A Grand Sacred Selection of Music/Sacred Music (1789)

Composer
George Frederic Handel
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Oratorio
Performance Medium
Musical
Associated work receipts The physical apparatus employed on and around the stage to support, enhance and sometimes substitute the performers' enactment of drama.
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
£4,685 15s 6d £493 4s (10.5%) £4,192 11s 6d (89.5%)
1732 - 1809
£4,685 15s 6d - (100%) £493 4s (10.5%) £4,192 11s 6d (89.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
118 92 26
1732 - 1809
118 92 26
Notes
Selections of music/sacred music primarily composed by Handel although there are very occasionally pieces from other composers included. These performances are associated with the Handel Commemorations 1784-91.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
11 Mar 1791 Covent Garden A Grand Selection of Sacred Music No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Mar 1791 Drury Lane A Grand Selection From The Works of Handel No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Mar 1791 Covent Garden A Second Grand Selection of Sacred Music No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Mar 1791 Drury Lane A Grand Selection From The Works of Handel No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Apr 1791 Drury Lane Acis And Galatea, Concerto on hautboy, Concerto on violin, Grand Selection No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Apr 1791 Covent Garden A Grand Selection of Sacred Music, Concerto on violin No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Apr 1791 Drury Lane Esther, A New Selection, Israel In Egypt No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Mar 1792 Covent Garden The First Grand Selection of Sacred Music from the Works of Handel No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Mar 1792 Covent Garden A Second Grand Selection of Sacred Music No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Mar 1792 Drury Lane A Grand Selection No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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