SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Signora Sirmen"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Signora Sirmen")') 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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?

Keyword

?
We found 318 matches on Performance Comments, 203 matches on Performance Title, 126 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit Signora Margherita Durastanti. Particular Care will be taken to Place Benches on the Stage for the Accommodation of the Company. [According to Deutsch, Handel, p. 160, her benefit brought her #1,000, in addition to a salary of 1,200 guineas yearly. The Cantata is printed in the Daily Journal, 18 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Performance Comment: Announced but deferred by indisposition of Signora Cuzzoni.
Event Comment: [Benefit Signora Diana. By $His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: [la Donna Piu Constante Dell' Humo: Viz

Song: [

Dance: [

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Argentina. By His Majesty's Command. And at the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets for The Hortolana taken at this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lo Soirito Foletto; Viz, The Hobgoblin

Song: Singing-

Dance: Dancing After their different Manner-

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Faustina. With several New Additions. By his Majesty's Command, for the better Convenience of the Audience, the Stage will be laid quite Open. N.B. The Court of Directors have resolved not to make use of their Tickets as Subscribers this Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

Event Comment: With the same Additions there were in Signora Faustina's Benefit. [For a satiric poem on operatic difficulties, see F@@na's Answer to S@@no's Epistle, published 18 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

Event Comment: As 18 March. Daily Journal, 15 April: Signora Faustina lies very ill of the Measles, attended with a high Fever

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

Performance Comment: Announced but deferred by illness of Signora Faustina.
Event Comment: Benefit Signora StradadelPo. By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. For the Benefit of the Famous Signora Violante, who is just arriv'd with a new extraordinary fine Company....After the Irish Manner, Which was perform'd 96 Times in Dublin with great Applause. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. [For performances at the Fairs in September, see season of 1731-1732.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: HHarlequin-Master LaFevre, Miss Violante; Louvre in Boys Cloaths-Miss Violante; Two Pierrots-Lalauze, Tobin

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and Three eldest Princesses present.] Daily Advertiser, 5 March: Signora Strada, on Account of whose Indisposition the Run of the new Opera of Orlando was interrupted, continues very ill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 13 June: The Subscribers to the Opera in which Signior Senesino and Signora Cuzzoni are to perform [the Opera of the Nobility], are desired to meet at Mr Hickford's Great Room in Panton-street, on Friday next by Eleven o'Clock, in order to settle proper Methods for carrying on the Subscription

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Durastanti. All the Royal Family expected to attend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arbaces

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 2 Dec.: Signora Strada was taken violently ill of a Fever of sore Throat, so that the Opera of Porus could not be perform'd as was intended; which sudden Indisposition put it out of the Power of the Directors to give earlier Notice to the Town of their Disappointment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Pourceaugnac and Grilletta

Performance Comment: Edition of 1737 states that it was performed by Signora Anna Maria Faini, Antonio Lottini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrius

Afterpiece Title: Grullo and Moschetta

Performance Comment: Edition of 1737 lists: Performed by Signora Anna Maria Faini, Antonio Lottini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrius

Afterpiece Title: The Impresario

Performance Comment: Edition of 1737 states the performers were Signora Anna Maria Faini (who presumably sang Dorina), Antonio Lottini (who presumably sang Nibbio).
Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 26 April: Signior Rolli's new Opera Call'd Sabrina, was rehears'd Yesterday Morning in Mr Heidegger's Apartments, to a numerous and very splendid Audience of Ladies and Gentlemen. The Signora Antonia Maria Marchesini, lately arriv'd from Italy, perform'd in it with universal Approbation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sabrina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: An Ode of Mr Dryden's [For St

Performance Comment: Cecilia's Day
]. Deutsch, Handel, p. 490, lists Signora Francesino, Beard; [With two new Concertos for several Instruments-.
Event Comment: Advertised but postponed by illness of Signora Francesina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hymen

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Maria Monza, 7p.m. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The First Violin-Veracini; The Violoncello-Caporale

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falshood

Opera: End II and IV: of the Play will be performed an Interlude in two Comick Scenes in Musick. betwixt Signor Capoccio, a Director from the Canary Islands, and Signora Dorinna, a Virtuosa; Capoccio-Waltz; Dorinna-Miss Hillier

Performance Comment: betwixt Signor Capoccio, a Director from the Canary Islands, and Signora Dorinna, a Virtuosa; Capoccio-Waltz; Dorinna-Miss Hillier.

Dance: I: Muzette, Tambourine-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; III: Les Niaise-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

Event Comment: Masque: By Particular Desire. The Gentlemen's Magazine for Jan. 1742 (p. 28) in an article On Two Italian Dancers comments rather fully on the Fausans' performance in Le Boufon; or the Idiot: My expectation was rais'd to the height but at their entrance on the stage, they alarm'd me by the inexpressive Agility and descriptive Action, Look and Motion, which were all performed With such mimic Variety, that I defy the most severe Cynic to say that they wou'd not at least raise in him an agreeable surprise, to see all the attitudes, Oddities and mock Gesticulations of the two Idiots, who may be suppos'd to be in Love with one another. It is not any distortion of Body or unnatural transposition of the limbs which they exhibit to the view, but the extravagant Idiotry which the passions of Love, Disdain, Joy, Resentment, would on a real occasion actuate on the personages they represent: Nor do they so manage their Dance that it is ungraceful: they take opportunities to show by actions and movements, that in their comic Humour they have an elegancy. This performance therefore, on Reflection, appear'd to me, instead of an unnatural extravaganza to be founded on the nicest Observations of Human Nature, and prove Signor and Signora to be persons of good judgment, as well as agility. Receipts: #80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Dance: LLe Boufon-the Fausans; Le Genereux Corsaire, as17411021

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Benefit Signora Fausan. Part of the Pit will be rail'd in, and added to the front boxes. Tickets and places in the Boxes to be had only of Mr West, at the Green Door in Duke St., Lincoln's Inn Fields; and for the Stage, of Mrs Moor, at the Sign of the Theatre in the Playhouse Passage. Receipts: #160. Rylands MS.: Duke &c attended

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Dance: I: Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17420208; II: Les Egyptiens-the Fausans; V: A New Grand Ballet-the Fausans, LaCroix, Constantini, Mrs Walter, Miss Story

Event Comment: By Desire. Daily Advertiser, 23 Dec.: On Saturday night last, at Covent Garden Playhouse, one William Wright, a young Man, who was in the Shilling Gallery, disapproving of Signora Domitilla's Dancing between the second the Third Acts, was without any Provocation, kick'd, beat, and abus'd etc

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Les Savoyards-Villeneuve, Sga Domitilla; La Provencale, as17421105