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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Villeneuve"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Villeneuve")') 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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1290 results for: Keyword - Villeneuve
We found 2028 matches on Roles/Actors, 342 matches on Performance Title, 184 matches on Performance Comments, 21 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

76
08 January 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Perseus-Salway; Cepheus-Leveridge; Aethiopian-Thompson; Cassiope-Mrs Wright; Andromeda-Miss Hillyard; Mercury-Reinhold; Infernals-Villeneuve, Dumont, Richardson, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade; Harlequin-Woodward; Hussar-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Petit Maitre-Dugrande; Hussar's Servant-Hippisley; Valet de Chambre-James; Concluding with the Grand Dance in Momus-.
Cast
Role: Infernals Actor: Villeneuve, Dumont, Richardson, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade

77
20 May 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Aerial Spirits-Villeneuve, Mlle Auguste; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Doctor-Bencraft; Pierot-Lalauze.
Cast
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Villeneuve, Mlle Auguste

Dance: Cooke, the Aurettis

78
26 September 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Sir Wilful-Hippisley; Mirable-Ryan; Witwou'd-Chapman; Petulant-Woodward; Fainall-Hall; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Stevens; Marwood-Mrs Woodward; Waitwell-Rosco; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Mullart; Foible-Mrs Kilby; Mincing-Mrs Vincent; Millamant-Mrs Horton; With entertainments of dancing proper to the play,-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde.
Cast
Role: With entertainments of dancing proper to the play, Actor: Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde.

79
20 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royal-Beard; Merlin-Leveridge; Diana-Miss Hillyard; Aerial Spirits-Picq, Mlle Domitilla, Mrs Delagarde, Mlle Fabres, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs LeFont; Jupiter (Harlequin)-Woodward; Mercury-Reinhold; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mlle Bonneval; Pluto (Punch)-Lamound; Neptune (Pantalon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Destrade; Hercules (Brighella)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Picq; Pierrot-Lalauze.
Cast
Role: Apollo Actor: Villeneuve

80
13 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17431227, but Apollo-Villeneuve; Aerial Spirits-Mrs _Delagarde.
Cast
Role: Apollo Actor: Villeneuve

81
15 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17440228, but Aerial Spirits-Villeneuve, _Picq, Mrs +Delagarde, Mlle _Domitilla.
Cast
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Villeneuve, _Picq, Mrs +Delagarde, Mlle _Domitilla.
Role: Apollo Actor: Villeneuve

Song: (BBy Desire) To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

82
14 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17440211, but Demons-_Villeneuve; Air-_; Old Woman-Mrs Delagarde; Colombine-Mlle Bonneval; Fire-Mrs Delagarde.
Cast
Role: Demons Actor: _Villeneuve
Role: Followers of Proserpine Actor: Mlle Domitilla, Mrs Fabres, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mlle LeFont
Role: Country Lads and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Destrade, Delagarde, Miss Jackson, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Norman
Role: Air Actor: Villeneuve, Mrs Fabres

83
21 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performance Comment: As17431226, but Shade of Hero-Mrs Lampe; 2nd Fury-Villeneuve.
Cast
Role: 2nd Fury Actor: Villeneuve.

84
24 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Villeneuve, Bencraft, Delagarde

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Demons Actor: _Villeneuve
Role: Followers of Proserpine Actor: Mlle Domitilla, Mrs Fabres, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mlle LeFont
Role: Country Lads and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Destrade, Delagarde, Miss Jackson, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Norman
Role: Air Actor: Villeneuve, Mrs Fabres

Dance: SScotch Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; Louvre, Minuet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

Song: A Cantata-Beard

85
19 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Villeneuve, Mrs Kilby, Miss Hippisley, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady's Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Demons Actor: Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde
Role: Country Lads Actor: Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17441012; Louvre, Minuet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

86
29 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royale-Beard; Merlin-Leveridge; Aerial Spirits-Cooke; Jupiter Harlequin-Woodward; Mercury-Reinhold; Doctor-Bencraft; Columbine-Mrs Havard; Pierrot-Lalauze; Pluto (Punch)-Rector; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Destrade; Hercules (Brighella)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Picq.
Cast
Role: Apollo Actor: Villeneuve

87
23 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: Orpheus-Beard; Rhodope-Mrs Lampe; Eurydice-A Young Gentlewoman who never appeared on any stage before; 1st Nymph, follower of Eurydice-Sga Campioni; Harlequin-Woodward; Colombine-Mrs Havard; Pantaloon-Arthur; Squire Gawky-Bencraft; Mrs Mannerly-Mrs Martin; Goody Gurton-Marten; Drudge (servant to Pantaloon)-Hippisley; Woman Dwarf-a French Boy; Country Lads-Villeneuve, Destrade, Delagarde, Dupre; Country Lasses-Mrs Duval, Mrs Phillips, Mrs LeBrun; Mrs Gondau; Rural Swain-Cooke; Nymph-Sga Campioni.
Cast
Role: Country Lads Actor: Villeneuve, Destrade, Delagarde, Dupre

88
26 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: As17451125, but Country Lasses-Mrs Vaughn, Mrs +Villeneuve, Miss _Vandersluys, Mrs _Phillips.
Cast
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs Vaughn, Mrs +Villeneuve, Miss _Vandersluys, Mrs _Phillips.
Role: Country Lads Actor: Villeneuve, Destrade, Delagarde, Dupre

89
27 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17451129, but 3rd Follower-Mrs Phillips; Country Lads-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade; Country Lasses-Miss Vandersluys, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Phillips, Mrs Gondou; Rural Nymph-Signora Campioni; [rest of bill missing]. [rest of bill missing].
Cast
Role: Country Lads Actor: Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade
Role: 4th Follower Actor: Mrs Villeneuve
Role: Demons Actor: Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade
Role: Air Actor: Villeneuve, Miss Vandersluys

90
17 April 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Loves of Mars and Venus

Performance Comment: Mars-Cooke; Followers-Villeneuve, DuPre, Destrade, Vandersluys; Venus-Sga Campioni; The Graces-Miss Vandersluys, Mrs Gondou, Mrs Vaughan; Vulcan-Essex; Bacchus-Sodi; Cyclops-Bencraft, Vaughan, Smith.
Cast
Role: Followers Actor: Villeneuve, DuPre, Destrade, Vandersluys

Dance: II: Pigmalion-Cooke, Signora Campioni; III: The Revellers-Essex, Miss Vandersluys, Sodi

91
19 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace (General Advertiser)

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royale-Beard; Jupiter (Harlequin)-Woodward; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Havard; Pierot-Lalauze; Pluto (Punch)-Rector; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Destrade; Hercules (Brighella)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Desse.
Cast
Role: Apollo Actor: Villeneuve

92
26 March 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Quin; Bacchanal-Beard; Elder Brother-Ryan; Younger Brother-Cashell; 1st Spirit-Havard; 2nd Spirit-Ridout; Euphrosyne-Miss Younge; Sabrina-Mrs Lampe; Lady-Mrs Pritchard; Attendant Spirits of Comus-Leveridge, Roberts, Thompson, Mrs Wright; Dances proper to the masque-Villeneuve, Picq, Sga Campioni.
Cast
Role: Dances proper to the masque Actor: Villeneuve, Picq, Sga Campioni.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

93
29 April 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17470326 but Dances proper to the masque-_Villeneuve.
Cast
Role: Dances proper to the masque Actor: _Villeneuve.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

94
26 December 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royal-Beard; Merlin-Leveridge; Jupiter, in the character of Harlequin-Lun; Pluto (Punch)-Granier; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Vandersluys; Hercules (Brighella)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzetin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Desse; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Dunstall; Pierot-LaLauze.
Cast
Role: Apollo Actor: Villeneuve

95
19 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Villeneuve and Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Cast
Role: Apollo Actor: Villeneuve
Role: Followers of Daphne Actor: Mrs Gondou, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Dumont, Mrs LaFont
Role: Frenchman Actor: Villeneuve
Role: Polonese Actor: Mrs Villeneuve

Song: III: Roberts

Dance: IV: Louvre, Minuet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

96
29 October 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Perseus-Lowe; Cepheus-Waltz; Aethiopian-Baker; Cassiope-Mrs Wright; Mercury-Vincent; Andromeda-Miss Falkner; Amazons-Miss Young, Miss Allen, Miss Ferguson, Miss Hippisley, Miss Morrison; Cyclops-Roberts, Smith, Holtham, Bennet, Davis; Infernals-Villeneuve, Desse, Froment, Delagarde, Dupre, Dumont; Harlequin-Miles; Hussar-Bencraft; Colombine-Miss Haughton; Hussar's Servant-Arthur; Valet de Chambre-Atkins; Petit Maitre-Lalauze; Concluding with the Original Grand Dance-.
Cast
Role: Infernals Actor: Villeneuve, Desse, Froment, Delagarde, Dupre, Dumont

97
30 September 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, the Cheats of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Perseus-Lowe; Cepheus-Howard; Aethiopian-Baker; Cassiope-Miss Young; Mercury-Vincent; Andromeda-Miss Falkner; Amazons-Miss Davis, Miss Allen, Miss Ferguson, Mrs Cushing, Miss Morrison; Cyclops-Roberts, Smith, Bennet, Davis; Infernals-Villeneuve, Desse, Dennison, Gardiner, Christian; Harlequin-Miles; Hussar-Bencraft; Colombine-Miss Haughton; Hussar's Servant-Arthur; Valet-Holtham; Petit Maitre-LaLauze.
Cast
Role: Infernals Actor: Villeneuve, Desse, Dennison, Gardiner, Christian

98
20 December 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performance Comment: As17511120, but Scaramouche-Mr Cointrie who replaces Christian; Scaramouche Woman-Mrs Villeneuve replacing Miss Batchelor.
Cast
Role: Scaramouche Woman Actor: Mrs Villeneuve replacing Miss Batchelor.
Role: Demons in the following characters Actor: Harlequin, Pierrot, Mezzetin-Villeneuve, Gardner, Desse
Role: Mezzetin Actor: Villeneuve, Gardner, Desse

99
10 October 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wive's Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Perseus-Lowe; Cepheus-Howard; Aethiopian-Baker; Cassiope-Miss Young; Mercury-Vincent; Andromeda-Mrs Lampe; Amazons-Miss Davis, Miss Allen, Miss Ferguson, Miss Mullart, Miss Morrison; Cyclops-Roberts, Smith, Courtney, Whitacre; Infernals-Villeneuve, Desse, Gardner, Dennison; Harlequin-Miles; Hussar-Bencraft; Colombine-Miss Haughton; Hussar's Servant-Arthur; Valet de Chambre-Holtom; Petit Martre-LaLauze.
Cast
Role: Infernals Actor: Villeneuve, Desse, Gardner, Dennison

100
29 April 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Villeneuve, I. Delagarde, and Mrs Kilby, Colombine to Orpheus and Eurydice. By Particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: A Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; II: Je ne scay quoy-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Miss Oates; IV: Minuet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland