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Two grand opera companies in Chicago have gone by the name Chicago Grand Opera Company
The first Chicago Grand Opera Company produced four seasons of opera in Chicago’s Auditorium Theater from 1910 to 1913. It was the first resident Chicago opera company.
The second Chicago Grand Opera Company was an attempt to keep opera going in Chicago after the collapse of the Chicago Civic Opera in 1932. It produced three seasons of opera at the Civic Opera House from 1933 to 1935 before it too succumbed to financial difficulties. It was succeeded by the Chicago City Opera Company.
[edit] Sources
- Davis, Ronald L., Opera in Chicago, Appleton, New York City, 1966.
- Marsh, Robert C. and Norman Pellegrini, 150 Years of Opera in Chicago, Northern Illinois University Press, Chicago 2006.
