musick, with Trumpets, Flutes, Haught boys. Beginning exactly at 8 a Clock in the Evening; and to continue every Thursday following

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1394
04 February 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: James Brydges, Diary: I went to ye playhouse in Covent Garden, & after that to ye playhouse in Lincolns inn fields (Huntington MS St 26)

Performances

1395
15 February 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: James Brydges, Diary: I went to ye Playhouse in Covent Garden where I met Mr Knight, after wch I went to yr other playhouse, & there saw Sr Charles Barinton, & Mr Mildmay; before ye play was done, I came hence home (Huntington MS St 26)

Performances

1396
15 June 1697 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Post Boy, 12-15 June 1697: Great Preparations are making for a new Opera [The World in the Moon] in the Play-house in Dorset-Garden, of which there is great Expectation, the Scenes being several new Sets and of a moddel different from all that have been used in any Theatre whatever, being twice as high as any of their former Scenes. And the whole Decoration of the Stage not only infinitely beyond all the Opera's ever yet performed in England, but also by the acknowledgment of several Gentlemen that have travell'd abroad, much exceeding all that has been seen on any of the Foreign Stages

Performances

1397
15 January 1698 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Boy, 13-15 Jan. 1697@8: 'Tis said that this day will be Acted, at the Theatre in Dorset Garden, the Opera called Prophetess or Dioclesian, at the request of a Nobleman; they will not tell us who, but we presume for the Entertainment of a very great Foreigner. Luttrell, A Brief Relation, III, 332: He [the Czar of Muscovy] is this night at the Playhouse incognito to see the Prophetesse acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess; Or, The History Of Dioclesian

1398
03 May 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company was apparently suspended because of its action in allowing John Powell, who had been involved in an altercation with Colonel Stanhope and Charles Davenant, to act before making satisfaction for the incident. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 368, and Cibber, Apology, II, 20n. The suspension lasted but a day; on 19 May 1698 Powell was forbidden to be received at either Drury Lane or Dorset Garden

Performances

1399
13 December 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: James Brydges, Diary: About 5 my Coz: Roberts & I went to ye Playhouse in Covent Garden, but not liking ye play, wee went to that in Lincolns inn fields, & staid till 'twas done. I saw Ld Normanby, Ld Willouby, Sir Rich. Samford &c. here (Huntington MS St 26)

Performances

1400
22 April 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: James Brydges, Diary: Toward seven...to ye Playhouse in Lincolns Inn fields; here I saw Mr Freeman, Mr Worsely, Sr Edwd Ernly &c.: from hence I went to ye Playhouse in Covent Garden, thinking to have met my Brother Frank, Sister Jacob &c.: there, but did not. I sat with Mr Cook of Darby, & spoke with Mr Winninton &c. (Huntington MS ST 26)

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