Seven nights a week the huge lights in St. Louis' Forest Park flash on, flooding the park with a blinding glarethe signal to the audience that the show is over. One night next week when the lights blaze, about 12,000 Municipal Opera fans will rise to 'their feet and roar out Auld Lang Syne with the cast, as they have regularly at the close of St. Louis' summer operetta seasons since 1919.
As they make their way out of their leafy open-air theater, St. Louisans can be comfortably proud of their Municipal Opera, which is...
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