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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Signora Violante"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Signora Violante")') 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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756 results for: Keyword - Signora Violante
We found 481 matches on Performance Comments, 199 matches on Performance Title, 136 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

676
23 April 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Galerati. With several Songs alter'd. Admission as 23 Oct. 1714. By Command. Weekly Journal, 30 April: His Majesty was incognito...at Lucius Verus...as were the Prince and Princess of Wales, who went publickly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

677
30 April 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Vico. By Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

678
15 March 1716 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Isabella Aubert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; the Instrumental-Castraccio lately arriv'd from Rome

679
09 May 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Elizabetta Pilotti Schiavonetti, Servant to Her Royal Highness. By Command. Admission as 1 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

680
06 June 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Elene Croce. By Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleartes

681
13 June 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Elena Croce. By Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleartes

682
02 May 1717 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Elizabetta Pilotti. By Command. Admission as 8 Dec. 1716

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

683
25 April 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Mons. At 7 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

684
17 March 1724 @ King's Theatre

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

Cast
Role: With an Addition of an English Cantata in Praise o Actor: the Words of which will be delivered at the Door.

685
05 February 1726 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Performance Comment: Announced but deferred by indisposition of Signora Cuzzoni.

686
09 February 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Benefit Signora Diana. By $His Majesty's Command

Performances

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

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687
16 February 1727 @ King's Theatre

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

Cast
Role: With the Prologue Actor: the Infernal Deities.

Song: Singing-

Dance: Dancing After their different Manner-

688
07 March 1727 @ King's Theatre

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

689
18 March 1727 @ King's Theatre

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

690
15 April 1727 @ King's Theatre

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

691
11 June 1728 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

Performance Comment: Announced but deferred by illness of Signora Faustina.

692
21 March 1730 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora StradadelPo. By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

693
03 March 1733 @ King's Theatre

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

694
15 June 1733 @ Hickford's Room

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

695
28 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arbaces

696
01 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

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

697
25 January 1737 @ King's Theatre

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.

698
19 February 1737 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrius

Afterpiece Title: Grullo and Moschetta

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

699
26 March 1737 @ King's Theatre

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).

700
25 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

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

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