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1209 results for: Keyword - Their Sacred Majesties
We found 1082 matches on Event Comments, 105 matches on Performance Title, 54 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

851
04 November 1777 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera; the Music by Paisiello [and "other eminent Composers" (libretto)]; under the Direction of Giordani. With magnificent new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations, both for the Opera and Dances. Tickets will be delivered at the Office, Union Court, Haymarket, at Half a Guinea each. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. By Their Majesties' Command no Person can be admitted behind the Scenes. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin exactly at 7:00 [same throughout season]. The Coffee Room will be open with Tea, Coffee, Lemonade, Orgeat, Ice, Creams, &c. which will be furished by Weltje, of St. James's Street. To prevent Inconvenience to the Nobility and Gentry in getting to their Carriages, they are respectfully intreated to give positive Orders to their Servants to set down and take up with their Horses Heads towards Pall-mall. The Door in Market Lane for Chairs only. [Public Advertiser, 13 Feb. 1778, prints a letter outlining a scheme-never realized-of having occasional plays at king's on non-opera nights acted by performers from both dl and cg, and by "the young Nobility of both Sexes."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Due Contesse

Dance: WithNew Dances composed by Simonet-; End I: new ballet, demi-caractere Le Devin du Village-Mons and Mlle Banti, Sg and Sga Zuchelli Colin-Banti; +Colette-Mlle Banti; End II: +New BalletSerious and Demi-caractere-; in which a Pas de Quatre-Mons and Mme Simonet, Mons and Mlle Banti; to conclude with the Chaconne of Froquett-; End Opera: new serious ballet La Polonaise Favourite-Mons Simonet, Mme Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet

852
03 January 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creso

Dance: End I: La Polonaise Favourite, as17771104; End II: Le Devin du Village, as17771104; End Opera: Serious Ballet, as17771209

853
07 January 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #291 17s. (279.7.0; 12.5.6; 0.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Comus

854
14 January 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #287 7s. (286.14; 0.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771229

855
21 January 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #278 19s. 6d. (269.7.0; 9.12.6; 0.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: As17771009

856
28 January 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #282 9s. (281.1; 1.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: End III: The Garden of Love-Dagueville, Sga Tinte; End IV: a new Dance, The Cricketters-Aldridge, Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Besford, Miss Nichols, Miss Valois

857
11 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #255 17s. (239.17.0; 15.15.6; 0.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End III: As17780128

858
18 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #253 2s. (251.12.6; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End III: As17771222

859
25 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #273 10s. (264.17.0; 8.6.6; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: As17771014

860
06 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season. Mrs Farrell's cantata is identified in London Chronicle, 9 Mar.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: Dryden's Ode

Song: Between: As there are very few songs in Acis and Galatea that can be adapted for Mrs Farrell's voice, she will sing a cantata The rosy morn with crimson dye=-Mrs Farrell

Music: End Part I: concerto on the organ-Stanley; End Part II: concerto on the violin-probably Linley Jun

861
09 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #282 11s. (280.11.6; 1.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End: a new dance, All in the Downs or Farewell to Deal-Aldridge, Master Jackson, Besford, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

862
13 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Il Penseroso; Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems; Acis and Galatea

Music: End Part II: concerto on the violin, as17780306

863
20 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus; Acis And Galatea

Music: As17780311

864
27 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems

Song: Between acts oratorio: Verdi Rale [i.e. Prati] (a favourite song of Handel's)-Mrs Farrell

Music: As17780306

865
03 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast; Joshua; Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: St

Music: As17780306

866
10 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Account-Book, 22 Apr.: Received from Stanley & Co. Oratorio Acct. #334 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17780306

867
11 April 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Clemenza Di Scipione

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17780207; End II: La Serenade Interrompuee, as17780224; End Opera: Les Amans unis par l'Hymen, as17780404

868
13 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #247 14s. 6d. [234.15.0; 12.11.0; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: End I: Minuet de la Cour, as17780508; End IV: Rural Grace, as17780113

869
25 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The last time of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 26 May: Received of Their Majesties for this season #40. Receipts: #183 13s. (after-money not listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771229

870
10 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Afterpiece [1st time; INT 1, by Horace Walpole. Text 1st Published in Walpole's Works, vol. II (G. G. and J. Robinson and J. Edwards, 1798)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail: A Dramatic Proverb

Dance: As17780518

871
24 June 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End: Tambourine Dance-Master and Miss Byrn

872
11 September 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17780624

873
24 November 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera. The music entirely new by Sacchini. With entire new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations both for the Opera and Dances. Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. By Their Majesties' Command, no person can be admitted behind the Scenes. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [see 5 June 1779]. To prevent Inconvenience to the Nobility and Gentry in getting to their Carriages they are respectfully intreated to give positive orders to their Servants to set down and take up with their Horses Heads towards Pall-mall. The door in Market Lane for Chairs only. Public Advertiser, 31 Oct.: To prevent mistakes Ladies who have not honoured the Director with the names of the Subscribers to their Boxes are particularly requested to send them as early as possible to Johnson, at the Office of the Theatre, in order to [permit] their Tickets being engraved. The Renters' Shares proposed to be granted on this Theatre are now made out, and particulars prepared, at Messrs Wallis and Parker's, Norfolk-street, Strand, who are impowered by the Proprietors to dispose in single Shares of those which remain unsubscribed for. The annual Subscriptions are receiving by Johnson at the Office of the Theatre in Union-court, Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'avaro Deluso

Dance: With new Dances composed by Simonet. End II: La Noche Hollandoise-Banti, Zuchelli, Slingsby, Sga Zuchelli, Sga Tinti; End Opera: a new grand Serious Ballet, Les Nymphes de Diane; ou, L'Amour Faune-Mons Simonet, Mme Simonet, Banti, Sga Tinti

Ballet: End I: new Pantomime Ballet Annette et Lubin. Bailly-LeDet; Sig. du Village-Simonet; Lubin-Slingsby; Annette-Mme Simonet; unassigned-Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli

874
27 November 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Dance: End I: The Embarkment for Cytherea, as17781125, but Master _Dagueville, Langrish; End: +The Villagers-Aldridge, Langrish, Mast. Jackson, Miss Valois

875
12 December 1778 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

Dance: As17781128

Ballet: Annette et Lubin. As17781128