Word: chamounix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then the Chicago Civic Opera Company packed up its costumes and picked up its skirts for a pilgrimage through the south to the Pacific. Reviewing the home season, Chicago operaddicts agreed that it had been in no way notable for novelties and revivals. Monna Vanna, Sapho, Linda Di Chamounix, doubtful additions to the repertoire, had apparently displaced proved productions of Der Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, Pelleas. The new ballet had cavorted around in better style than the old one; but there had been an orchestral slump, in part produced by the new sunken pit. In the business offices, there...
...regular subscription series Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday evenings and Saturday matinees, a new series of twelve Sunday matinees and six or seven Friday night performances. No new operas have been announced, but there will be several revivals: La Navarraise (Rosa Raisa), Monna Vanna and Sapho (Mary Garden), Linda di Chamounix (Toti Dal Monte and Tito Schipa), Loreley (Claudia Muzio). New singers are Eleanor Elderkin, Olga Kargau, Leone Kruse, Lucille Meusel, Delia Samoiloff, sopranos; Elinor Mario, contralto; John Sample, tenor; Eugenic Sandrini, Heinrich Schlusnus, Robert Ringling (son of the late circus proprietor Charles Ringling), baritones; Chase Baromeo, bass. Maria Yurieva...