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1272 results for: Keyword - The Princesses
We found 775 matches on Event Comments, 359 matches on Roles/Actors, 156 matches on Performance Title, 87 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

801
30 December 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, Duke, and Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander

802
03 January 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: As 26 Dec. 1732. Receipts, #79 16s. 6d. [Prince and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: As17321228

803
13 January 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy

804
23 January 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. Receipts: #119 0s. 6d. [Their Majesties, Duke, Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary, Louisa present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers

Dance: II: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; III: New Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre, Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Newhouse, Miss Latour, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden, LeSac, Miss Baston; IV: A new Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, DuPre, Mrs Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

805
27 January 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Wherein the Cloaths and Scenes are all intirely New. [Music by Handel. Text possibly by Grazio Braccioli, but see Deutsch, Handel, p. 303.] Done into English by Mr Humphreys. [Their Majesties, Duke, and Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

806
06 February 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

807
20 February 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

808
22 February 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. Benefit the late Mr Wilks's Widow. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Part of the Seats on the Stage (for the better Accommodation of the Ladies) will be form'd into Side-Boxes. Part of the Pit (by Desire) will be rail'd in at the Price of the Boxes. [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present. The Epilogue is in Weekly Miscellany, 10 March 1733.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Dance: Denoyer, Mrs Booth, Miss Robinson, Mrs Walter

809
27 February 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDuke, Princesses Amelia, Mary, and Louisa present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

810
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

811
05 March 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal. Benefit Mills. Daily Post, 5 March: Colley Cibber...is so ill of a Cold he is not able to Act. Daily Advertiser, 7 March: On Monday Night last a great Disorder happen'd amongst the Footmen at [dl], occasion'd by one of the Orange Women, who meeting with some Affront, as she was passing from the Theatre to the Coffeehouse, drew out her Penknife, and stabb'd a Chairman and two Gentlemen's Servants therewith, before it could be wrench'd from her, and then took Sanctuary in the Coffee-house; but the same was immediately beset, and the People refusing either to produce the Woman, or acquaint the Footmen who she was, they forc'd themselves into the Room, broke all the Glasses and China

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: Denoyer, Mrs Booth, Essex, Miss Robinson, Haughton, Mrs Walter

812
17 March 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. A New Oratorio in English. Composed by Mr Handel. And to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. The House to be fitted up and illuminated in a new and particular manner. Tickets One Guinea. Gallery Half a Guinea. [Text by Samuel Humphreys. Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] Daily Advertiser, 20 March: An Entertainment, perhaps, the most magnificent that has ever been exhibited on an English Theatre....The Composition of the Musick is by no means inferior to the most finish'd of that Gentleman's Works; but the Disposition of the Performers was in a Taste beyond what has been attempted. There was a very great Number of Instruments by the best Hands, and such as would properly accompany three Organs. The Pit and Orchestre were cover'd as at an Assembly, and the whole House Illuminated in a new and most beautiful manner. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Performance Comment: Edition of 1733 does not list performers' names, but Daily Advertiser, 20 March, states: Wherein Principal Parts-Signor Senosini, Signora Strada, Signora Gismundi, Signora Bertoldi, Signor Montagnana, Miss Young, Miss Arne, Mrs Wright, Mr Swartzs[, perform'd the principal Parts. [See also Deutsch, Handel, p. 308, and Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 236.], perform'd the principal Parts. [See also Deutsch, Handel, p. 308, and Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 236.]

813
27 March 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 28 March: Their Majesties, together with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses were again...to see Deborah...at which was likewise present one of the most numerous Audiences of Nobility and Persons of Distinction that has been ever seen in any Theatre. Egmont, Diary, I, 345: It was very magnificent, near a hundred performers, among whom about twenty-five singers. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

814
31 March 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [K$King, Queen, Prince, three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

815
10 April 1733 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

816
24 April 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

817
01 May 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

818
22 May 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: At 6:30 p.m. [Their Majesties and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

819
29 May 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$The King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

820
04 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. Set to Musick after the Italian Manner. The Habits and Decorations entirely New. 5s., 3s., 2s. 7 p.m. [The Duke and the Princess Amelia present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Entertainment: TThe Crowing of the Cock-a Gentleman for his Diversion

Dance: new dance (by Dew dance (by Desire)-Jones to the 5th Concerto of Vivaldi, which he accompanies himself upon the Violin, the first time of his performing it in public

821
05 June 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$The King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

822
08 June 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: As 4 June. [The two youngest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Dance: As17330604

823
09 June 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [P$Princess Royal and Princess Amelia present.] Daily Advertiser, 11 June: After the Performance was over, Signor Senesino made his Leave of the Audience, in a short Speech, acquainting them, as he said, with Regret 'That he had now perform'd his last Part on that Stage, and was henceforward discharg'd from any Engagement.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

824
27 October 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. [Their Majesties, Duke, and all the Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Cast
Role: Ladies of Pleasure Actor: Mrs Anderson, Miss Atherton, Mrs De Lorme
Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun

825
06 November 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: King, Queen, three eldest Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis