Sweet Bird ()

Composer
George Frederic Handel
Work Type
N/A
Genre
Song
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
£4,304 18s 6d £3,426 18s 6d (79.6%) £878 (20.4%)
1732 - 1809
£4,304 18s 6d - (100%) £3,426 18s 6d (79.6%) £878 (20.4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
18 10 8
1732 - 1809
18 10 8
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
26 Jan 1789 Covent Garden Inkle And Yarico, Marian, Negro Dance, Sweet Bird No No Yes £419 16s 6d 54% N/A
04 Apr 1789 Covent Garden Marian, The Pharo Table, The Highland Reel, Sweet Bird No No Yes £345 13s 52% N/A
06 May 1789 Covent Garden Inkle And Yarico, The Quaker, Negro Dance, Sweet Bird No No Yes £314 18s 6d 65% N/A
02 Jun 1790 Covent Garden Hamlet, Marian, Mad Bess, Sweet Bird No No Yes £351 9s 6d N/A N/A
28 Feb 1792 Covent Garden Orpheus And Eurydice, Rosina, Sweet Bird No No Yes £371 15s 48% N/A
25 Apr 1792 Covent Garden Inkle And Yarico, The Follies of a Day, Negro Dance, Charmante Petite Fille, Divertisement, Sweet Bird No No Yes £334 4s 6d 38% N/A
28 May 1792 Covent Garden Inkle And Yarico, The Irishman in London, The Wapping Landlady, If You Travel the Wide World All Over (A Planxty, Discriptive of Ireland), Black Eyed Susan, Can a Lover Pleasure Find, Sweet Bird No No Yes £385 13s N/A N/A
15 Apr 1796 Covent Garden Inkle And Yarico, Three Weeks after Marriage, The Point at Herqui or British Bravery Triumphant, Negro Dance, Sweet Bird, Admiral Benbow, Irish Song, Loyal Song, Rondo, Rule Britannia, The Mid Watch, The Waiter, Tippy Bob, Ye Gentlemen of England No No Yes £384 11s 6d 42% N/A
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