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Boris Godunov, with the Russian, Feodor Chaliapin, in the title role, will open the Chicago opera season on Thursday, Nov. 8.
This and L'Africaine are the season's novelties. Mary Garden will also revive Massenet's Cleopatre. One opera in English, Theodore Stearns' Snow Bird, is included in the general repertoire, which is predominantly French and Italian.
The Chicago Civic Opera Company is the descendant of the old Chicago Opera Company which gave New York's Metropolitan such a hard fight several years...
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