The match query analyzes your text (usind the standard analyzer by 
default). I'm assuming you're using an ES version prior to 1.0, in which 
case the standard analyzer will remove "the" as a stopword. You can easily 
verify this by overriding the analyzer in your query like for example:

{
  "explain": true,
  "query": {
    "match_phrase": {
      "PERFORMER": {
        "query": "the house",
        "operator": "and",
        "analyzer": "whitespace"
      }
    }
  }
}

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