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1104 results for: Keyword - Their Majesties
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.

276
13 January 1733 @ King's Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ptolemy

277
25 January 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Majesties' Command. Pit and Front Boxes put together at 5s. [For an account of this performance, see Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 156-57. Mrs Theophilus Cibber died on this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Cast
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Porter, the first time of her appearing on the stage these two years
Role: Essex Actor: Mills
Role: Southampton Actor: Wm. Mills
Role: Burleigh Actor: Roberts
Role: Rutland Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Nottingham Actor: Mrs Butler.

Dance: Essex, Haughton, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson

278
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

Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Senesino
Role: Angelica Actor: Signora Strada
Role: Medoro Actor: Signora Bertolli
Role: Dorinda Actor: Signora Celeste
Role: Zoroastro Actor: Montagnana.

279
31 January 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: As it was perform'd last Week before their Majesties and all the Royal Family for the Benefit of Mrs Porter. The Judgment of Paris, which was intended to be perform'd this Night, is deferr'd for a few Days, upon Account of some Alterations in the Machinery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Cast
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Porter.

Afterpiece Title: The Boarding School Romps

Dance: Houghton, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson

280
06 February 1733 @ King's Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

281
20 February 1733 @ King's Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

282
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

283
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

Cast
Role: Wherein Principal Parts Actor: Signor Senosini, Signora Strada, Signora Gismundi, Signora Bertoldi, Signor Montagnana, Miss Young, Miss Arne, Mrs Wright, Mr Swartzs

284
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

285
24 April 1733 @ King's Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

286
01 May 1733 @ King's Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orlando

287
07 May 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Arrigoni, St.Martini, Fratelli, Castrucci, Carbonelli; several Solos on Violoncello-Lancetti

Cast
Role: several Solos on Violoncello Actor: Lancetti.

288
22 May 1733 @ King's Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

289
30 October 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Pit and Boxes by tickets at half a guinea. Gallery $s. At 6 P.M. [Their Majesties and the Royal Family present. Composer and librettist not known.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Cast
Role: : Semiramis Actor: Signora Margherita Durastante
Role: Thamyris Actor: Signora Anna Strada Del Po
Role: Scitalche Actor: Giovanni Carestino
Role: Myrteus Actor: Carlo Scalzi
Role: Ircanus Actor: Signora Maria Catterina Negri
Role: Sibaris Actor: Signora Maria Rosa Negri

290
13 November 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Princess Royal's Marriage, being deferr'd, the Opera will be perform'd that Day as usual. Daily Courant, 14 Nov.: Last Night their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the three eldest Princesses . . . saw . . . Otho; but his Highness the Prince of Orange was not there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Cast
Role: : Otho Actor: Giovanni Carestino
Role: Theophane Actor: Signora Strada
Role: Gismonda Actor: Signora Margherita Durastante
Role: Adelberto Actor: Carlo Scalzi
Role: Matilda Actor: Signora Maria Catterina Negri
Role: Emireno Actor: Waltz

291
20 November 1733 @ King's Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

292
05 January 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Recitatives by Handel. Apparently not published, and Deutsch, Handel, p. 342, gives no cast. Their Majesties and three eldest Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arbaces

293
12 January 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Duke, and three eldest Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arbaces

294
29 January 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Their Majesties and three eldest Princesses present. Egmont also present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

295
12 February 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, and three eldest Princesses present. Egmont also present. For a satiric pamphlet on opera, see Harmony in an Uproar, dated 12 Feb.; much of it is reprinted in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 344-57.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

296
19 February 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Their Majesties and the Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

297
05 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince of Orange, and rest of Royal Family present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

298
07 March 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Majesties' Command. Pit and Front Boxes put together at 51. [Duke, Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens

Cast
Role: Queen Elizabeth Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Queen Mary Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Norfolk Actor: Marshall
Role: Davison Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Morton Actor: Hewitt
Role: Cecil Actor: Roberts
Role: Giffard Actor: Turbutt
Role: Douglass Actor: Miss Hollyday

Dance: La Badine by Lally, Mlle Grognet, S. Lally, Le Brun, Davenport, Olbeldiston, Mrs Walter, Mrs D'Lorme, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Davenport (with new Habits)

299
12 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Their Majesties, three eldest Princesses, and Prince of Orange present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

300
13 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Serenata. Being an Essay of several different Sorts of Harmony.[Music by Handel. Done into English by George Oldmixon.] Daily Advertiser, 14 March: Last Night Mr Handell's new Serenata, in Honour of the Princess Royal's Nuptials with the Prince of Orange, was perform'd before their Majesties, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Orange, and all the Royal Family, and was received with the greatest Applause; the Piece containing the most exquisite Harmony ever furnish'd from the Stage, and the Disposition of the Performers being contriv'd in a very grand and magnificent Manner. [The marriage of the Prince of Orange and Royal Princess occurred on Thursday, 14 March.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa; Or, Apollo And The Muses Celebrating The Nuptials Of Thetis And Peleus

Cast
Role: : Apollo Actor: Carestini
Role: Orfeo Actor: Scalzi
Role: Clio Actor: Signora Strada
Role: Calliope Actor: Signora Durastanti
Role: Cloride Actor: Signora Maria Caterina Negri
Role: Euterpe Actor: Signora Rosa Negri
Role: Proteo Actor: Waltz