SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Royal Highnesses"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Royal Highnesses")') 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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We found 1227 matches on Event Comments, 689 matches on Performance Title, 323 matches on Performance Comments, 3 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music, Composed by the late Famous Mr Henry Purcell for the York-shire Feast-

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of their Highnesses the Prince and Princess Landgrave of Hesse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Song: As17031019

Music: A piece of Musick for the Violin and Flute-Signior Gasperini, Mr Paisible, it being the most Masterly perform'd of any Musick that was ever heard upon the English Stage

Dance: As17031102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Event Comment: Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 4 Oct.: His Majesty, and their Highnesses the Young Princesses were at the Play...the House being very full

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Several Solos, Concertos-Castrucci; Trumpet Piece-the famous Signior Mantelli; Solo on the Hautboy-Ketch

Event Comment: Original Weekly Journal, 9 April: His Majesty was present; as were also their Highnesses the young Princesses, all in Black Velvet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Numitor

Event Comment: By Their Highnesses' Command. Written by the late Mr Wycherley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Riddle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Opera Of Operas

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: By Command of their Highnesses the Princess Amelia and Princess Caroline. [Daily Advertiser lists Granier instead of the Gentleman in The Frolick.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Balourd

Afterpiece Title: La Serenade

Dance: The Frolick, as17341226. L'Allemande by Miss Chateauneuf

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine: With the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Music: As17351018

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Music: A New Sett of Act Tunes composed by Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance: SScots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland; Miller and His Wife-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

Event Comment: By Command of their Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17430120

Event Comment: By Command of their Highnesses Prince George, Prince Edward, and the Lady Augusta, By A Company of Dutch children, join'd with the English, German and Italians. A Pantomime Entertainment. Boxes and Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6 p.m. We hear the Company of Dutch/Children join'd with the English, Germans and Italians, will perform this day, tomorrow, Thursday and Friday next, and will exhibit something new every night, and some people of Quality have engag'd Boxes for each night.--Daily Advertiser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequino Triumphante

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Covent Garden Theatre; or, Pasquin turn'd Drawcansir, Censor of Great Britain

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet, as17511216

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: As17570128

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: Part I: Concerto on French Horn-Mr Ponta; End Part II: Concerto on Violin-Sga Lombardini Sirmen (Theatrical Review, 214)

Event Comment: In Thomas Jordan's Royal Arbour of Loyal Poesie (p. 12) is a piece entitled: A Prologue to the King, August 16, 1660

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Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company. The Prologue is in Thomas Jordan's A Royal Arbour of Loyal Poesie (1664). Andrew Newport to Sir Richard Leveson, 15 Dec.: Upon our stages we have women-actors, as beyond seas (HMC, 5th Report, Part I, 1876, p. 158). For a discussion of actresses who may have played Desdemona on this day, see Wilson, All the King's Ladies, pp. 6-8. Possibly Clun acted Iago. See An Elegy Upon the Most Execrable Murther of Mr Clun, 1664

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Moore Of Venice