SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Their Majesties"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Their Majesties")') 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 1049 matches on Event Comments, 31 matches on Performance Comments, 30 matches on Performance Title, 9 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Music: As17620226

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Music: As17620226; Coronation Anthem-set by Handel

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17620226

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Event Comment: Program By Command of their Majesties. Tickets deliver'd for Macbeth, this night, will be taken on Saturday the 15th of May to The Jealous Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King and Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: New Grand Pantomime Ballet, call'dThe Swedish Gardeners, compos'd by Sodi,-Sodi, Miss Wilford, Miss Vallois

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King & Queen (Cross Diary)

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Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: By CommandSga Fiorentini. [The name of the dance unspecified.

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties. King & Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: TThe Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera, music by several celebrated Composers. With new Cloaths, new Decorations, and new Dances. Pit and Boxes put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered that Day, at half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By Their Majesties Command no Persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor into the Orchestra. Gallery, Pit and Boxes will be opened at Five; To begin at 6:30. [Prices, terms of admission, and time repeated in subsequent bills.] Subscription Money to be paid to Andrew Drummond and Co. Bankers, or to Mr Crawford, Treasurer, for Silver t ickets. Signor Giardini the principal serious singer has arrived, and serious opera will begin as soon as possible (Public Advertiser). [Signora Mattei was again the promoter of Operas this season; Crawford the Treasurer.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Tutore E La Pupilla

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: TThe Sicilian Peasants, the man Peasant-Sga Manesiere, the woman by Miss Wilford

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King & Queen (Cros s Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. [This seems to be the night referred to by The Volunteer Manager in Theatrical Review of 1 January 1763 who condemns Miss Poitier's scandalous costume and indelicate actions: "Would any person suppose she could have the confidence to appear with her bosom so scandalously bare, that to use the expression of a public writer, who took some moderate notice of the circumstance, the breast hung flabbing over a pair of stays cut remarkably low, like a couple of empty bladders in an oil-shop. One thing the author of that letter has omitted, which, if possible is still more gross; and that is, in the course of Miss Poitier's hornpipe, one of her shoes happening to slipt down at the heel, she lifted up her leg, and danced upon the other till she had drawn it up. This had she worn drawers, would have been the more excusable; but unhappily, there was little occasion for standing in the pit to see that she was not provided with so much as a fig-leaf. The Court turned instantly from the stage-The Pit was astonished! and scarcely anything, but a disapproving murmur, was heard, from the most unthinking spectator in the twelvepenny gallery." Miss Poitier subsequently denied any impropriety in action, and sought hearing in the Theatrical Review. In the Volunteer Manager" section of the number for 1 March 1763 the editiors reaffirmed their stand on her indecency and refused to join further in a personal altercation.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17621125; Hornpipe-Miss Poitier

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. A new comic Opera...by several...composers. [A general Practice upon the Stage at 11 a.m. 6 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cascina

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King & Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: III: The Irish Lilt, as17621023

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: II: The Dutch Skippers, as17630101

Event Comment: A new comic Opera...By Command of their Majesties. Music-Galuppi. Overture-J. S. Bach. Text-Goldoni. The first performance in England. Deferred from 30 Jan., because of Martyrdom of King Charles I. [A general Practice upon the Stage at noon 28 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Calamita Di Cuori

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties, an Occasional Oratorio "selected from the most celebrated compositions of the late George Frederick Handel." Pit and Boxes to be put together. No person to be admitted without Tickets which will be deliver'd this day at the Office in the Theatre at half a guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at half past Four. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at half after Six. This day Publish'd Price 1s. An Occasional Oratorio, as it is to be performed at Covent Garden...J. and R. Tonson. [The most provocative commentary on Oratorios may be found in [Robert Maddison's] An Examination of the Oratorios performed This Season at Covent Garden, (London, 1763) 63 pages, wherein he seeks to define the genre, then judge the performances in terms of his definition.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Occasional Oratorio

Music: CConcertos on Organ-Stanley; on Violin-Hay

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. A new serious Opera. Music by Bach

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orione, O Sia Diana Vendicata

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Music: As17630218; Handel's Coronation Anthem-

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orione, O Sia Diana Vendicata

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Music: As17630218