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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.

151
22 October 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Infernal Spirit-Leveridge; Furies-Haughton, Villeneuve, Richardson, Delagarde, Dupre; Helen-Mrs Lampe; Shade of Leander-Salway; Shade of Hero-Miss Young; Miller-Bencraft; Miller's Wife-Miss Oates; Doctor's Man-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Furies Actor: Haughton, Villeneuve, Richardson, Delagarde, Dupre

152
21 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Chapman; Johnson-Ryan; Smith-Cashell; First King of Brentford-Roberts; Prince Prettyman-Hale; Gentleman Usher-Hippisley; Second King of Brentford-Harrington; Prince Volscius-Gibson; Physician-Rosco; Drawcansir-Mullart; General-Stephens; Lieut General-Stevens; Lord Mayor-Marten; Tom Thimble-James; Thunder-Bridgwater; Lightening-Mrs Villeneuve; Sun-Bencraft; Moon-Leveridge; Earth-Salway; Amarillis-Miss Burgess; Chloris-Mrs Mullart; Pallas-Woodward; Two Sing@Song Dancing Spirits-Mrs Lampe, Miss Young; Players, Soldiers horse and foot, Cardinals, Judges, Sargeant at Arms-the rest of the comedians; With the Music-; Songs-; Dances-; Scenes, Machines, Habits, other Decoration proper to the play; With the Additional Reinforcements of Mr Bayes's New Rais'd Troops-.
Cast
Role: Lightening Actor: Mrs Villeneuve

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: 2nd Fury Actor: Villeneuve

153
06 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royal-Beard; Mercury-Leveridge; Diana-Miss Hillyard; Aerial Spirits-Cooke, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, Mlle Fabres, Mrs Lebrun, Mrs Villeneuve; Jupiter (Harlequin)-Woodward; Mercury-Reinhold; Doctor-Bencraft; Columbine-Mlle Bonnevile; Pierrot-Lalauze.
Cast
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Cooke, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, Mlle Fabres, Mrs Lebrun, Mrs Villeneuve

154
31 October 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar: With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: The Neocromancer; or, Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Infernal Spirit-Leveridge; Furies-Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade; Shade of Leander-Beard; Shade of Hero-Mrs Lampe; Miller-Bencraft; Miller's wife-Mrs Delagarde; Doctor's Man-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Furies Actor: Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade

155
14 January 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Quin; Elder Brother-Ryan; Young Brother-Cashell; 1st Spirit-Hale; 2nd Spirit-Ridout; Lady-Mrs Pritchard; The Vocal Parts: Euphrosyne-Mrs Clive; Bacchanal-Beard; Sabrina-Mrs Lampe; Attendant Spirits on Comus-Leveridge, Reinhold, Messing, Roberts, Thompson, Mrs Wright; The Dance proper to the masque-Cooke, LaLauze, Picq, Sga Campioni, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Duval, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Ozanne.
Cast
Role: The Dance proper to the masque Actor: Cooke, LaLauze, Picq, Sga Campioni, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Duval, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Ozanne.

156
25 January 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Performance Comment: Pyramus-Beard; Lyon-Reinhold; Wall-Laguerre; Moonshine-Roberts; Thisbe-Mrs Lampe [edition of 1745]; The Dances-Cooke, LaLauze, Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Duval (General Advertiser).
Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Cooke, LaLauze, Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Duval

157
16 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Performance Comment: As17450927, but Dances-Cooke, Picq, Villeneuve.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Cooke, Picq, Villeneuve.

Song: As17451014

158
26 September 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Lowe 1st appearance on that stage; Peachum-Arthur; Lockit-Dunstall; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Dunstall; Lucy-Miss Young; Player-Anderson; Beggar-Paddick; Mat@o@Mint-Stoppelaer; Ben Budge-Bencraft; Filch-Cushing; Wat Dreary-Smith; Jemmy Twitcher-Paget; Drawer-Bennet; Jenny Diver-Miss Allen; Mrs Coaxer-Miss Ferguson; Dolly Trull-Miss Copen; Sukey Tawdry-Mrs Vallois; Mrs Slammekin-Miss Hippisley; Mrs Vixen-Miss Haughton; Molly Brazen-Miss Morrison; Betty Doxy-Mrs Villeneuve; Polly-Miss Faulkner; With Hornpipe-Oates; a Country Dance-the characters of the opera.
Cast
Role: Betty Doxy Actor: Mrs Villeneuve

159
23 November 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

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

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

160
22 September 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Villeneuve, Miss Oates

161
27 September 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Villeneuve, Miss Oates

162
29 August 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Villeneuve, Miss Oates

163
07 September 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Villeneuve, Desse, Miss Oates

164
10 September 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Villeneuve, Desse, Miss Oates; In III: Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates

165
09 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Old Man Taught Wisdom

Song: By Desire, Arrah my Judy-Stoppelaer

Dance: Villeneuve, Dumont, Richardson, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, DeVaul

166
30 September 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

167
17 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone; Or, The Fox

Dance: Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

168
15 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: Villeneuve, Madem. Contair, her 1st appearance on the English Stage

169
23 October 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Cast
Role: Mezzetin Actor: Villeneuve

Dance: III: Revellers, as17340910 IV: Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze, the first time of his appearance on that stage

170
25 October 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Cast
Role: Mezzetin Actor: Villeneuve

Dance: IV: Les Bergeries by Essex, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Pelling, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

Song: In II: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond by Mrs Cibber

171
26 October 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Cast
Role: Mezzetin Actor: Villeneuve

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: III: La Follette s

172
07 February 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Cast
Role: Les Capricieux Actor: Villeneuve, Mrs Walter

173
08 February 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Cast
Role: Les Capricieux Actor: Villeneuve, Mrs Walter

174
18 March 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus

Cast
Role: Attendants on Apollo Actor: Villeneuve, Livier, Davenport

175
08 April 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus

Cast
Role: Attendants on Apollo Actor: Villeneuve, Livier, Davenport